Category: Facebook People

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” – Mark Twain Everyone knows that Facebook is a great place for people to search for other people and find friends and family; but today, the world’s largest social network became the world’s largest online memorial site, when Facebook mistakenly posted memorial messages at the top of […]

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Even though this is an election year, it may still come as a shock to find out that Facebook has so much personal information on people that they are able to accurately predict whether a person is on the right or left side of politics. Yes, Facebook is reportedly able to determine if a person […]

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Thanks to the social networking power of Facebook, a Minnesota woman has been reunited with her birth mother for the first time in 34 years. Everyone knows that Facebook has helped countless people reunite with old friends and find long-lost family members, but this Facebook reunion story happened in record speed. Facebook has now taken […]

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Warning: this Facebook message will self-destruct in 5 minutes. Self-destructing text messages will soon be a reality for people who use the Facebook Messenger app on their smartphones. In the coming months, Facebook will be offering a “Secret Conversation” option on Facebook Messenger that will give users end-to-end encryption as well as the ability to […]

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There is no doubt that Facebook is in the people business, and that includes collecting as much personal information as they can get on people. Facebook’s “People You May Know” feature uses this personal information to find and suggest social connections between people. However, these friend suggestions are starting to get too personal and weird […]

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