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01 Nov 09

Don’t Be A Featured Loser: Facebook Helps Out The Unpopular

  • Who knows what levels Facebook will go to to ensure that your unpopularity turns into a mocking sideshow like the one above. Don’t be that guy. Find some friends and convince them to leave a wall post every week or two. The last thing you want is to be a Featured Loser

Watching me watching you - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition

  • Formal surveillance means one CCTV camera per 14 citizens in the UK
  • Yet, the actual extent of commercial surveillance on Facebook remains murky. According to their privacy policy, Facebook retains the right to collect information about their members from other sources such as newspapers, instant messaging services and blogs “to provide you with more useful information and a more personalised experience”. By using Facebook, you also consent to have your personal data transferred to, and processed in, the US. Users are not notified when and how their data is used. In 2008 the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, a privacy group, filed a complaint against Facebook for violating 22 ∞counts of Canadian privacy laws
30 Sep 09

2008 Egyptian general strike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The wikipedia entry on 6th of April 2008 Mahalla strike is inflating the importance of #FB and cyber-activists

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Egypt Bloggers Mahalla Facebook Workers

07 Aug 09

It's SO over: cool cyberkids abandon social networking sites | Media | The Guardian

  • Overall, 30% of British adults have a social networking profile, against 21% in 2007 when Ofcom first did the research. Half the UK's online population have a Facebook profile and spend an average of nearly six hours a month on the site compared with four hours in May 2008.
  • The arrival of the 25- to 34-year-old age group, meanwhile, also appears to be behind the explosion in usage of Twitter.

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Facebook tools about Israel

  • "The realization that young people are increasingly living life through their Facebook accounts recently gave birth to a new and potentially powerful tool in the fight for Israel's image. Observing this phenomenon, a group of 23 students from Jerusalem's Hebrew University came up with a small application which uses the Facebook "status line" to inform hundreds of thousands of users at any given moment about positive facts about Israel." I have a better tool. I have installed a special Facebook tool that informs me regularly about facts about Israel: about massacres, wars, aggression, racism, occupation, bombings, fabrications, lies, and stupidity of its intelligence service.
05 Jul 09

BBC NEWS | UK | MI6 boss in Facebook entry row

  • "It is not a state secret that he wears Speedo swimming trunks, for goodness sake let's grow up.
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