When the Cookie Tracking issue on Facebook first exploded, users and non-users were aghast to find out that the social networking site could possibly be tracking our online activity. But Facebook brushed it off with an excuse saying that all information gathered through the cookies are “anonymized” and that they were only doing it for…

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The Weekly World News strikes again! This spoof site has been responsible for several Facebook hoaxes in the past. Their latest story spreading rapidly on Facebook claims that Casey Anthony adopted a 2 year-old girl from Eastern Europe. Clicking the wall post takes you to the full, yet bogus story: If you look around this…

“Friends” is a term that has already been bastardized by social networking services such as Facebook. Before, the people we call friends usually consisted of a small group of persons with whom we have shared meaningful experiences with. Now, however, our friend lists are saturated with the names of people we don’t even talk to…

A few months ago, a group calling themselves “Europe v. Facebook” emerged. This group consisted mostly of Europeans who were sick and tired of how Facebook allegedly violates a person’s privacy and keeps more data about the user than was originally intended. The group, headed by law student Max Schrems, filed 22 complaints with Ireland’s…

If you want all traces of your Facebook activities deleted, all you need to do is to go to your account settings and deactivate your account. Of course, it’s not really deleted. As we have covered in the past, your data is still sitting on a Facebook server somewhere. In fact, you can easily summon…

Andrew Noyes, a Facebook representative, told Mashable the following: “We have recently experienced an increase in reports and we are investigating and addressing the issue.” There has been much speculation on who originated and orchestrated the recent pornographic spam attack. Some went so far as to claim Anonymous had hacked Facebook and was the culprit.…

Privacy and security issues in social media are obviously a huge concern to many of the people who use these types of sites. Most of the people who actually show their personal information don’t understand the consequences they could face, and the others probably don’t care. It is more important now than ever before to…

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Facebook is often an outlet for some people – a place where their innermost thoughts can be shared with friends. The wisdom of using it for such, however, is highly questionable. Many people have lost their jobs or gotten suspended from school because they had a case of “TMI” on their Facebook wall. In fact,…

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Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are said to be on the verge of reaching a settlement over the company’s privacy practices – a settlement that would fly in the face of how Facebook has implemented new features in the past. The changes would definitely go a long way in helping users obtain the…