1. Just check your frickin’ privacy settings. You’ll be happier knowing that your profile is locked down and no nasty corporations are stealing your thoughts. Use this thingamyjig
There has been a lot of talk about Facebook and privacy all through its history, but especially so in the last month, since some new changes were made. What this post will attempt to do is to clarify what changes have taken place; secondly, the reaction to these changes; thirdly, what they mean on a […]
From Steven O’Hear at TechCrunch Europe, my eyes popped out of my head when I read this – and it’s a feature, not a flaw. As an example, a privacy quirk on Facebook appears to produce the following scenario: User A sends a friend-request to user B but they choose not to accept, at least […]
..it seems like a lot of you are spinning fibs. This ‘survey’, conducted by an ‘agency’, published via ‘release’, apparently found that half of social media users – that’s you! – don’t use their real names. Perish the thought that anyone be economical with the truth on the internet … CHUBB CP : Many Don’t […]
Senators tell Facebook: tighten privacy policy (from the Washington Post). This seems to happen every time Facebook make changes, and although this time it is a bit more insidious – if you sign up for a new profile today, your privacy settings are automatically set to public, unlike previously – I still can’t see this […]