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People Look At Google+ And Facebook The Same Way

An eye tracking study of 54 users under the age of 34 shows that Facebook users and Google+ users read their homepage in the same way. Both Facebook and Google+ users begin by examining the main column where all the content is located. They then jump around from the left, right and top columns as…

Tech News Kelly Aug 12

Here’s How To Remove Your Contacts’ Phone Numbers From Facebook’s Clutches

Facebook loves doing unexpected things with your data. Now it’s culling numbers from your phone and adding them to its online database to “help you” find contacts. Don’t trust Facebook with your mom’s number? Here’s how to fix it. http://gawker.com/5829979/whats-facebook-doing-with-all-the-numbers-in-my-cell-phone If you’re syncing, Facebook’s iPhone app will pull the numbers in your phone’s contact file…

Social Media Mat Honan Aug 11

Kno Thinks Selling College Textbooks On Facebook Is the Way Forward

Seems Kno realized that not every student wanted a hulking $899 dual-screened tablet, but I’m not sure selling textbooks that are readable on Facebook is the right way forward—hasn’t Kno thought about the possibility for distraction? https://gizmodo.com/that-dual-screened-kno-tablet-aimed-at-students-will-co-5685165 Several thousand textbooks will also be readable by web and through its iPad app, which had a bunch…

Social Media Kat Hannaford Aug 11

Researcher Predicts Your Facebook Friends With Frightening Accuracy

Stanford University’s Jure Leskovec knows more about than you think. With the right tools and information, the computer scientist can predict the next person you will friend on Facebook. Leskovec picks this lucky person by compiling and analyzing all your online social activity. Tweets, retweets, friends and likes, he looks at them all. With about…

Social Media Kelly Aug 11

The NYPD Has Hacked Together a Social Media Taskforce

In the midst of the ongoing violence in London and after what must be boatloads of crimes stemming from online activity, the NYPD has formed a unit dedicated to sifting through Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace for information on dangerous activity. http://gawker.com/5829527/british-police-plan-a-fightback-as-three-more-die-in-riots Now, considering that Facebook and Twitter are both strangely attractive to bold, young criminals…

Social Media Kwame Opam Aug 10

Facebook Terms of Service Deciphered For Dudes

Facebook’s constantly-evolving Terms of Service are too long and complex for most people to be bothered to read. So the dudes at Slacktory re-wrote the entire thing in bro-speak, yo. You can, like, understand it and stuff now. It’s actually quite the public service for anyone on Facebook. Have you actually read Facebook’s terms of…

Social Media Mat Honan Aug 10

Facebook’s Hiding Video-Chat In Its Messenger App

Boy, if you ever want to know what Facebook’s planning next, just take a peek in its code. That’s what one chap did yesterday when Facebook released its Messenger app, and discovered that video-chat will be added soon. https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-ipad-app-is-buried-in-its-iphone-app-5824351 According to what the discoverer found, the video-conference feature will be available for both iPhone and…

Social Media Kat Hannaford Aug 10

Anonymous To Destroy Facebook On November 5th (Update: Well, Probably Not)

The fifth of November: the day Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the English Parliament in 1605, and the day Anonymous threatens to destroy Facebook in 2011. A video press release from a purported member of the hacker group claims there will be an all-out assault that day that will bring down your favorite social…

Social Media Kelly Aug 10

California Booting Inmates off Facebook

If there’s anything worse than being in a California state penitentiary, it’s not being able to check if you’ve been tagged in any photos lately. This dual fate of horror is now a reality for CA inmates, NBC reports. The state’s apparently not thrilled with social media savvy criminals, and is “working with Facebook to…

Social Media Sam Biddle Aug 9

Facebook for iPhone and Android: Will This Really Kill SMS?

As you may have heard, Facebook just released a standalone Messenger app. It’s their effort to invade your phone with a messaging platform that everyone has access to (because ‘everyone’ has a Facebook). And even if you don’t use Facebook, you can use it to SMS! https://gizmodo.com/facebook-s-new-messenger-app-aims-to-kill-sms-bbm-and-5829250 What’s it do? Well, theoretically it can become…

Social Media Casey Chan Aug 9

Facebook’s New Messenger App Aims to Kill SMS, BBM, and Everything Else

AIM’s downfall owes largely to the ubiquity of Facebook chat. And now, the company’s going after the mobile crown—texting. Facebook Messenger will do text conversations, privately share your location, and beam around photos. To all of your friends. The dedicated Messenger app will be separate from the main Facebook app for iOS and Android, offering…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 9

Teenager Arrested for Inciting Riots on Facebook

A 16-year-old’s been arrested in Glasgow, Scotland, for attempting to kickstart a riot via Facebook, to match England’s riots. While it’s not yet known if his/her efforts will spark any trouble, Facebook has at least taken the page down. [TheDrum] https://gizmodo.com/scenes-from-a-riot-electronics-stores-sacked-by-britis-5829016

Social Media Kat Hannaford Aug 9

Five Reasons Why You Should Join Facebook

Yes, Facebook has its problems, but you may want to reconsider turning your back on the social network. Facebook’s not just a place companies go to dredge up embarrassing information, it can be used to your advantage. https://gizmodo.com/top-ten-reasons-you-should-quit-facebook-5530178 Here are five reasons why you should become more active on Facebook, not less. You never know,…

Social Media Kelly Aug 8

The Web at 20: It Changed Everything

Happy Birthday, Interwebz! How far you’ve come. See, if the Internet drew its first breath in the fall of 1969, it took its first steps toward its potential on August 6, 1991. Took awhile there. But it was this first step that was just the beginning. https://gizmodo.com/here-is-the-first-photo-of-the-internet-5351053 In the Beginning The World Wide Web, or…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 6

Facial recognition software takes one glance at you and brings up your Facebook profile

Worried about privacy on the Internet? It may be even worse than you thought – with rapidly improving face recognition technology, your automatically tagged Facebook pictures could help a stranger, or the authorities, quickly identify you on the street. A simple system that compares Facebook pictures and webcam snapshots can make a positive match after…

io9 Rebecca Boyle - Popular Science Aug 6

Teens Need to Learn How to Breakup on Facebook

The NY Times has a story about how a conference was held to teach 200 teenagers from Boston how to have “healthy breakups”. Unsurprisingly, a lot of the discussion revolved around proper Facebook breakup etiquette. We’ve covered how to handle the modern day breakup and even gave you the 7 steps to breaking up online…

Social Media Casey Chan Aug 6

Your Facebook Photos Can Identify You In Real Life

Well, this is scary. Researchers have created software that uses public information to ID basically anybody just walking down the street. Stalkers, rejoice. Everyone else, time to find a comfortable mask that you’ll never take off. Using facial recognition software and databases made of publicly accessible photos (profile photos from Facebook and LinkedIn that don’t…

Social Media Brent Rose Aug 5

Facebook’s Spam King Nabbed by FBI Once and For All

Our friend the Spam King has turned himself into the FBI a couple years after he was ordered to pay $711 million for spamming the shit out of Facebook. Will Facebook finally get some money out of Sanford Wallace now? Unlikely, but he’s expected to head to jail for his deeds, which involved compromising half…

Social Media Kat Hannaford Aug 5

Cosplay-Playing, Sex-Offending Copper Lands In More Trouble After Battlestar Galactica Facebook Post

You think you’d lay off Facebook for a while if arrested for six sex-related offences, but ex-deputy police officer Nathan James Gastineau of California found his bail rose from $150,000 to $350,000 after quoting Admiral Cain’s speech on Facebook. The Highland, California police-man had been arrested in April for three counts of lewd acts on…

Social Media Kat Hannaford Aug 5

Hef and the Playboy Bunnies Discover Planking

Months after the Facebook craze caught on, Hugh Hefner and his playmates tweeted planking photos from Playboy’s mansion—after a rousing game of Uno, apparently. Check out Hef’s plank for a scary glimpse of his future. [@HughHefner via AllThingsD]

Social Media Kat Hannaford Aug 5

People Look At Google+ And Facebook The Same Way

Here’s How To Remove Your Contacts’ Phone Numbers From Facebook’s Clutches

Kno Thinks Selling College Textbooks On Facebook Is the Way Forward

Researcher Predicts Your Facebook Friends With Frightening Accuracy

The NYPD Has Hacked Together a Social Media Taskforce

Facebook Terms of Service Deciphered For Dudes

Facebook’s Hiding Video-Chat In Its Messenger App

Anonymous To Destroy Facebook On November 5th (Update: Well, Probably Not)

California Booting Inmates off Facebook

Facebook for iPhone and Android: Will This Really Kill SMS?

Facebook’s New Messenger App Aims to Kill SMS, BBM, and Everything Else

Teenager Arrested for Inciting Riots on Facebook

Five Reasons Why You Should Join Facebook

The Web at 20: It Changed Everything

Facial recognition software takes one glance at you and brings up your Facebook profile

Teens Need to Learn How to Breakup on Facebook

Your Facebook Photos Can Identify You In Real Life

Facebook’s Spam King Nabbed by FBI Once and For All

Cosplay-Playing, Sex-Offending Copper Lands In More Trouble After Battlestar Galactica Facebook Post

Hef and the Playboy Bunnies Discover Planking

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