Facebook’s insights on human behavior can give them new ways to cash in on our data—and remake our view of society.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has said in public that if Facebook were a country its 900 million members would make it the third largest country in the world.
Continue reading… “What Facebook knows about us and what will it do with all that data?”
App Center
Facebook is launching a new App Center, The App Center will not just have Facebook apps but will be “a place to find social web, desktop, and mobile apps”, as well.
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Clicking the Facebook “like” button is not protected as free speech.
You should know that a judge in federal court asserted that clicking the “like” button in Facebook is not protected under the 1st Amendment.
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Facebook added a new feature that has the potential to save lives. On Tuesday, Facebook announced the arrival of a new tool that will allow people to share their status as an organ donor on their timelines.
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Consumer tastes of the Facebook generation is changing at a greater rate than ever.
The purchasing habits of the youngest generation present the most dramatic shifts in consumer tastes — a reflection of what they find important, and are changing at a greater rate than ever. 24/7 Wall St. has identified eight popular products that the “Facebook generation” is not buying.
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Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, has urged internet users to demand their personal data from online giants such as Google and Facebook to usher in a new era of highly personalized computer services “with tremendous potential to help humanity”.
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What are the best ways to deal with a deceased love one online?
Your friends and family are going to die. Probably later, but maybe sooner. That much is certain. Another certainty is that, when it happens, we’ll all still be using some form of social media. Here’s how to grieve digitally, with dignity.
As much as Facebook is the sprawling, glowing, inexorable way we connect with each other these days—around the clock—death just doesn’t really belong there. Facebook is designed specifically to make you feel proud about yourself. Timeline is a monument to your joys and achievements, no matter how superficial and beer-soaked they may have been. It’s a place toshare your glee—share it all over everyone’s faces, whether they like it or not…
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EnemyGraph
You can love it or hate it but Facebook is a positive place – you can ‘Like’ things, but not dislike them, and you can have Friends, but not enemies… until now.
Continue reading… “EnemyGraph – new app lets you add enemies on Facebook”
Facebook users ‘should never have to share’ information.’
In the wake of controversy over the intrusive practice of employers – Facebook is warning employers not to demand passwords as part of job interviews.
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88 percent of law enforcement agencies use social media to investigate crimes.
Cincinnati police investigators stumbled upon an online video last year showing an act of armed robbery, helpfully taped by the perpetrators themselves. The city’s Real Time Crime Center analysts found the footage on a Facebook page while using the popular social-media site to investigate another crime. The suspects were eventually arrested.
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Do you think Facebook and Twitter account privacy settings guarantee future employers or schools can’t see your private posts? You need to think again.
Continue reading… “Employers and colleges demand Facebook passwords from applicants”
Pinterest had nearly 12 million unique visitors in January, 2012.
When you walk into a teenage girl’s bedroom what would you see on the walls? Probably pictures torn from magazines, drawings, maybe inspirational quotes. If you transform that visual collage into a social media site, and you have Pinterest. The site launched in 2011 and has really taken off with nearly 12 million unique visitors in January, 2012, and its membership has been accelerated by Facebook tie-ins that show your friends’ Pinterest activity.
Continue reading… “What can Pinterest do that Facebook can’t?”
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