Tag: FACEBOOK GROUPS

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

If you're a Facebook user, there's a strong chance that you've accepted a group invitation from a friend or wondered why so many people have joined 'Brahsome' or 'AM3R!CAN Id0l 4EVAH.' As we've seen in the past, there are groups for everything from parents to retail bashing. They're all in good fun, usually, but some have been found to be a little more malicious. ZDNet's Jennifer Leggio ...