Friday , February 20, 2009
Everyone worries about the drunken photos of themselves posted on Facebook that could leak out to the wider world — whether it’s to that cute guy or girl, your parents, or, worse yet, future employers.
But that isn’t the half of it. Facebook has nothing on cell phones, which have become the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’
24 Feb
Cell Phones a Much Bigger Privacy Risk Than Facebook
23 Feb
Cell Phones a Much Bigger Privacy Risk Than Facebook
Everyone worries about the drunken photos of themselves posted on Facebook that could leak out to the wider world — whether it’s to that cute guy or girl, your parents, or, worse yet, future employers. But that isn’t the half of it. Facebook has nothing on cell phones, which have become the most powerful weapon [...]
23 Feb
Linked In Or Out?
“I am the IT Administrator for a regional restaurant chain, and as of late I am noticing more and more people sending me invitations to sites like LinkedIn, FaceBook, etc.
19 Feb
Maine police credit Facebook page in solving crime (AP)
AUBURN, Maine – Three weeks after setting up a page on Facebook, a central Maine police department is crediting the social networking Web site with helping solve a vandalism case.
19 Feb
Revised Facebook privacy policy draws protests
Deborah Gage, Chronicle Staff Writer
(02-18) 00:03 PST San Francisco — Facebook has apparently bowed to pressure from users who protested a change to the social networking site’s privacy policy and returned to its original policy – at least for now.
18 Feb
Facebook: Relax, we won’t sell your photos
On an otherwise placid holiday weekend, one blog’s commentary on a change to Facebook’s terms of service created a firestorm of banter on the Web: does the social network claim ownership to any user content on the site, even if the user deletes it?
18 Feb
Mobile phone operators to boost ‘chat’ services (AFP)
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) – Sixty mobile phone operators have linked up to develop new “chat” functionality for subscribers that will replicate the experience of online programmes such as MSN Messenger, according to an industry initiative unveiled Monday.
17 Feb
Facebook use similar on mobile phones, computers: study (AFP)
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) – Facebook users spend almost 30 minutes a day on the site poking and messaging their friends on average, with access patterns similar on mobile phones and computers, according to a British study.
The research tracked access to Facebook by mobile phone subscribers in Britain and found that the social networking phenomenon was [...]
13 Feb
The 10 Things We Want To Know About “25 Random Things About Me”A Slate reader survey: What are the origins of the Facebook phenomenon?
By Chris WilsonUpdated Friday, Feb. 6, 2009, at 11:55 AM ET
In the past few weeks, a chain letter called “25 Random Things About Me” has wormed its way through Facebook at an alarming speed. The exhibitionistic format has remained surprisingly intact: In addition to rattling off 25 facts about themselves, “Random Things” authors are supposed [...]
10 Feb
Student Fights Record of ‘Cyberbullying’
MIAMI — Katherine Evans said she was frustrated with her English teacher for ignoring her pleas for help with assignments and a brusque reproach when she missed class to attend a school blood drive.
So Ms. Evans, who was then a high school senior and honor student, logged onto the networking site Facebook and wrote a [...]
8 Feb
Facebook Formalizes Support for OpenID Foundation
By Nicholas Kolakowski
2009-02-06
With MySpace and Google releasing similar applications, Facebook has already moved to allow users to port their data around the Web via Facebook Connect. In the next stage of building open distributed-identity frameworks across the Internet, Facebook officially joins the board of the OpenID Foundation.On Feb. 5, Facebook announced that it would join [...]
5 Feb
Teen Blackmailed Classmates Via Facebook
In one of the more sordid accounts of online predation we’ve read recently, the Associated Press reported on Thursday that a Wisconsin teen used a fake Facebook profile to blackmail his classmates into giving sexual favors.
Eighteen-year-old high school student Anthony Stancl is accused of creating a Facebook profile belonging to a nonexistent teenage girl and [...]
5 Feb
Teen accused of sex assaults in Facebook scam
By CARRIE ANTLFINGER, Associated Press Writer Carrie Antlfinger, Associated Press Writer – Thu Feb 5, 6:28 am ET
MILWAUKEE – An 18-year-old male student is accused of posing as a girl on Facebook, tricking at least 31 male classmates into sending him naked photos of themselves and then blackmailing some for sex acts.
“The kind of manipulation that occurred here is really [...]
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