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Facebook Likes Can Predict Your Personality
12 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Researchers at Cambridge University are using algorithms to predict religion, political stance, race and sexual orientation from the things one “likes” on Facebook. The research provides quite accurate personal portraits. Over 58 000 volunteers were used for the study, and provided their Facebook “likes” as well as demographic information. These volunteers also provided psychometric testing […]
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This App Will Revolutionise Phone Calls – If You’re Actually Still Making Phone Calls
12 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
After seeing the functionality of this app, it makes us wonder why no one has thought of it sooner. Thread is a new app that helps you keep up to date with your phone contacts. Not only does it give you the classic caller ID, it also shows the most recent Facebook and Twitter posts […]
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Kids Are Abandoning Facebook To Flee Their Cyber-Stalking Parents
11 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is what happens when you start hanging out at the playground, mom and dad. The kids find another playground. According to CNET, and everyone you know, teenagers are leaving Facebook in droves. Why? Privacy. Personally, we’re not all that surprised. No one wants to post pictures of themselves climbing a yacht mast in a […]
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Chances Are You’re Dating A Fake – Reality TV Show Documents The Danger Of Falling In Love Online [VIDEO]
21 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Ever meet someone over the Internet? Ever heard someone who has say something like this: “We’ve been dating for two years, one problem, we haven’t met yet”? Today, social media and other digital platforms makes it easy to stalk find “that special person”. Although we hear about real life couples who have met on dating […]
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Facebook “Friends” The Wine World
20 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We LIKE this. A new Facebook online store has been developed encouraging their US users to buy and send gifts with just a click of a button. Remembering birthdays used to be a daunting experience until these guys came along, and now they making something like purchasing wine just as easy.
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The Monday Afternoon Pistorius Update: Oscar’s Star Defense Team Includes Ex-Tabloid Editor, As Ex-Girlfriends’ Bickering Spills Onto Social Media
18 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Pistorius and ex-girlfriend, Jenna Edkins Things are falling apart, a little bit. Oscar Pistorius’ ex-girlfriends have not been shy to voice their opinions of the Paralympian murder accused. Most vociferous have been Samantha Taylor, and Jenna Edkins. Taylor told the press last year that she was “prepared to reveal what Pistorius made me go through”. […]
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The 2013 State Of The Nation Address – As Seen On Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]
15 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Our friends over at BrandsEye put together this excellent analysis of the social media conversation that emerged around the 2013 State Of The Nation Address, or #SONA/#SONA13, as you might have seen it. This, from BrandsEye’s report: From the speech in 2011 with 6,000 online mentions, this year’s address delivered just over 49,000 online conversations. […]
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Now It’s Getting Weird: New Facebook App Tracks Your Location – Even When It’s Turned Off
06 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Thanks to Mark Creeperberg and Facebook, you can now find your friends who are in the same area as you, even if their Facebook app is closed. Which is obviously a red flag for privacy. Facebook already allows you to “check in”, logging the places you’ve visited in a viewable GPS map format. According to […]
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Facebook To Pay Millions of Users $5 Each, Or Nothing At All
30 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A huge number of American Facebook users received an email recently that they probably deleted imagining it came from a cash-strapped Nigerian Prince, but the email promising them $10 was real.
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Hey, Facebook Stalkers, You Better Take Note
18 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Most people would never admit to engaging in the odd bit of Facebook stalking, but truth be told, most people love nothing more than a little stalk every now and then. Here’s how you can take precautions to stay in the clear.
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Another Local Online Agency Is Selling Fake YouTube Views, Facebook Fans, And Twitter Followers
18 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 26 Comments
In an astounding conflict of interest, a local online marketing company that charges its corporate clients to promote their products and services online, has been revealed to be behind a local website that may sell fake Twitter followers, Facebook fans, and YouTube views. Depending on the method used, buying Twitter followers, Facebook fans or YouTube […]
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17 Things That Mark Zuckerberg “Likes” On Facebook
17 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Facebook recently launched their new search tool, called Graph Search. While it isn’t widely available yet, once it has been implemented, it will search each Facebook user’s profile for their “likes.”
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Facebook Privacy Settings FAIL – Photo Of Mark Zuckerberg’s Family Leaked [PIC]
27 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Randi Zuckerberg is the older sister of Facebook creator, Mark Zuckerberg. She is also the social network’s former marketing director. But on Christmas Day she got burned by Facebook’s privacy settings just like the rest of us.
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The Biggest Social Media Moments Of 2012 [INFOGRAPHIC]
24 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
2012 has been one crazy year for social media! Facebook went public, Pinterest was named Best New Startup, Facebook bought Instagram, and Psy’s “Gangnam Style” became the most viewed YouTube video in history with more than one billion views so far!
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Facebook Law For Idiots [VIDEO]
28 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Fellow Internet users and 2oceansvibers. We are sure you are not at fault here, being the bastion of modern communication etiquette you are. You may, however, know someone who is at fault; we would love you to forward this on to them.
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Facebook Gifts Encourage Users To Expose More Private Information
01 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook is about to start testing its new gifting platform that will allow it another go at a possible revenue stream, but there’s a small problem: exposing information like home addresses, birth dates and other aspects could pose security and privacy risks.
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MySpace’s Gorgeous Redesign, Too Little, Too Late?
25 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
It’s back! After its initial launch almost a decade ago, the grandaddy of social networks, MySpace, is set to make a comeback with a completely redesigned site and new interface which they’ve previewed in a brand new teaser video. The new site looks great and, as one would expect, is promising to be the next big thing, yet I foresee one slight problem: does anyone care?
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Facebook Quadruples Voting Behaviour
13 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In another instance of sheep-like behavior, research shows that a banner message on Facebook showing users’ friends who voted drove a third of a million more voters to the poll booths in the 2010 US elections. It’s not simply people responding to a message, but rather seeing their friends had voted, that they then followed suit.
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Exclusive: Is Woolworths Whistleblower SA’s Biggest Online Fake?
06 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 200 Comments
UPDATE: The Facts: Woolworths >> Quirk >> 2oceansvibe You would have caught the latest allegations made online against Woolworths, with regard to their allegedly racist employment practices. Following an extensive investigation, 2oceansvibe can reveal that the blogger whistleblower has some integrity/challenging skeletons of his own. Again the issue of fabricated online clout rears its ugly […]
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Unbaby.Me App – Banish Those Facebook Baby Photos From Your News Feed For Good
17 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sick and tired of baby photos taking up your news feed on Facebook? There’s a solution for that: Unbaby.me will replace baby photos with whatever you’d prefer to see, like bacon for example.
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The Definitive Joburg Snow Wrap Up – Beautiful Video Montage [VIDEO]
17 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On August 7 this year, all nine provinces in South Africa experienced simultaneous snowfall for the very first time. Joburg’s residents in particular were rather excited about this event and made sure the rest of us knew it via Facebook and Twitter. Sandton’s largest Twitter account, @sandtontimes, compiled this beautiful Instagram photo compilation of the city’s snow – sourced from social networks.
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Facebook: Large, Unwanted Adverts Coming To Your Newsfeed Soon
15 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Share price is a fallin’, advertisers are a ballin’. So what’s next for Facebook? Forcing large, unwanted adverts in your face, that’s what.
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New Technology Scans Your Face And Checks You In On Facebook
14 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It would seem Facebook is getting scarier and scarier every day. A new technology is being tested that will place a camera outside a building, which will use your Facebook pictures to recognise you and then check you in and offer you a special deal. Cool, or creepy?
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Do “Likes” On Facebook Qualify As Freedom Of Expression?
08 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook recently entered the South African legal domain when the Durban High Court held that it is permissible for documents to be served through the social media platform. This begs the question though – what’s coming next?
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Facebook Scans Your Personal Chats For Criminal Activity
13 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
According to a recent report, social media sites, including Facebook, monitor users’ chats and scan for criminal activity. The invasive measures are intended to “ensure the safety of public” and authorities are notified if any suspicious activity is detected.
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Coming Soon: Facebook Bank
12 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Facebook may in the future be doing for your banking what it’s done for your online privacy in general. Who doesn’t want to be able to pay their bills while at the same time looking at photos of their friends at that braai that got a little out of hand?
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Little Monsters Unite, Lady Gaga’s Social Network Is Live!
11 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That’s right folks, just when you thought you the social networking market was saturated, Lady Gaga goes launches her own one, forcing you plunge once more into the pool of superficial social integration. However LittleMonsters.com, which is a little bit Facebook and little bit Pinterest with a dash of Reddit, claims to be more than just another glorified sharing app. Click for the full breakdown.
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A Quarter Of Your Friends Are Deliberately Posting Ugly Photos Of You On Facebook
04 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There is nothing worse than being tagged in a Facebook photo that you don’t want to be tagged in. You know, that time at the bar, after tequila number 7, hanging off your mate Jeff? Turns out it wasn’t just a mass upload.
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Facebook To Start Letting You Edit Your Idiotic Comments
22 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You know that thing where you post a comment on Facebook and immediately regret your decision? Well, Facebook sure does. Which is why they’re rolling out a comment-editing functionality over the next few days. Rest easy, people whose grammar falls apart whenever they get excited.
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Facebook Wants Your Phone Number, “For Your Own Safety”
15 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Within the next few days, every single Facebook user will be met with a request for a verified phone number, which will apparently help users “stay in control” of their accounts. This is partially a response to security breaches at LinkedIn, Last.fm and eHarmony, but it’s also because Facebook wants to know more stuff about you.
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