Facing up to Facebook fears
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Internet law professor Michael Geist says attempts to block social media sites such as Facebook are misguided.
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Facebook's advertising system provokes questions about how companies share data.
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Facebook kicked off the new year with additional tweaks to its development platform as it continues to&#160;grapple with external programmers&#160;who spur adoption of their applications among Facebook members through deceitful and abusive practices.Facebook has been battling this problem since May, when it opened its social-networking site to third-party developers interested in building applications for it.Chief among the annoyances have been self-promotion features in applications such as bulk unsolicited e-mails and intrusive message displays. Although&#160;Facebook has made several changes&#160;in past months, the problems persist.On Jan. 1, a Facebook official made an official blog posting titled &quot;New Year. New Rules&quot; in which he states that some developers have been sneakily bypassing the amount of e-mail notifications applications are allowed to send.&quot;Specifically, these developers have been sending notification e-mails to users for one application with another application, in order to &#39;pool&#39; the total quota of e-mail notifications together,&quot; wrote Dave Morin, Facebook&#39;s senior platform manager.In addition, other applications have been designed to trick Facebook members into inadvertently installing other applications by placing links into e-mail messages, internal notifications and the Mini-Feed feature in member profiles.&quot;Starting today, we&#39;ll begin blocking links in Mini-Feed, Notifications, and Notification E-mails which lead to the installation of another application in the hopes that developers focus on user experience and engagement being paramount, not deceiving users for the sake of growth,&quot; Morin wrote.&#160;
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Several incidents highlight the dangers life online presents to preserving your privacy.
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With Facebook slowly creeping up on MySpace, is there room for two social networking sites?
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Seeking opportunity in a market clouded by fear.
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Facebook announces that all user profiles will be available to non-users with a new search mechanism dubbed Public Search Listings. That means the once-private profiles will also be indexed by the big search engines, which may alarm some Facebook users. Facebook's search plans are fairly restrictive, but despite the tight security, this is a move away from once restrictive privacy policies.
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The social networking site Facebook is wrestling with the contentious issue of speech codes, and the latest concern centers on a group with a crude title denouncing Islam.
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Facebook.com, the No. 2 U.S.   social network site that is quickly expanding beyond its   college student base, has been met with a sudden privacy   backlash by users after it made design changes this week.
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Facebook users should not worry that personal details will be searchable on the net, says the social network.
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Online hangout Facebook, seeking to avoid a second revolt over privacy, is offering members more controls over their personal profile pages as it relaxes eligibility requirements to join.
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Prosecutors in New York state are investigating whether social networking website Facebook is living up to its word when it comes to protecting young Internet users from sexual predators.
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Blog: Interested developers and entrepreneurs get together to talk about what they want to do with the Facebook Platform.
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about changes at Facebook, his super-popular social-networking site. By Aria Pearson from Wired magazine.
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Facebook, the popular social networking Web site that has mainly focused on college students, is preparing to open its membership to everyone.
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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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No change is good RSA Facebook has defended its privacy protection despite the possibility that this has been circumvented for the first time by an alleged sexual predator.â¦