Facebook has a mutiny on its hands! It was bad enough when Zuckerberg & Co. created the Feed services, which conveniently notified everyone when you made a new friend or, my favorite, changed relationship status. I actually thought this was pretty great. Generally speaking, I tend to support any kind of technological progress or increase in available information. Besides, anything I did on Facebook was public by definition, so it seemed like a moot point. Still, anti-Feed groups were formed (on Facebook, of course — it turns out it is effective to undermine the system from within!) and Zuckerberg’s “We really messed this one up” made Newsweek. So now you can keep your Feed from displaying really private information, like when you joined that “Sleep Is Awesome” group (displayed on your profile page regardless).

Emboldened by its success, the public has now turned its attention to Facebook’s newest plan to open up to anyone with an email address, based on region. One anti-expansion group has 50,000 members already. Personally, I think it’s an overreaction — if your profile is visible only to your university’s students, the opening of Facebook makes no difference. On the other hand, the very existence of this blog shows that I probably have a lower-than-average fear of some random net-savvy ex-con tracking me down and making a tennis racquet out of my skin. I’m curious to see how Facebook treats this newer, more baseless mutiny, having already taken the mea culpa route on the last one.

Also, I find it very interesting that Mark Zuckerberg has only 391 friends on Facebook, while MySpace’s Tom has some absurd number. Zuckerberg needs a cult of personality!