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As the worldwide use of Facebook continues to grow, more and more scams are appearing on the popular social networking website. Using promos, “interesting” links and all other sorts of strategies to trap you, a grain of salt is always needed when dealing with things outside of what Facebook offers.
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The knee-jerk reaction to Facebook of most businesses is to throw it out the door. But many companies also need to realize the value of using a massive social networking platform like Facebook to help the business grow and put itself out in the market more.
When it comes to Facebook, the usual default attitude of [...]

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Facebook was recently invaded by a robot army, created by four researchers, to demonstrate the ease with which online social networks can be maliciously exploited by the unscrupulous. With a horde of 102 bogus Facebook friends, researchers at the University of British Columbia showed that they could harvest personal information about members that is not [...]

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A Facebook user has filed a federal lawsuit against the social networking giant, claiming it violated wiretap laws with a tracking cookie that records web browsing history after logging off of Facebook. John Graham, a 42-year-old Leawood KS lawyer, is the named plaintiff in the lawsuit filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Kansas. [...]

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The premise of a new Facebook app called “If I Die” is sweet if a little morbid: You record a video message that will be played for your loved ones after your death. As the app advertisement says: “Death can catch you anywhere, anytime. Leave your If I Die message before it’s too late.”
There’s just [...]

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All the phone numbers in your phone are now on Facebook, warns an alarmed statement making the rounds on the social network, and the numbers are there whether you’ve allowed the site access to them or not.
That’s not exactly true, Facebook argues, noting that the feature has existed for over a year. But users, just [...]

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Apparently, “Anonymous” won’t be accepting your friend request. Members of the shadowy collective known for its politically motivated Web hacks and attacks are targeting Facebook for what they claim to be the social-networking giant’s misuse of personal information.
“Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed,” the speaker said in a YouTube [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – June 8 — Facebook has quietly expanded the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos, renewing concerns about the privacy practices of the world’s top social networking service.
The feature, which Facebook automatically enabled for Facebook users, has been expanded from the United States to “most countries”, Facebook said on [...]

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Facebook phishing scams that trick users into clicking malicious links in the status posts of victimized friends have been making headlines lately. The newest Facebook phishing scam, however, doesn’t even require the victim to be logged into Facebook; instead, fake emails claiming to be from Facebook are tricking users into giving up their personal information.
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With the growth of social networking, it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate business connections with personal connections.
November 17, 2010 was declared by Jimmy Kimmel during his television show as “National Unfriend Day”, the opportunity for all Facebook users to declutter their Facebook pages by “unfriending” people in their friends lists. He claims that Facebook [...]

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