Without question, the biggest Creep of this past week goes to Michael Williams, the 29-year-old pedophile from the UK. Williams admitted to 27 charges including enticing sexual activity, grooming children and having sex with a child under 16. Williams further admitted to four charges of enticing 460 children to commit sex acts over the internet.…

One of the major stories of the week was the massive Facebook outage that occurred on Thursday. Robert Johnson, a senior engineer with Facebook stated that it was the worst such outage the site has experienced in over four years. Apparently, the reason for the outage was due to a software issue and its error…

Scam Signature Message: This Girl killed herself after her dad Posted something on her wall!! Scam Link: http://bit.ly/g1QKxv (scam uses many others links) Scam Type: Survey scam Trending: December 2010 Why it’s a Scam: When you click on the Wall post link you are taken to the following screen: When you “Click Here” you are…

Diaspora, the privacy focused Facebook rival released an Alpha version of its core code this week, and is now opening the project up to the developer community. The announcement came with much fanfare and glee, but that was to be short lived. Shortly after the code release, privacy and security pundits chimed in with their…

Scam Name: OMG This GUY Went A Little To Far WITH His Revenge On His EX Girlfriend.” Facebook Scam Scam Signature Message: The scam’s modus operandi is to appear in a status update with the message: “OMG This GUY Went A Little To Far WITH His Revenge On His EX Girlfriend.” Scam Link: When you…

Once again, the past week has shown us that social media is a double edged sword. It could catapult people into instant fame or instant notoriety. It could be used as a weapon for crime just as it could be used to catch crooks. Bottom line is, no matter how social media is used, we…

Facebook has been pretty prominent on the media this week with some news touching on light topics and yet some touching on the more serious aspects of social media.   Facebook Launches Page Discovery “Browser”: for one, Facebook seems to be experimenting on yet another innovation designed to strengthen the popularity of its Facebook pages.…

Scam Name: Cheerleaders Gone Wild Facebook Scam Scam Signature Message: Cheerleaders gone wild – have to see this                 image credit: http://sophos.com Scam Link: Various Scam Type: Clickjacking scam Trending: September 2010 Why it’s a Scam: When you click on the link, you are taken to a page…

Scam Name: OMG! Look What this Kid did to his School after being Expelled! Scam Signature Message: Scam Link: http://badschoolkid.weebly.com/ Scam Type: Clickjacking / Survey scam Trending: September 2010 Why it’s a Scam: Clicking on the link takes you to a page where you have to “like” the page. You then have to complete a…

Scam Name: Facebook Survey Stuff Scam Scam Signature Message: * I thought this survey stuff was GARBAGE but i just went on a shopping spree at walmart thanks to FB = , this wont last long so gooo! * I thought this survey stuff was BULL** but i swear I just used the Best Buy…

The past couple of weeks has seen social media villains and social media vigilantes collide! A woman in the UK threw a cat in a dumpster. The owners of the cat caught it all on video, and posted the video on Facebook in an attempt to ascertain her identity. Turns out, the woman became fearful…

Facebook Places continued to receive prominent coverage this past week about its features, popularity (or lack thereof) and implementations. Surprisingly, one report stated that 96% of people do not use location based services of any kind. This leaves plenty of opportunity for growth for Places, Four Square and Gowalla. It will be interesting to see…