By now you’re probably aware that whatever you do on social networking sites, you should never do anything illegal as big brother is watching you. But what if you’re in another country? Well same rule applies as a certain Colombian youth has realized. Continue Reading…
For the past week you’ve been hearing about Tiger Woods and his little accident at his South Florida home. Unfortunately for many who are concerned with more important news, this has led to the eclipse of more expedient stories and to be truthful, all the major networks are responsible including the online tabloids, TMZ. Continue Reading…
Your Facebook profile probably unites people from all layers of your life: personal life, past life, business life.
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In what has basically become a bizarre, corporate-sized version of, “He said, he said”, Erick Schonfeld of techcrunch.com has opened a big yucky can of worms. His February 20, 2009, report that CBS subsidiary Last.fm divulged privatized, detailed user preference information has been incendiary, to say the least. The commentary on his post, “Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data to the RIAA?” (Recording Industry Association of America) will have anyone who reads it waiting for Big Brother to show up at the door at any minute. According to the comments on the post, several people were planning to, or did, cancel their memberships. Continue Reading…
There is a growing trend that has social-networking users feeling more than a little paranoid these days. Over the last year, one minor incident after another has drawn attention to and educated us on the perils of personal indiscretion on sites such as Facebook and MySpace, and services like SMS and Twitter. Internet-witch-hunts take place to weed out suspected pedophiles and racists, but exactly who is doing the suspecting, or on what evidence, is entirely unclear. Finally, now that it’s all set in and well ingrained in pop-culture, we get to bear the fruits of our complacency; from just a little off-putting through worrying and straight to flat-out invasive, three major changes are taking place in the world of social-networking right now.
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