Raising children in the Facebook era is certainly no easy task. Apart from the threats of online predators, cyber bullies, hackers, scammers and identity thieves, parents also have to worry about their children posting questionable, outrageous or inappropriate content. Most teens reluctantly ‘friend’ their parents on Facebook, and then the cat and mouse game begins.…

Facebook will NOT donate money to any cause based on the number of likes or shares that a photo receives. Several photos of injured or sick children and animals are circulating on Facebook claiming that Facebook will donate a certain amount of money for each like or share the photo receives. Please do not share…

The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a nationally recognized non-profit focusing on identity theft and related issues, has just launched a Facebook Social Media Survey to measure interaction trends between internet users and Facebook.  The ITRC is conducting this survey in order to better help victims with Facebook-related identity theft concerns and issues. “As our…

Ok, that might be overstated just a bit. Considering the average Facebook user in a 2012 survey by The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project had 245 Facebook friends, we can knock it down to 149,755 reasons. The title of the project is actually, “Why most Facebook users get more than they give,”…

You’ve no doubt heard that Facebook filed papers with the SEC this week moving forward with their plans to go public. As part of the filing, they are required to list anything that could negatively impact the value of the company. Facebook listed 35 risk factors that could seriously impact shareholder value. Mashable breaks all…

We are pleased to announce that we have entered into a partnership agreement with Private WiFi® to provide our site visitors with up-to-date news and privacy resources about how to prevent identity theft and fraud in wireless hotspots. For those of you unfamiliar with Private WiFi, it is a personal VPN software that installs easily…

In a blog post yesterday, Facebook announced that they, along with the Washington State Attorney’s Office have filed lawsuits against Adscend Media, LLC. Adscend Media is an advertising network that utilized “misleading and deceptive tactics, including one known as clickjacking”. Clickjacking is a type of Facebook scam where scammers hide code on malicious websites that…

We often have readers ask us questions about specific Facebook applications. Some apps generate an enormous amount of spam and can annoy the heck out of your Facebook friends. Others are outright scams and should be avoided entirely. For example, any application offering to show you who has viewed your profile, who your Facebook stalkers…

Anonymous released a video today stating that the hactivist group is planning to attack Facebook on January 28, 2012 at 12:00 a.m. The video begins with the following statement, “An online war has begun between Anonymous, the people, and the government of the United States.” ‘Operation Global Blackout’ is planned because Anonymous wants the ‘People…

Facebook has become a rather popular medium for gathering donations. Of course, with the site’s 800 million users, it’s practically guaranteed that you’ll find somebody who is sympathetic to your cause. In fact, Facebook’s so effective that some people have successfully used it as a platform for collecting donations, particularly for medical expenses. Some people…