With recent changes to Facebook, it turns out that Facebook is now choosing which friends' news feeds to show you in the live feed view, and, essentially, blocking all the rest! Meaning that all of your other friends are blocked from being shown in your live feed update! Here's how to undo that and get all of your Facebook friends' live feed news back.
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Articles on FacebookWith recent changes to Facebook, it turns out that Facebook is now choosing which friends' news feeds to show you in the live feed view, and, essentially, blocking all the rest! Meaning that all of your other friends are blocked from being shown in your live feed update! Here's how to undo that and get all of your Facebook friends' live feed news back. As more and more people go mobile - and more and more people join Facebook - it's only natural that more and more people want to combine the two, and have Facebook and m login (shorthand these days for "mobile login"). Happily, there is a mobile Facebook login page, and there is also a Facebook mobile application for just about every smartphone out there, so you can m login to your heart's content. So if you're wondering "how do I access Facebook on my phone?", read on to learn about the ways to mobile login to Facebook, and about some of the Facebook mobile applications that are available. With the recent Facebook poking arrest, a lot of people want to know what it means to "poke" someone on Facebook. A Facebook poke is basically a way of waving at someone from across Facebook. A poke on Facebook is a shorthand way of saying "Yo, I'm thinking of you." In addition to wondering "what is a poke on Facebook", a lot of people wonder "When you poke someone on Facebook does anyone else see it?" Keep reading for the answer to that, and all the information about poking on Facebook, including how to do it, and how to know if you've been poked on Facebook. It's no secret that Facebook has an.. interesting ... view of user privacy. In fact, Facebook CEO Mark Zucker recently suggested that Facebook users (should) have no expectation of privacy. Now to add insult to the complete-lack-of-privacy injury, starting a few days ago, Facebook applications now have permission to grab your email address - that is to require that you divulge your email address before you can use their application. Facebook quietly implemented a brand new feature this week - and it's a feature that many of us are very happy to see! While there was no official announcement, yesterday people started seeing this in the email notifications of comments to their Facebook status: "New Feature: Reply to this email to comment on this status." The so-called Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - a service provided by Moddr that lets you delete all of your social media accounts at once (or as they put it, "delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego") - has certainly gotten the attention of Facebook. It started with Facebook blocking the IP addresses of the social networking suicide machine and similar services, however now Facebook has taken the much more aggressive action of sending the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine a Cease and Desist letter. Which means that Facebook is prepared to sue someone for helping people who don't want to be on Facebook close their Facebook accounts. It's no secret that Facebook regularly has its share of privacy issues, many of which are their own doing. Now Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has given a talk in which he says, in effect, "Our users don't want privacy." Sick and tired of Facebook's new and "improved" News Feed on your home page? Even their "Live Feed" not cutting it for you? Want the old-style 'status updates' back? Here's how to give that "News Feed" and "Live Feed" the boot, and get those good old status updates back. If you get an email that supposedly comes from Facebook com, directing you to follow a link to your Facebook login page (for example, to use the "new login system"), ask yourself "Does this link really go to my Facebook login page?" Then check by hovering over the link, to see where it really goes. Odds are good that it will go to a fake Facebook log in URL, not to the real Facebook sign in link. This is an effort to steal your Facebook log in password, and as more people hack Facebook, create a Facebook virus, or perpetrate a Facebook imposter scam or other Facebook scams, you will find more and more of these in your inbox. Many Facebook problems and Facebook risks can be avoided if you are careful about clicking on links in email; for example, if Facebook used email to try to get you to do something with your Facebook profile, then you will see that same message waiting for you if you simply type "facebook .com" in your browser, and login to your Facebook profile directly instead of clicking on the link. If that message isn't waiting for you in your Facebook inbox, then you know you just dodged a Facebook hack that was trying to steal your login Facebook credentials. (For more Facebook help and information go here.) Craig Lynch, also known as Craig Lazie Lynch (not sure why it's "Lazie" instead of Craig Lazy Lynch) escaped from Britain's Hollesley Bay Prison more than 3 months ago, on September 23rd. Still on the lam, he hasn't gone underground - in fact, far from it. In fact, Craig Lazie Lynch has been driving British law enforcement mad by regularly updating his Facebook profile, taunting authorities and building a huge following of fans in the process. We've received rafts of concerns about the newest Facebook Privacy Announcement and the new Facebook privacy policies - and even about Facebook's privacy policies policies (like the policy of forcing you to revisit their privacy policies repeatedly, and requiring you to confirm what appear to be new settings or keep your "old settings" without giving you a chance to see or understand what your "old settings" were to start with). Now this is new! If you have a Facebook account, searching for your name in Google will turn up not only a link to your Facebook page, but includes a list of your friends, as well! And that's even if your privacy settings on Facebook are set to disallow public access, such as the "only My Networks and Friends can see my profile and personal info" settings. Nathalie Blanchard had been out for a year-and-a-half on paid long-term sick (disability) leave following a diagnosis of severe depression. That is, until her insurance company, Manulife, got a gander at the pictures she'd posted to Facebook, which showed a smiling Natalie Blanchard at a Chippendales (male strip) bar, at a birthday party, and on vacation at the beach. In case you hadn't heard of the Facebook poking arrest that happened last month, Shannon D. Jackson was arrested for 'poking' Dana Hannah on Facebook - meaning that Jackson used the Facebook "poke" function to "poke" Hannah which, while perhaps rude, childish, and annoying, doesn't usually rise to the level of an arrestable offense. However in this case, it is alleged that the poke violated the terms of a protection order (think "restraining order") which Hannah had in place against Jackson. Now the whole thing has been referred to a grand jury. Facebook has been in the news quite a bit lately (stay tuned for our upcoming story on the woman who was arrested for poking someone on Facebook!), and there is increasing awareness over just how intrusive and invading of their users' privacy many of their money-making practices are, such as using their users (you and your Facebook friends) in their Facebook advertising. Here's a real-life example of someone being used in Facebook ads, and information on how to opt out and stop Facebook from doing it to you. A 19-year-old New York man has been released from New York's notorious Rikers Island jail after a court agreed with his Facebook alibi that he couldn't have been robbing two people at gunpoint while at the same time posting a status update to Facebook from his father's house, twelve miles away from the scene of the crime. Facebook has announced a policy of allowing the profiles of deceased users to remain up, as a sort of "memorialization" or tribute to the user. Sometime in the past week somebody created and posted a poll on Facebook asking whether President Obama should be assassinated. The poll asked "Should Obama be killed?" The answer choices were "yes", "no", "maybe", and "if he cuts my health care." Microsoft isn't the only company to be stealing things from rivals this week. And it appears that the data from your Facebook inbox isn't the only thing that Facebook is mining. This week we discovered that Facebook has apparently cribbed Twitter's famous @username protocol for getting someone's attention. While this was announced last month, nobody really noticed it until this week. Facebook has created new features that allow developers to mine your Facebook inbox for data. In addition to the content of your email, it allows applications to make note of who are the recipients of a mail thread, and the time and date of the emails. Facebook announced earlier this week that they had passed the 300million user mark, and that they are making money or, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg put it this week, they are cash flow positive. Put another way, Facebook is raking in the revenue. A plague of rogue Facebook applications that are stealing user credentials - such as usernames and passwords - has been sweeping Facebook in the past week. The phishing Facebook apps work the same way that many other applications do - including sending an email to your Facebook friends, with links to click on, and when you type in your username and password, BAM! Your login credentials have been stolen. By now you may have read about how Tracy Turkish Brooks and her "other pussy" had an embarrassing Facebook moment when she - supposedly - posted a very steamy note to "Michael", and accidentally published it for the world to see instead of sending it via private Facebook email. The post, which was real enough, read "Thank you too, Micheal, I had a great time as well.I'm glad you enjoyed my OTHER pussy ;). I must admit, I haven't had sex in a while, so getting mounted by such a strong and powerful man was a pleasant surprise after so many long months of ...abstinence. I hope this message doesn't scare you off, I just wanted you to know what a wonderful time I had with you.You are permanently invited to "the love cave between my legs"" However, while the post was real, by all accounts, the person who posted it was not Tracy Turkish Brooks - rather, her Facebook account was hacked. A group of Facebook users has sued Facebook for violation of their privacy, and privacy law in general. The group, which includes two children under the age of thirteen, an actress, and a professional photographer, have sued Facebook in California Superior Court, alleging that Facebook's practices violate California online privacy laws which make it illegal to reveal users' private data for commercial gain. While the Internet is all abuzz about how Facebook and Friendfeed have just announced that Facebook is acquiring FriendFeed, the bigger coup may be in that in the doing, Facebook has effectively acquired FriendFeed founders Bret Taylor and Paul Buchheit, and Jim Norris and Sanjeev Singh. Hey, it happens. There are any number of reasons why you may want to "unfriend" someone from Facebook - that is, remove them from your friends list. It isn't necessarily personal, in fact it usually isn't. Perhaps you don't really know the person that well; perhaps you or they use Facebook primarily for business and your uses of Facebook don't jive. Or perhaps they overuse the Facebook invitation process or the sending-you-cute-non-existent-items-via-Facebook process. Whatever the reason, it's perfectly acceptable to remove somebody from your Facebook friends. But how do you unfriend someone on Facebook? It's actually pretty simple, once you know how. If you use Gmail, and also use Facebook, it can be very easy for someone to password crack and access your Gmail account using Gmail's recover password retrieval feature. This is because Gmail's access password recovery feature allows anybody to guess the answer to your "forgot password" reset security question. And if the answer to your forgotten password reset security question happens to be information easily gleaned from your Facebook account (or some other social network information), then password hacking your Gmail account is as easy as typing in that password protection answer. (And we use the term "password protection" loosely.) A class action lawsuit has been filed against Facebook, alleging that Facebook is charging advertisers for more clicks than their ads actually receive, and also that Facebook is not doing enough to curtail click fraud which is resulting, the lawsuit says, from competitors clicking on an advertiser's Facebook advertisment in order to use up their allotted clicks and run up the advertiser's Facebook advertising bill. As online society becomes ever more social, and cares ever less about personal security, the phrase "social security" seems more than ever an oxymoron. Perhaps nowhere is this more clearly brought home than in this week's announcement by researchers at Carnegie Mellon that they have cracked the social security code, and were able to predict with frightening accuracy many social sercurity numbers (SSN). In many cases, their hack was aided by information gleaned from such social networking sites as Facebook. Yes, it's true. Starbucks is giving away free pints of ice cream, via Facebook. How it works is that, through the Star bucks Facebook application, you can send a certificate for one free pint of Starbuck's icecream to a Facebook friend. To send a free Starbucks free ice cream, just follow the following easy steps. (Sorry, you can’t get the free pint for yourself - you’ll have to have a friend send it to you!) Facebook has found itself in the rather unusual (some would say "indefensible") position of booting from Facebook people with odd or unusual names, while refusing to boot pro-Nazi groups who deny that the Holocaust ever happened (so-called "Holocaust deniers"). Proving that it really wants to be the hip Internet administration, the WhiteHouse now has a Twitter account, a Facebook page, and a MySpace Page. Check out the Whitehouse Twitter account, Whitehouse Facebook account, and Whitehouse MySpace account here. It's one of Facebook's dirty little secrets, even though it's been publicly available information for more than a year. Facebook takes information that you post, and sells it to advertisers who can use it in ads that are displayed to your friends. For example, if I posted "Eating Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream", Ben & Jerry's could then show an ad to all of my Facebook friends saying "Anne is eating Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream - shouldn't you too?" The service is part of Facebook's "Facebook beacons" service for advertisers, and the ads in which your Facebook info is displayed are called "Facebook Social Ads". And if you don't explicitly opt out of them, then you are fair game. Gary Waters is one lucky perp. Already on parole for a burglery rap, he was arrested for gun possession, and went to trial. And then, he was acquitted because of comments that the arresting officer Vaughan Ettienne had made on Facebook and MySpace. Less than a week after Facebook announced its new Terms of Service (TOS), Facebook has announced that they are going back to the TOS drawing board, and have reinstated their old Terms of Service in the meantime. They are also requesting user input via the Facebook group called "The Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities". Facebook has responded to the concern engendered by the new Facebook TOS with a post by none other than Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg himself. In his comments, Zuckerberg tries to allay the fears of Facebook users by saying that even though the new Facebook TOS says that Facebook can use all user-generated content however they want, and forever, they wouldn't really do so. Unfortunately, that doesn't cut it. Facebook (FB) has recently updated their Terms of Service (TOS), and among the new changes is this dandy: once you post something to Facebook you can't take it back. Meaning that even if you close your account, by using Face book you have granted them a perpetual, eternal license to do whatever they want with your content. An 18-year-old boy has been charged with blackmailing as many as 31 teen boys into having sex with him. Anthony Stancl - who calls himself Tony Stancil - of New Berlin, Wisconsin, tricked his victims by posing as a girl on Facebook, and having his victims send nude pictures and videos of themselves to "her". Then Anthony Stancil told them that if they didn't have sex with him, or let him perform a sex act on them, that he would post the pictures and videos to the Internet. As early as 2007, Facebook began quietly censoring pictures of breastfeeding babies which members had posted to their Facebook profiles. They did this by simply removing the pictures of the nursing babies after they were posted. In some cases, users were warned if they continued posting such "obscene" content, they stood to lose their Facebook accounts. Now the issue is heating up, and Facebook is not backing down. Facebook - you win the booby prize. An Australian court has allowed someone to be served with notice of a lawsuit - by message on Facebook! Inq Mobile has released the INQ1, which is being touted as "The Facebook Phone". That is because the Facebook Phone's functionality is actually built around Facebook, and other social networking. In essence, it's a social network device first while, oh yeah, it's also a mobile phone. Facebook the Movie? Can it be? Yes, it can, and it is. It's true. Aaron Sorkin, creator of the awesome television series "The West Wing" and the movie "A Few Good Men", is creating the Facebook Movie for Sony. A new worm is raising havoc for Facebook and MySpace users. Called Koobface (and alternatively the Facebook Worm, MySpace Worm, Facebook Virus, or MySpace Virus), the MySpace and Facebook worm posts messages on Facebook and MySpace with links to what it claims to be a video. When the users follow the Koobface MySpace or Facebook worm link, they are told that they need to update their video player, and to "click here". Of course, what they download isn't really a video player update, it's a trojan called "codecsetup.exe" which allows their computer to be taken over and controlled remotely. The rise in social media sites such as Facebook and Myspace has been a boon for prosecutors, who are finding incriminating pictures on such sites - pictures which have been admitted as evidence in court, and used to increase penalties, sentences, and prison time! |
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