Tag: FACEBOOKGROUPS

A new year is just around the corner, which means it's time to go through the timeless annual rite of Facebook cleansing. After all, it's been a long year, and you've made a lot of new friends. That's certainly great news for your social life, but this newfound friendship has probably complicated your Facebook life too. Random acquaintances, long-forgotten crushes, anonymous former colleagues -- ...

Over the course of the past few months, the Egyptian government has taken a particularly hard-line stance against Facebook-based activism, many authorities believing it to pose a legitimate threat to President Hosni Mubarak. In March, a military tribunal unsuccessfully attempted to silence a controversial blogger named Ahmed Mustafa, barely three years after Egypt had jailed another writer for ...

Your mom may be a compulsive Facebooker, but does that necessarily make her a spammer? According to Facebook's security system, it does. When the social network launched its new Groups feature a few weeks ago, many mothers, like Lucy Berry of Kansas, began using the tool to share parenting tips and stories between themselves. But because some of them posted so incessantly, Facebook ...

Share Facebook, for many users, has always been something of a digital mosh pit -- an amorphous sphere where friends, family and acquaintances from all corners of our lives converge to form the silky strands of our social webs. Simply browsing through a News Feed, to a certain extent, is like leafing through the pages of a living scrapbook. One minute, you're carefully deciphering your ...

Share As is expected anytime Facebook changes something or unveils a new feature, the overhauled Groups is becoming a target of a backlash. Unlike the whining that so often follows these redesigns, however, the most recent reaction seems to have a legitimate basis. Shortly after the new, simpler Groups tool launched, Mark Zuckerberg, TechCrunch founder (and new member of the AOL family) Michael ...

This afternoon, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled three new Facebook products in a rather wordy press conference. The first two updates deal largely with user data, portability and control. Zuck spoke about the ability of Facebook Connect to bring your personal information to other sites and services, but lamented the inability to easily take that information and look at it yourself. "Download your ...

French workers, in an entirely unorthodox turn of events, have gone on strike today to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to raise the national retirement age by a couple of years. If recent history is any indication, today's strike will make headlines around the country, but it certainly won't do the kind of damage that Facebook recently did to French Immigration Minister Eric Besson's ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/04/14/angry-towing-company-sues-student-for-750k-over-facebook-page/'; Share Social networking sites are, in most parts of the world, the modern day equivalent of town halls, where people can gather round and share opinions -- as long as those opinions don't attack T&J Towing Company. The company, based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. filed a defamation ...

Awkward and uncomfortable comedy has become quite the rage recently, as shows like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' 'The Office,' and 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' have become incredibly popular and common. There's a fine line between that type of squirm-inducing hilarity and just being blatantly stupid, though, and that line gets crossed every day on Facebook. That absence of humor most ...

Being the top social networking site also means that Facebook is a primo target for hackers, as we've seen time and time again. For the first time, though, a spate of Facebook hacks have come from hijackers claiming they did it for educational purposes. Earlier this week, a group of disgruntled Facebook users created fictional accounts and took advantage of a loophole that allows any member of ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/11/02/14-year-old-leads-facebook-insurgency-group/'; Facebook's tyrannical, inexplicable decision to redesign the site yet again has infuriated more than a million users, and sparked a latent revolutionary fervor and profound anger the likes of which we haven't seen in, like, months. This burgeoning uprising, however, has so far lacked that one leader. ...

An elite group of Facebook employees, tasked with identifying content that violates the site's nebulous terms-of-service, is sitting at the heart of a free speech battle that could have far-reaching consequences across the whole of the Internet. This week, Facebook banned two Holocaust denial groups, but it took an overwhelming flood of criticism to get the site to take action. According to the ...

Facing increasing bad publicity and pressure from members and Web denizens, Facebook yesterday confirmed the removal of two Holocaust denial groups from the social networking service. The groups -- "Based on the facts...there was no Holocaust" and "Holocaust is a Holohoax" -- were aimed at folks who for some inexplicable reason seem to think the Holocaust never happened. According to an e-mail ...

Breastfeeding mothers who seek to share photos of their suckling babies have been embroiled in a war with Facebook since way back in 2007, when the site began removing photos of nursing mothers. Much to the anger of these "lactivists," the social networking site deemed the photos to be "obscene content," hence their removal. Michael Arrington, TechCrunch's rumorist extraordinaire, recently took a ...

Someone with either a sick, demented sense of humor or, more likely, an actual mental disorder, started a Facebook group called "I Heart Jews," then changed its name to "Hitler: Great Modern Man of History" once it had amassed over 2,000 members. Some members, of course, reacted strongly, with one calling it "despicable," while another said they were "absolutely appalled," according to Fox ...