Dana Thronton, a 41-year old woman from Belleville, is in trouble because of a Facebook Profile that she created after her break up with Parsippany Detective Michael Lasalandra. She created a Facebook account using his name and birth date and even went so far as to upload pictures of him and post comments as if…

Halloween is a holiday that most children really look forward to. It’s one of the few times in the year that they can dress up as monsters, superheroes or anything they want and parade through the neighborhood. However, as fun as Halloween is, it can sometimes be a big source of worry for parents. It’s…

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Several companies and non-profit organizations run promotions and fundraising events to support the cause. Such is the case with the latest Facebook hoax. CUA is a financial institution in Australia, and they developed a unique way to raise awareness for breast cancer awareness. Users can install a Facebook application…

It’s no secret that the unemployment rate in the United States has reached pretty disturbing heights due to the recent economic recession. Millions of people, even those who had all the appropriate qualifications, lost their jobs simply because the companies could no longer afford to have them on board. Today, the country is slowly trying…

The group Europe v. Facebook seems to have opened a floodgate of disturbing revelations against Facebook, one of them being the possibility that Facebook creates ‘Shadow Profiles’ for all its members, and even those who have yet to register themselves. This allegation is one of the 22 complaints that the group filed against Facebook and…

There are always things that we don’t want to have on Facebook. Gossipy conversations, embarrassing photos, controversial status updates – most people have had their fair share of such things. The best way to deal with them is usually to just click the delete button. After which, we can go back to living normally and…

To debt collectors all over the world, Facebook has become a veritable fount of information that makes their job considerably easier. If you were a debt collector and one of your borrowers had suddenly gone AWOL – easy, all you need to do is to lay in wait until he updates his Facebook page. Even…

Facebook introduced ‘frictionless sharing’ at the F8 conference last month. The basic premise behind ‘frictionless sharing’ is that an application is granted permission to publish to a user profile once and doesn’t have to ask for permission again. As expected, many Facebook users had a huge problem with the oversharing potential this new feature presents.…

Doppelgangers: most people would assume that these entities are merely figments of man’s imagination. But the truth is, they do exist, just not in the form most people think they do. One woman had to find this out the hard way when she discovered that she had an online doppelganger. Someone had stolen her identity…

“You know she’s playing hard to get when you’re chasing her down an alleyway.” That quote – whether it made you chuckle or fume in indignation – is at the center of a rather controversial sequence of events. You see, the quote is actually the name of a Facebook page which contains more than 200,000…