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Facebook Apps Have Been Leaking Private Data To Advertisers For Years
11 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Surprise! Security firm Symantec yesterday reported that a hole in the Facebook security system allowed third-parties like advertisers access to user accounts and private data – and that this hole has been in place for the past four years, since Facebook first started offering apps to its users.
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Facebook Sued – Parent Doesn’t Like ‘Likes’
05 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In other Facebook news today, the social media platform is in hot water again for its marketing tactics. A father in the US is suing Facebook for not getting permission from parents or guardians before letting other users know when children ‘like’ brands. I’m not sure my dad would know what a ‘like’ was if it hit him with a stick.
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Facebook Thinks Photos Of Dudes Kissing Is Bad, Apparently
18 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Richard Metzger, television host and author, recently received an email from Facebook letting him know that a photo of his had been taken down for violating “Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities,” which prohibits “nudity, or any kind of graphic or sexually suggestive content.” The photo in question was of two men kissing.
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A Very Cool Video From Greenpeace To Facebook [VIDEO]
30 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Earth Day 2011 is on the way, and environmental group Greenpeace has released a video telling us that a) coal is the number one contributor to climate change in the world, and b) Facebook needs a lot of coal to keep all 600 million of us tagging and poking.
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Facebook Wants To Read What You Type And Then Serve You A Delicious Ad
25 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
We all love Facebook. Some of us love Facbook so much that we’ve given up our meth addictions just to spend more time on Facebook. But every now and then Zuckerberg does something that just doesn’t sit right, like serving up adds as you type.
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Important News: Zuckerberg Sets Relationship Status To “In A Relationship”!
24 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
News just in, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook and seller of your personal information, is no longer single. The world may now breathe a collective sigh of relief. None of us could bare his loneliness for even one a moment longer.
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EU Trying To Enforce Enhanced Privacy From Facebook
17 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The European Union is attempting to establish the “right to be forgotten online,” as a legislative response to embarrassing old data – risque photographs, stupid statuses – that refuse to disappear. The proposed bit of legislation would enforce higher privacy settings and offer greater user control.
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Facebook Causes 20% Of American Divorces
10 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, I mean not totally – it’s the evidence found on Facebook as grounds for the dissolution of marriage which causes 20% of all divorce cases in the US, but still. Big number. Increasingly, social networking sites form the primary source of evidence in custody battles and divorce proceedings, so heads up.
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Facebook Introduces Suicide Support System
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Due to the growing occurrence of ‘Facebook suicides’ a help system has been put in place, which allows users concerned about potentially suicidal friends to report the activity to Facebook, which will trigger a hotline response reaching out to the depressed party.
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Mark Zuckerberg Wants To Sell Your Private Info…Again
02 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The Facebook programmers are busily working away on new features that give third-party developers and external websites the ability to access users’ home addresses and cellphone numbers. Now isn’t that charming?
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The Facebook Breakup Notifier: It Stalks Crushes For You!
22 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Man, when was the last time a Facebook App was actually useful? I mean, Facebook is inherently a timesink, and this app isn’t so much useful as it is creepy, but semantics. The Breakup Notifier does what is says on the tin – it lets you know the second your crush isn’t in a relationship anymore.
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Egyptian Names Baby “Facebook”
22 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That’s right, an Egyptian man has, as a show of appreciation to Facebook in helping to organise the January 25th protests in Cairo, named his baby Facebook.
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Facebook Used To Hire Hitman
15 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’ve been charged with rape, it’s best that you don’t post on your Facebook profile that you need a hitman, ASAP, to help sort out the victim of your alleged crime. It’s especially a bad idea if that person can see your Facebook page.
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Oh God No Google Wants To Buy Twitter It’s All Over
10 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ha. But no, seriously, they’re talking about this – the dudes and ladies who run Twitter are being courted by a couple of companies, Facebook and Google among them, who want to shell out the $10bn that the company is apparently worth. Predictably, a bunch of people are whining about this being the end of Twitter, etc.
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When Unpolished Politicians Use Facebook
04 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here is a tip for becoming a successful politician: When you write newspaper columns criticising your own political party, they will be upset and invite you to a disciplinary. Logging onto Facebook and calling them “dickheads” will only make the situation worse.
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FaceDaddy Claims It Hard
02 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yes, you read that correctly. The founder of Facebook’s founder is letting everyone who’ll listen know that he is Mark Zuckerberg’s dad. I didn’t believe it at first either, as I’m sure money or status isn’t a big issue in the Zuckerberg household. Anyway, it’s more the manner in which the claiming happened that is important here guys. This is rather awesome.
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Thank Facebook For Your Social Skills
01 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You might have been in the ‘cool group’ at school and you might even think you are ‘cool’ right now. Are you? Doesn’t matter, either way, it’s only fair if you give some credit to your social guidance counsellor – Facebook – for helping your coolness vibe resonate onto others. A study says so.
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The Sadness Network
28 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I knew I wasn’t alone in my misery. Well that’s not true, I thought I was alone in my misery. But according to a new paper in the January issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, so do many other people.
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Finally Hide Your Ex On Facebook
20 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook has been hailed as one of the great tools in Human History. It’s brining people closer, creating lasting relationships and strengthening the ties between us. But it’s also created an ettiquette of its very own. In the past if you were cruelly and horribly broken up with the person in question could, with time, be hidden in the recesses of your damaged psyche. But no more!
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Facebook Valued At $50 Billion
03 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook has been valued at more than $50 billion, which is more than Time Warner. Justin Timberlake probably thinks that’s really cool. The Great Folly Of Zuckerberg cracked the 50 billion mark after raising $500 million in investment from Goldman Sachs, and a Russian company called Digital Sky.
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World Map According To Social Networks: Mind The Gap
13 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Artist Vincenzo Cosenza has redrawn the world map based on each nation’s preferred social networking site – ranging from the reasonably well-known Facebook and Orkut to the bizarrely unfamiliar (here) Draugiem – unless you’ve got some friends in Lativa you’ve not told us about.
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Facebook Stalking: Even The Israeli Military Does It!
25 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Poor Israeli military. You’re like that lonely guy, going through a pretty girl’s photos to see if she really does have a boyfriend, like she said that one time at that club. Except replace ‘boyfriend’ with ‘Orthodox Jewish background,’ which is a way better excuse anyway.
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The Social Media Sobriety Filter
15 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: drunk Facebooking ruins lives.
Thankfully the good people at Webroot Software have seen the urgent need to curb this scourge of humanity.
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Five Reasons Why Myspace Is About To Fail (For Real This Time)
05 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
In the wake of the news that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has declared that “Myspace is a problem” and has given the beleaguered social networking site months to sort itself out, we take a look at the reasons why the original posterchild of Web 2.0 is dying.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Social Network (2010)
03 Nov 2010 by SPLING / 1 Comment
The Social Network is a timely story about the founders of Facebook and their legal disputes on the back of unprecedented viral Internet growth and accidental billionaires. Whatever your take on the social online platform, The Social Network movie seems to have everyone hitting ‘Like’…
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The “Damn It, My Mom’s on Facebook” Filter
13 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Luckily this is a scenario that I’ve never had to deal with, as my mom refuses to go on Facebook. Unfortunately, for most of you, this is not the reality. It’s for those of you who have to deal with this problem on a daily basis that I give to you: The Damn It, My Mom’s On Facebook Filter.
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Facebook Founder Supports The Reefer
11 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Facebook founder, Sean Parker, has donated $100,000 in support of California’s Proposition 19. Proposition 19 being the controversial measure than Californians will vote on next month which will decide whether or not to legalise marijuana.
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How To Get Unfriended And Alienate People
07 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
You know when you click on someone’s profile on Facebook to leave a weird little comment on their wall only to find out that you have been unfriended, ya it’s an awesome feeling. But there is generally a reason. A new study gives the 5 reasons you might have been unfriended.
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IF THEY HAD FACEBOOK IN THE OLD DAYS
13 Sep 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
With the movie The Social Network coming out next month, Facebook really is the talk of the town. Or talk of the earth, I should rather say. The excitement relating to Facebook is largely to do with the speed at which its grown in such a short time. It is relatively new in our lives. […]
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‘THE SOCIAL NETWORK’ TRAILER
10 Sep 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 3 Comments
If you take into account the fact that virtually every person you know is on Facebook, I think it’s a given that this movie is going to be the talk of the WORLD, very soon! ‘The Social Network’ is Hollywood’s take on Facebook, how it started and, in particular, its main founder and chief, Mark […]
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