S O, have you got your iPad yet? No? Really? Two million have been sold in 60 days, so those folk at Apple may be on to something.

You're probably bored of everyone banging on about how great their iPad is. So, I will keep it brief.

The first thing to say is that I am typing this on one.

Two days after the new gadget hit UK stores was officially "iPad day" in the Cooper household.

And what a marvel it is. A jaw-droppingly slick piece of kit, from which wild horses will not tear me away. How I ever managed to live my life without one is already beyond me.

Well, ok, it's not that good, and I could easily live a normal and, indeed, fruitful life without an iPad, except it would feel like I had been give a Porsche to drive for the weekend, and then informed it was being replaced with a Nissan Micra.

It's the finished article, but I'll bet it's the beginning of a new direction for computers, and that in a few years' time we won't be using a mouse or plastic keyboard anymore – it's all about the touch screen.

But, honestly, the best thing about the iPad is that it does everything it is supposed to, and well.

Just think of it as a laptop that actually runs fast, does everything you tell it to, and never just stops, crosses its arms and sulks for no reason whatsoever.

Apart from the iPad, and of course the new iPhone4 announced this week, the other big tech story concerns our old friend Facebook.

There has been a bit of a hoo-ha about FB recently, and the perceived lack of privacy given to the 600million people who use it.

It is, for the time being, pretty much confined to small circles of geeks but it caused enough fuss to make FB sit up and take notice.

The anti-Facebook crowd have a big complaint over the social media giant's privacy settings.

Remember when you first joined FB? How cool it was to catch up with old friends, and share pics with current friends, and use it to plan nights out, tell people you know and trust about what you're doing at any given time of the day, or night. And the great thing was that it was all just between you and them, a safe, walled garden, right?

Wrong. What most FB users did not know is that for the last few months everything you said, all the photos you uploaded, and the marketers' questions you answered, became public by default.

All out there, all searchable and findable by Google.

Of course, you could change your settings so everything remains private (like it was when you signed up) but there were something like 150 privacy settings.

It caused enough of a fuss that Facebook promised to improve its privacy settings.

But not before several thousand users deleted their accounts.

I thought about deleting my account too. Except, well, it's just so damn useful. The problem is there is no alternative, online anyway, to keep up with your real friends.