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…

Here’s a little peek into what could possibly be a fixture in our future: Facebook ID Cards. Last October 11, the company applied for a trademark on the usage of “Facebook” on “cards, namely business cards and non-magnetically encoded identity cards”. The application is open for all to see and on trademark search engines such…

The idea of people leaving their Facebook passwords in their wills is certainly not a mainstreaan concept- at the moment. However, if one really stops to think of it, our growing reliance on internet based services prompts the necessity of such action. In fact, a study conducted in behalf of Rackspace, a cloud computing company,…

In the wake of Europe vs. Facebook’s “Annoy Facebook” campaign, those who participated discovered something very fishy: Facebook claims that it is not required to give a user a ‘complete’ copy of his or her data if, in doing so, the company will be compromising its ‘trade secrets’ or ‘intellectual property’. It’s a bit of…

Spotify has been in the spotlight for several weeks now – but not for the reasons that it would have liked. The music streaming service is one of the first to embrace the new ‘frictionless sharing’ feature Facebook announced at F8. As it turns out, however, Spotify users aren’t too keen on having their listening…

If you’re going to push through with a burglary, then you’d better make sure that there’s little that can connect you with the crime in question. Leaving your cell phone behind – yeah, that’s a huge no no; leaving your cell phone that’s connected to your Facebook page – even worse. 24 year old Oscar…

There are some criminals who make things too easy for the cops, like this one guy who accidentally posted a picture of himself on his victim’s Facebook page. According to the report, the victim’s car was broken into last September 26. The only thing taken was the victim’s purse, which contained most of her valuables.…