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Location based or check-in apps started gaining popularity about a year ago. These are social networks specializing in location based applications for smart phones. There are quite a few to choose from, Foursquare, BrightKite, Gowalla, MyTown, DodgeBall, Whrrl, Loopt and the latest player in the bandwagon, Facebook Places. Although different sites have different features, the common [...]
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Facebook Places – How safe is it?
The recently launched Facebook Places mobile application has been a hot topic these past few days among social media users. It is a location-based feature that lets you share where you are and what you’re up to, with your friends. You can also tag your friends and view their comments about the location you are [...]
The Future of Online Socializing
Pew Research Center, an American think tank organization based in Washington, D.C. that provides information on issues, attitudes and trends shaping the U.S. and the world, states that “the social benefits of internet use will far outweigh the negatives over the next decade.” Their reasoning behind this is because email, social networks, and other online [...]
Facebook’s Plan To Automatically Share Your Data
Facebook recently announced that is was making changes to it’s privacy policy once again.
Beware of Facebook Password Reset Malware
Facebook is warning users about an ongoing campaign using social engineering to get you to install malware on your computer.
AT&T Flaw Let’s Facebook Users See Accounts
A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a scary place: strangers accounts with full access to private information.
Facebook’s Beacon Lawsuit for Privacy Violations
How closely do you read the privacy notice of various sites that you use online, especially social networking sites? For Facebook users, they became part of a program called Beacon that published the users actions on other sites to their Facebook profile. To do this, Facebook was gathering data on the activity of its users [...]
Recognize Phishing Emails
Phishing, the attempt to gather personal information like passwords and bank account numbers, is a major problem for both personal and business users. By learning to spot these harmful attacks, you can protect yourself and your accounts. Read on to learn more about phishing.
Koobface Rash
We’ve had a rash of koobface going around and resolved every one of them. So what is koobface and how can you protect yourself? Koobface, an anagram of Facebook, is a computer worm that targets the users of the social networking websites Facebook, MySpace, hi5, Bebo, Friendster and Twitter. Koobface ultimately attempts, upon successful infection, [...]
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