The Facebook Killer

The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) has released new social media guidelines. Among the various new rules for teachers, Facebook friending with students has been banned. Doe Social Media Guidelines In an attempt to minimize social media negligence, the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) has released new guidelines that define how [...]

Buried in the new release that Facebook is buying Instagram is a suggestion from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbergthat this is a one-time deal. “This is an important milestone for Facebook because it’s the first time we’ve ever acquired a product and company with so many users. We don’t plan on doing many more of these, [...]

Download Video or MP3 -Iamnotarapperispit.com This Zuckerberg guy uh… he’s uh… pretty smart Facebook just bought Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. Instagram is a mobile-only photo-sharing app. It grew from 1 million users in January 2011 to 15 million in December 2011. It has 30 million users now. What’s great about it is [...]

Can someone be trusted? And can an algorithm work it out? As more and more services focus on the arbitrage of consumer-to-consumer transactions and rentals, the problem of trusting a stranger becomes a significant drag on success.Airbnb, the rent-out-your-home service had a very bad and very public problem last year when a renter trashed and [...]

By: Lana Adams My name is Lana Adams. I am a writer, by definition. I am a twenty-something year old, recent graduate of Temple University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and I am interested in helping people. I want to help people in whatever way that I can, whether it’s informing people about pertinent [...]

Facebook accounts for 95% of social networking time on the web in the U.S. according to an analysis of comScore data provided to us by web publisher Ben Elowitz of Wetpaint. (We would think this holds for mobile, but it’s possible Twitter has more of a hold there than on the desktop.) Elowitz’s takeaway from the data: “There’s [...]

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Facebook launched a new chat feature that enables people to confidentially chat with a counselor if friends report them as a suicide risk, reports the AP. Friends will be able to report content on the site by selecting “suicidal content” inside of the “harmful behavior” menu. At that point, Facebook sends the person an email [...]

Word to Kevin Bacon.. But now maybe we can finally erase this movie from Will’s career.. For years, there’s been a theory that every person is only separated by six degrees, or relationships. Facebook, with its data on 700+ million people and their relationships with friends says that’s not true. We’re all just four degrees of [...]

Ireland‘s Data Protection Commissioner filed a lawsuit against Facebook in August claiming that the social network is creating “extensive profiles”of non-users with information gleaned from the profiles of its 800 million users. “Facebook Ireland is gathering excessive amounts of information about data subjects without notice or consent by the data subject,” the filing reads. Facebook [...]

The Associated Press this morning reports an exclusive, explaining how the White House can receive real-time updates on a situation on the ground, leading up to a revolution, predicting crime and disorder, or the ‘mood in the air’ shortly after the death of Osama bin Laden. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency on a daily basis, [...]

An Austrian group called Europe versus Facebook has so far made 22 complaints regarding the social network’s practices. In the process, the organization has stumbled upon an important tidbit: Facebook says it is not required to give you a copy of some of your personal data if it deems doing so would adversely affect its [...]