I know!!! I also hate that static.ak.connect.facebook.com link. Quite often it slows me down for about a minute or so. It's pathetic really. I fail to see why my computer should try to connect with the evil empire (facebook)... as I am not one of their users, and as I really do not want to get involved with them to start with, despite all the hype that some journalists and/or other media whores are trying to create.

Spending so much time behind the Great Firewall, it's easy to find out how some companies/countries are trying to privatize/destroy the web, trying to replace it with private services that are being forced down our throats, even if we never signed up for them. Irrespective of what I think of some of those ridiculous filters (e.g. on wikipedia content) that are being put in place by the mainlan dgovt.

To come back to your comment, all I see in options is :

Is that what you're talking about?? If so, should I check it or uncheck it??

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