Facebook opens profiles to public
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Social networking site offers profiles to search engines and gives users chance to opt out.
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Social-networking site will launch premium services next year. Among possibilities: helping recruiters do "back door" reference checks. Photo: Staffing executive uses LinkedIn.
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Never mind your profile. Social networking sites are tracking what you do and buy, and the you they see may not be the you you really want everyone else to see. From Wired magazine.
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New site doses social networking with literate lists. Plus: Is
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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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A small step for the budding social network's quest to be the anti-Facebook: Plaxo has opened up a portion of its source code dedicated to helping users manage their various social-networking identities.
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"Mash" lets people create profiles for their friends and modify their profile.
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A security researcher discovers that private Facebook profiles can reveal startlingly personal information.
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An impending update from Facebook will make it possible for you to make your profile look a whole lot neater by hiding excess applications.
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As previously announced, the popular social-networking site joined other sites in opening its platform to outside developers -- and potentially opening it to applications that could reach into enterprises.
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Social networking sites like Facebook have wooed millions of users with their easy format for keeping in touch but left them navigating the pitfalls of interacting online -- is it really private?
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Bebo has developed a system to let applications written for Facebook run on its social network.
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Social network makes it a snap Facebook users who like to control who gets to see your account details, take note: political views, religious back ground and other sensitive details may be wide open to prying eyes even though you've configured your profile so its viewable only to designated friends.â¦
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The operators of the online hangout Facebook wanted to help users save time by highlighting changes their friends make to their personal profile pages. Instead, the new feature has drawn complaints from thousands of its users and even threats of a boycott.
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Facebook.com reveals even more than its online exhibitionists want.
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By JESSE NOYES  Some students and young professionals might be toning down their MySpace and Facebook profiles in fear of employers searching social networking sites for the skinny on potential hires.  But Boston-based Experience Inc.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook.com, a fast-growing U S social network website has sparked a privacy backlash that has quickly become one of the broadest cyber-protests ever with more than 600,000 members signing an online petition by midday yesterday.