If you commit a crime, there’s a good chance it will go on the public record. However, Brimfield Township police chief David Oliver has taken the public shaming of criminals to a whole other level, posting on his police department’s wildly popular Facebook page with rants, jokes and opinions about local criminals, who he has…

It’s long been rumored that Twitter-style hashtags were coming to Facebook, and yesterday Facebook made it official: anything posted on Facebook and marked with a pound sign is clickable. “Hashtags are just the first step to help people more easily discover what others are saying about a specific topic and participate in public conversations,” Facebook…

It’s long been known that the National Security Agency (NSA) monitors phone calls within the United States to detect suspicious activity. However, according to a bombshell report obtained by The Washington Post, the agency, along with the FBI, also investigates and obtains data from Facebook, Google, Skype, and many other popular websites on a scale…

Big news was made last week when Facebook publicly responded to a women’s rights group’s complaint that the site did not do enough to police hate speech on its pages. It vowed that it would do more to identify and eliminate offensive content on the site, particularly content offensive to minority groups and women. They…

According to a recent article in Tech Crunch, Facebook plans on adding a private messaging feature for a small test group of users. Users will be able to use the status update composer located in the news feed to send private Facebook messages.This addition is an effort to combat Google Hangouts and Gmail messaging features,…

A study from the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences has found that Facebook’s Mutual Friends feature is a potential security risk that also raises concerns about user privacy. The study used a computer simulation program to attack 10 random groups of Facebook users consisting of between 500 and 5,000 users. Using shared interests,…

Earlier this week, the women’s rights group Women, Action & The Media sent an open letter to Facebook demanding that they revise their policies regarding offensive content on the site. The group cited many instances of rape jokes, crude or sexist content and demeaning anti-women groups. In an almost unprecedented show of public apology, Facebook…

A group of women’s rights activists sent a blistering open letter to Facebook earlier this week asking them to consider their oftentimes conflicting set of standards on what they do and don’t remove from the site. For instance, nude portraits and images of breastfeeding have been deemed pornographic and removed from the site, but graphic…

Parents are willing to do anything to protect their children. In Australia, that can include paying up to $800 a day to private investigators to track down and even confront Facebook users who are bullying their children. According to concerned parents and investigators, police and school officials don’t do enough to stop bullying, so they…

A short while ago we had some users alerted us to the fact that their ‘Public’ Facebook Groups were displayed on their Timeline. In case you didn’t know, you can navigate to your own Timeline and click the ‘View As‘ button to see what information displays to the Public. This is a good feature to…