Lessons From the Facebook Riots
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When the social discovery site turns members' most trivial actions into unfolding "News Feeds," users rebel, and the company races to quiet their anger. Both sides learn a hard lesson about the illusory nature of online privacy. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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A team of researchers is using the Facebook habits of students to study how personal tastes, habits and values affect the formation of social relationships.
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Think you know advertising? Think again. The social web is challenging all conventions, from who creates the content to how we define media.
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Regular columnist Bill Thompson takes a look at the future of social networking sites.
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Facebook, a popular Web-based hangout for students, revamped its site last night to let users disable or modify a new feature that had touched off protests from hundreds of thousands of members.
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Some years ago, I got a job doing network support for the District Attorneyâs office in a large city that shall remain nameless. When I arrived, the network was a mess! Malware was rampant, Internet and WAN connections were saturated, and users were constantly complaining about slow computers and network performance. Even so, my attempts to enforce a mindful security policy were met with fierce resistance. The attitude among the legal staff was, âThis is my computer and my network; youâre just a computer janitor.â
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(200 sec.) Will Facebook's aggressive strategy make it look like MySpace?
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Facebook.com, stung last week by the wrath of members who want to sever their relationships, tripped again when it tried to let them do so.
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Comment is free: Indra Adnan: Social networking has turned relationships that were easy to distinguish into one amorphous web.
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Slate writer Reihan Salam plays Miss Manners for the social networking crowd, helping you understand what is and is not proper behavior on Facebook and its cousins.
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Users of the popular site are angry about a new feature and are organizing their protest - on Facebook
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US academic says social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook are divided along class lines.
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These aren't your teenager's social networking sites.
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The Web used to be a place where we went to seek information. But with the rise of social networks, we're barraged with a constant stream of data, requested or not
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Forward to the (distributed) revolution Comment As the Web 2.0 bandwagon continues its rapidly accelerating path downhill towards the inevitable crash we find ourselves at another turning point in the development of the networked world.â¦
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By Abigail Tucker, The Baltimore Sun  Mar. 4--Late on the night before Ash Wednesday, Maura Toomb clicked into her profile on Facebook, her favorite social networking Web site. She took a deep breath and typed:  "I'm giving up Facebook for Lent.
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A word game that has proved hugely popular with Facebook members could soon disappear.