Hacker group ‘Anonymous’ has vowed to kill the social networking site, Facebook, citing privacy concern and security violation of user information.

The day (November 5th, 2011) is celebrated as Guy Fawkes Day in Britain as a commemoration of the Gunpowder Plot in which Fawkes placed explosives in the House of Lords in 1605.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

The speaker in the video, invites people to join the cause and kill Facebook for the sake of protecting their own privacy.

“If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill Facebook for the sake of your own privacy,” the speaker added.

Mentioning privacy concerns and Facebook’s ability to store and sell personal information about its users, the group said, “Everything you do on Facebook stays on Facebook regardless of your ‘privacy’ settings, and deleting your account is impossible.”

“Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from around the world,” ‘Anonymous’ said.

One lakh Britons and six million users in the US have shut down their Facebook accounts because of privacy threats and fatigue.

The same pattern is expected to follow in other countries too.

From in.finance.yahoo.com:

Facebook’s growth rate has slowed for a second month in a row, ironically, when the social networking site was aiming to reach its goal of one billion active users.

Canada saw a fall of about 1.5 million users of the website, while in Russia and Norway numbers fell by more than 100,000 users.

The company is now relying on developing countries to boost its numbers.

Blogs are abuzz with speculations that the website could one day ’sputter into oblivion,’ fearing the fate of its failing rival MySpace.

There is a point at which the site can no longer grow, once it has established itself in a country, according to Eric Eldon, from the website ‘Inside Facebook’, which obtained the figures.

“People get terribly excited about something new and after a while the novelty wears off,” said Internet psychologist Graham Jones.