'It's kind of like Facebook, but in person,' a Boston woman says of the camping ground where her friends take holidays. Two San Francisco teens vow to use Facebook just once a month; 'It's like any other addiction,' a psychologist tells the New York Times. A burglar in West Virginia gets caught after checking his Facebook page in the house he broke into. Oxford University Press picks 'unfriend' as 2009's 'word of the year'. The Indian edition of Forbes makes Facebook a candidate - along with 20 human beings - for Indian Person of the Year. Recent changes in Facebook's default privacy settings (which make far more information about its users public) prompt an editorial in the New York Times and a defensive op-ed by Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, in the Washington Post.

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