Another criminal caught on Facebook. Maxi Sopo was a fugitive on the run until he updated his Facebook profile and notified his social network of friends, including a former Justice Department official, that he was hiding out in Cancun, Mexico. Maxi Sopo went on bragging to his Facebook friends about what a good time he […]
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A Facebook Poke Leads to Police Arrest
A Tennessee woman has been arrested for “poking” someone on the Facebook social network. Shannon D. Jackson was arrested on September 25th for allegedly violating a court order of protection. Jackson is accused of using a virtual Facebook “poke” to communicate with a Hendersonville woman, which violates a court order of protection, that states “no […]
Facebook Mines User Data To Measure U.S. Moods
Facebook has mined user data from their social network and produced a graphical representation of the collective happiness of Facebook’s millions of U.S. users. Facebook analyzed information from their database of user updates and scanned for words indicating a particular mood of happy or sad and correlated the updates to the day they were posted. […]
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Facebook Improves Its Social Search Engine
Facebook upgraded its social search engine Monday. The new Facebook search will return better results for profile updates, shared links, pictures, personal videos, as well as posted notes. Facebook beta tested their new social search engine with a selected group of users for about a month and decided to launch the new search upgrade based […]
New Facebook URLs Will Make People Searches Easier
A recent decision by Facebook could make online people searches easier than ever. Facebook announced that, as of this Saturday, they will start publishing URLs ( web addresses ) for user’s profiles, using people’s real names. These new search engine friendly URLs will make finding past friends and family on Facebook through normal search engine […]
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