Category Archives: Facebook

Where’s the time flown?

I’ve just realised, I haven’t spoken on here for a while. Well I’ve been hard at work doing ‘things’. Now for those of you who aren’t students these ‘things’ include many tasks, normally its consists of half the day on Facebook and the other half doing university related work. Its not that I spend […]

thumbs up or not !

I’ve now got terrible thumbs up or cross icons for each of news feed when I log into Facebook, how annoying I wonder if they can be removed ?

It’s all about making Facebook better (my arse), it’s just an excuse to gather more information about you (your like and dislikes) and for you to […]

Facebook Advertising

I’m not really up on how Facebook currently goes about it advertising these days, but this is either entirely coincidental or they are able to generate adverts towards your interests or groups. I always thought they did it by age, gender and network.
On seeing that flyer I presume my assumption is wrong.
I would have missed […]

What else could I get for 10 Billion Dollars ?

Microsoft is rumored to be interested in investing in Facebook, in a deal that would value the social network at $10 billion or more. Just what else could you buy with $10 billion? It’s the GDP of Bolivia, for starters.
Read More examples on Wired
-Kyle
Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Facebook, $10 Billion

Tits Up

It looks like an argument has broken out between Facebook and breast feeding activists over pictures of breast feeding babies uploaded to Facebook.
Facebook has taken down pictures of users breast feeding, and has even gone as far as banning users completely on the basis that the pictures constitute ?obscene content.? Suffice to say the Lactivists  (breast […]

Facebook’s Public Search

One of the great features of Facebook was privacy.  You could be assured that what was in Facebook remained in Facebook.  However, that illusion might be ending soon with the introduction of public search.
Why Facebook why, this new feature isn’t for users own good but an attempt to increase your own virtuous cycle, in attracting more people to the Facebook […]

Stranger as Friends

Recently we’ve seen a fair amount of scrutiny of Facebook, due to the social-networking site’s potential for identity theft and security breaches. A few recent security glitches haven’t helped aka ‘Source Code Leakage’. Now, IT security firm Sophos has released the results of its Facebook ID Probe, a test to see just how many users […]

Is it just a form of slander ?

 
The freedom of blogger’s is at jeopardy (again) according to The Guardian but this time its the social network giant Facebook who has the power to do good. Facebook, which has mushroomed to 30 million users worldwide, is being asked to close down the Survivors of 118 118 group page because of its high level of […]

Firms pull Facebook ads after BNP link

 

Problems, yesterday Vodafone and First Direct pulled their advertising from Facebook after they were randomly placed on a the British National party group page.
I wonder how this will affect future advertising revenue for Facebook ?, I feel sorry for Facebook the chances are they didn’t even know the BNP group existed yet alone placing these […]

Rowdy students’ Facebook search

 

Again Facebook is in the news, this time its the Dons at Oxford University who want evidence on students who have committed unruly post-exam pranks. 
Yet again its the whole privacy issue
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-Kyle 
Technorati tags: Facebook, Privacy, Oxford University

Some facts about Facebook

I found this quite scary;

65% have checked up on an ex boyfriend or girlfriend using Facebook.
15.5% of men and 1.6% of women have “gratified themselves” to Facebook.
Zuckerberg helped 19.9% of men and 11.4% of women hookup.
68.2% of women judged others while on Facebook. 61.9% of men cast stones.
36.9% of women and 36% of men have […]

Top 10 Facebook Applications

Facebook is getting bigger and bigger each day, now with the integration of app’s it has sent us ‘cool’ kids wild. (well I haven’t forsaken myself quite yet but it will come and on that day my Facebook page will look like it was created by a 3 year old). Anyway I found this list on […]