You may not think you're sharing with many people when using Facebook's "Friends of Friends" privacy setting, but two degrees of separation actually goes a long way.
It’s large and in charge: Facebook Timeline’s here to stay, so do you love it or hate it? Mostly hate it, according to a security firm poll of more than 4,000 Facebook users.
It’s on — at least partially: Reddit has announced that it will be going dark for 12 hours to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said that he hopes to coordinate with the site so that Wikipedia does the same. Will other sites join in? Should we prepare for the Great Internet Strike of 2012?
Around 40% of Facebook users access the social networking site via mobile app, according to a research firm, with half of all active iOS and Android users (as well as an estimated 70% of BlackBerry users) installing the Facebook app.
On the one hand, it’s easy to predict where social media’s going over the next 12 months: more of the same, with the sublime, ridiculous and mundane occurring in equal amounts, both reaffirming and quashing our faith in humanity and technology. But a social media roadmap for 2012? I’m not sure anyone knows what that looks like at this point.
Facebook users outside of the U.S., you can breathe a little easier: The social media giant has been told that it can no longer indefinitely keep data about which ads you’ve been clicking on, and it’ll have to think twice about its data collection security in general, following an official review of its international operations.
It sounds like Yahoo! likes its Facebook integration—the company announced yesterday that it will roll out the feature to 26 additional sites, including Yahoo! TV, Yahoo! Movies and Yahoo! Games, following the success of the launch period, which has seen more than one million Yahoo! stories shared on the social network, with a daily average of 500,000 referrals to Yahoo! from Facebook.
Ever noticed that your Facebook friends occasionally seem to be advertising products to you in the form of a post telling that they “like” a particular brand or product? That’s what Facebook calls a “Sponsored Story,” and a San Francisco court has just ruled that it might be unfair exploitation of Facebook’s users.
Here’s one you probably didn’t see coming: Facebook has set its legal hounds on Mark Zuckerberg. Confused? Perhaps it’ll make more sense if I mention this: There’s more than one Mark Zuckerberg in the scenario.
Just how much money does Facebook have on hand? According to internal figures apparently leaked to Gawker.com, the answer is somewhere in the region of $3.5 billion in cash, with assets worth an additional $5.6 billion. The figures run between January and September of 2011, and also include the company’s debt ($0) and shareholder equity ($4.5 [...]
Can Facebook get you a job? Well, on the face of things, no. Clearly, you’d have to have something approaching the right qualifications and skills to actually get the gig. But social media is definitely helping; according to a new study by Jobvite and MBA Online, one in six workers used social media to help [...]
