Social sites
What if Microsoft had developed Twitter?
A cartoon from Geek & Poke speculates on what it would be like if Microsoft had invented Twitter:
Via the Windows Club.
About Facebook privacy
I don’t use Facebook, but friends and members of my family do. As a result, I am concerned about the privacy issues regarding the posting of personal information on this social network. Facebook has recently published some practices governing the management of privacy settings. I have already made one post on how the settings [...]
Facebook privacy
Facebook has some new privacy settings. Security Garden says watch out for pre-selected settings and gives some information on how to guard your privacy.
Added later: Here’s some more discussion of problems with Facebook’s default privacy settings. ChannelWeb reports:
Thanks to updated privacy settings, Facebook users now have to fear everyone — literally.
Starting Wednesday, Facebook users who [...]
More Facebook scams
Some new Facebook scams are circulating. gHacks reports:
According to several reports on websites like Computerworld a new phishing scam is currently in the wild that is trying to get the Facebook login data of Facebook users. Pandalabs, who uncovered the phishing scam, did not release lots of details about the attack other than it mimicked [...]
Social networking changing the language
I guess it’s a sign of the times. Terms from social networking are quickly changing status from being specialized slang to becoming recognized in general language reference works. The New Oxford American Dictionary has chosen “unfriend” as 2009 Word of the Year.
It may be descriptive but I still think it’s a clumsy term.
Is the Internet killing story telling?
Writing at the the Times (UK), Ben Macintyre bemoans the effect of the Internet’s communication methods on our attention span and our ability to concentrate. He says that the constant flow of small snippets of information is changing our capacity to stick with anything for long and that narratives are disappearing in an online blizzard [...]
Another Facebook phish
The popularity of Facebook means it’s an inviting target for the cybercrooks. Another phishing attack is going around. TrendMicro describes the exploit:
Trend Micro security experts received email messages that supposedly came from Facebook. It asks recipients to update their login credentials for security purposes. It then instructs them to click the URL provided in the [...]
An appliance just for tweets
Are you a devoted tweeter? Then there’s an appliance just for you. Its sole function is tweeting. It’s called TwitterPeek and CNET describes it:
A new gadget designed specifically for people who want to tweet on the go was launched Tuesday by gadget maker Peek.
The device, dubbed TwitterPeek, does one thing and one thing only: [...]
About Facebook and other social sites
I am not personally involved with social sites but a lot of people are. Recently, I have run across a number of articles and posts about Facebook and other social sites and they seemed worth passing on:
An Application to Help Scrub Those Regrettable Photos From FacebookAn article in the New York Times about a Facebook [...]
Social searching from Google
Google has unveiled another form of search. It’s social searching.
More easily find relevant blogs, reviews and other public content from your social circle.
Sign in to Google and do a search. If there’s relevant web content written by people in your social circle, it will automatically show up at the bottom of your search [...]
Adjust your mindset for social networks
Most of us are pretty decent folk; we don’t go around trying to be malicious or looking for ways to cheat our neighbors. In our day-to-day life we encounter a fairly limited number of people and we tend to assume they are straightforward until proven otherwise. Human society as we know it would be unworkable [...]
