Facebook staff and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will meet today to discuss the social network’s growing privacy problems. Criticism of Facebook’s privacy practices is reaching a fevered pitch about how the world’s largest social network uses and shares the personal information of its users. According to sources, no official privacy changes will be announced at the […]
Mining Twitter Buzz Could Replace Opinion Polls
Mining tweets on Twitter can be as reliable as conducting lengthy, labor-intensive public opinion polls. A recent study from Carnegie Mellon found that sampling and analyzing Twitter tweets for data is as good as conducting an opinion poll in some cases. According to the Twitter study, computer analysis of opinions expressed in a billion Twitter […]
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What Facebook Is For
Every wondered what Facebook is for? Or maybe you are an avid Facebook user and think you already know the answer. Either way, this short animated video takes an honest and funny look at the modern Facebook addiction. […]
How To Quit Facebook
As Facebook privacy problems grow and people learn that Facebook often shares their personal information with third party data mining sites, more users are opting to quit the Facebook social network. A Google search for “how to quit Facebook” finds over 18 million results. In addition, some prominent technology professionals, like Google’s Matt Cutts, are […]
Woman Arrested For Threatening Police On Facebook
A Manassas, VA woman has been arrested for posting threats against local police on Facebook. Prince William County Police said Ginger Slattery, a 43-year-old hairdresser, threatened to harm police officers on her Facebook page. Police have charged Slattery with using her Facebook account to threaten to kill police officers; threatening to blow up the police […]
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