A short message was displayed Facebook users upon logging in, warning them of Facebook's plans to open registrations.

I want to clear up some rumors and ask for your feedback.

Right now a lot of people want their friends to use Facebook, but they can't get on. Soon, we're planning on letting these people register for regional networks.

I know a lot of you are worried about this and how it changes the site. Honestly, it shouldn't change much for you. College networks will remain exclusive to people from those colleges. High school and work networks will remain exclusive as well. Only your friends and other people in your networks can see your profile. This is what makes Facebook different, and we're not changing it.

From reading a lot of your messages, it seems like some of you want more separation. Do you want to be completely invisible to people who aren't in a college or high school? Do you want to make sure they can't message or poke you? We like hearing from you. Please send us your thoughts on how we can make this work for you.

And just to clear some other things up: we're not putting up more banner ads, we're not charging anyone, we're not letting people put random HTML in their profiles, and we're not selling your information. Facebook is about increasing information flow and connecting people, not these things.

Please send us your thoughts here.

In the aftermath of the bad press caused by feeds, Facebook seems to be more cautious about larger changes now. In response to news that registrations will be opened soon, groups have already been created to petition against it. The group "Official Petition Against Opening Facebook" already has 33,579 members at the time of this post. The group petitioning against the feeds has 734,672 members. Having 700,000+ members out of 9,000,000 disagreeing with features definitely isn't a good sign for Facebook.

"Official Petition Against Opening Facebook" group states in its description:

Do you want your mother seeing what you were REALLY doing at that party last weekend? How about employers looking at the friends you keep? Or worse, stalkers (non-students anyway) tracking you down? None of these convince you? What about... the telemarketers?

Theres a thousand reasons not to open up facebook to anyone who wants to join, but those are just a few of them. So if you'd rather facebook not morph into another myspace, please join this petition and help stop facebook from committing suicide.

Now, we sit back and watch the show.