Facebook says it’s clamped down on pornographic and violent images spread by malicious code introduced by hackers.
What Are You Listening To? Facebook Users Share Music 1.5 Billion Times in Two Months
Facebook users really, really want their friends to know what they’re listening to. According to numbers released by the social networking giant yesterday, users have shared their listening activity more than 1.5 billion times in …
Facebook Boston? Zuckerberg Recruits Harvard, MIT Students
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned to his alma mater—Harvard—today on a recruiting swing for the world’s most popular social network. He made another trip to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well. I caught the (very) brief press conference at MIT, where Zuckerberg only had time to answer a few questions.
The …
Watch Negative Tweets Disappear… on Facebook?
When it comes to advertisers trying to reach out into the world of social media, results tend to veer wildly between “inspired” and “oh please make it go away I can’t unsee that oh no.” Or, in the case of the new Mentos “Negative Tweet Eliminator,” just plain confusing.
Don’t get me wrong; the idea of an app that “destroys” tweets …
Our Friends Electric: Facebook Info Open to ‘Socialbot’ Snooping
Perhaps it’s time to start paying more attention to whom you’re friending on Facebook. A recent study designed to evaluate how safe social networks are from being invaded by programs pretending to be real people resulted in more than 250GB of personal information being collected from thousands of Facebook users by the researchers’ …
How to Get Your Underage Kid on Facebook: Just Lie!
Hey parents, did you know Facebook has an age limit, or don’t you care? Turns out it’s the latter for most of you: Facebook sets the minimum age threshold at 13, a point I, too, was ignorant of until this study popped up, indicating that virtually all parents of underage kids that sign into Facebook on the sly are aware of and in fact …
If Zuck Had a Time Machine, Facebook May Have Stayed in Boston
In an interview with Startup School’s Jessica Livingston this weekend, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that had he known what he knows now, he may have kept Facebook in Boston instead of moving out to Silicon Valley. The entire interview can be found here—the part with Zuckerberg starts near the 43-minute mark, and the …
Facebook Announces New ‘Trusted Friends’ Security Feature
Now you can get back into your Facebook account with a little help from your friends: Facebook just announced a new feature called Trusted Friends, which uses—surprise, surprise—your social network to log you back in if you forget your password.
This is how it works: First, you pick five Facebook friends you trust. If you get …
Nextflix: Who Could Take the Streaming Video Crown?
If Netflix does, in fact, continue its slow implosion and disappear into the coldness of internet irrelevance, one question seems to be left unsaid: Who will take over where it left off? Who profits from Netflix’s demise the most?
According to Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne, cable and satellite companies should be …
25 Facebook Profiles You Should Subscribe to Right Now
Facebook’s new subscribe feature has been live for a few weeks. Take a look as we honor our favorites from Facebook, from the savvy digitalists to the up-and-coming social scamps.
Timelines.com Explains Why It’s Suing Facebook over ‘Timeline’
The problem with suing a company like Facebook is that sometimes people don’t travel much beyond hearing the words “suing a company like Facebook” before getting defensive about their chosen social network. No wonder, then, that Timelines.com is taking to the Internet to explain why it’s trying to defend itself from being crushed by the …
Does Facebook Make Your Brain Bigger?
How social you are on social networks may depend on the size of your brain, according to new research. Or, at least, the size of your superior temporal sulcus, middle temporal gyrus, entorhinal cortex and amygdalae.
The research, from University College in London, discovered that those who are more social in general tend to have …