• The Telegraph, Wednesday, October 19, 2011 12 AM

The Telegraph claims that Facebook “power users” have jumped ship for Google+ and Twitter. It’s evidence? Sean Parker -- the notoriously attention-seeking Napster co-founder and ego-driven Facebook shareholder -- says so. Power users, as defined by Parker, are those who contribute “tones of content to Facebook which is being consumed by everyone else,” as well as “important networkers’ who prop the social network up.”

And why has Facebook driven away all its users of any respectable power level? Not privacy issues, says Parker. Rather, the power crowd loss patience with Facebook over lack of good controls over the information they see and who they share it with.

“I don’t think privacy is an issue,” Parker said this week, as reported by The Telegraph. “That may be controversial, but I don’t think that’s Facebook’s biggest problem. I think Facebook’s biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook’s power users are overwhelmed with… [Facebook] needs to address the need of power users to have more controls.

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