Group Boycotts Facebook Opposing New Design
The group which opposes Facebook’s new design has gathered nearly 2.7 million supporters. The group, “1,000,000 against the new Facebook layout,” is organizing a two day boycott of the site. Among Facebook’s goals with the new design were to reduce the clutter of members’ profile pages and restore the social network’s clean and organized layout.
Facebook Tests Safety Icon.
Facebook has begun testing a safety icon to allow users of the social networking site to report sexual predators. The icon was developed by the state of New Jersey. Over the next six months,1.5 million page impressions on Facebook will see the report abuse link. When a user clicks on the icon, there will be links to pages offering safety tips, and a place to provide comments. The Report Abuse icon is also being tested by other social networking sites.
Malware “court jester” attacks Facebook
IT security and control firm Sophos has warned users of Facebook to exercise care, following an attempt by hackers to infect computers by spreading messages containing malicious links on the popular social networking website. The recent attack comes in the form of Wall Messages left on Facebook users’ to view a video, but clicking on the link takes users to a site which urges them to download a file to watch the movie. Sophos says it detects the executable file as the Troj/Dloadr-BPL Trojan horse, which in turn downloads further malicious code (detected as Troj/Agent-HJX), and displays an innocent image of a court jester sticking his tongue out.
Hidden Date of Birth exposed in Facebook
A test run of new design by Facebook left the members’ hidden birth date information exposed. Earlier this month the full dates of birth of many of Facebook’s 80 million active users were visible to others. The flaw appeared to be fixed now. The flaw was first detected by Sophos, a world leader in IT security. Sophos has published a video, demonstrating the security hole:
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Identity Crisis Faced By The Facebook Generation
According to a warning given to the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, this generation who use internet for everything and who have never known a world unless they surf on-line are growing up with a dangerous view of the world and their own identity. They are going through major identity crisis. People who born after 1990 have grown up in a world dominated by online social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. Many of these youngsters use Internet as the main medium to communicate. Their relationships are quickly disposed at the click of a mouse. Because of the online social networking, people find the real world boring and unstimulating. Because of this online mess, youngsters are going through the stages of vulnerable to impulsive to suicide.
Chat room communication reduced sensory experience; person’s expression/body language/ voice/tone aren’t there; and this can shape one’s perceptions of the interaction differently. Online session changes the perception to a dream-like state, and this unnatural blending of mind with the other person leads to entirely different meaning to friendships and relationships.
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MySpace Global Traffic Falls behind Facebook
comScore’s May numbers shows that Facebook’s global traffic grows past MySpace. Facebook, according to ComScore, attracted 123.9 million unique visitors in the month of May, beating MySpace’s 114.6, and 50.6 billion page views compared to MySpace’s 45.4 billion. But in US MySpace remains far ahead of Facebook with 73.7 million unique visitors versus Facebook’s 35.6 million US visitors. Even though MySpace and Facebook are the main players in the social networking market, there are many other social networks with big followings in different regions of the globe that pose local competition. Orkut, owned by Google, has a lock on Brazil and also eats up a big portion of the market in India. Hi5 is big in Latin America. Facebook recently took out a $100 million loan to keep up with its phenomenal growth.
Facebook rejected Google
Google’s Friend Connect is a social network utility which helps site owners to, giving visitors a way to connect with friends from other social networks like Google Talk, hi5, orkut and Plaxo. Facebook was also the part of the network when Friend Connect was launched early in the May. Last week Facebook blocked Google’s Friend Connect service from accessing Facebook members’ data, stating it violates Facebook’s terms of service because it “redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge.
Facebook borrows money
Facebook’s explosive growth needs more cash. Facebook has borrowed $100 million recently from Calif.-based venture loan firm TriplePoint. The loan will help to buy approximately 50,000 more servers. In January this year Facebook elevated its projected revenue from $300 million to $350 million. In 2007 its revenue was $150 million. Facebook has approximately 70 million registered users.
Stanford University Teaches Facebook Psychology
A group of students at Stanford University have turned their attention towards a unique course that blends popular culture with the more time-worn principles of psychology. The Psychology of Facebook is the brainchild of Professor B J Fogg, a pioneering persuasion psychologist. He stresses that, Facebook’s unbridled success lies in getting users to to do the work for them with friends persuading friends to post pictures, comments, or upload applications.
Facebook,National Security Threat:Israel
Israeli security officials are not allowed anymore to publish confidential information on Facebook because it may become available to all the people who surf the Internet. A new list of rules announced by Defense Ministry on Israel aims to prevent soldiers and employees from revealing classified information on social networking sites. The officials say some soldiers have uploaded pictures of themselves with classified equipment, inadvertently revealing sensitive information.
Facebook Chat
Facebook announced that they are rolling out Facebook chat this week. This new feature will be an exciting upgrade to the site. It also appears to be a move to try to keep people engaged on the Facebook site for a longer duration.
Facebook’s Golden age gone?
According to research firm Nielsen Online Facebook experienced its first drop in visitors in January after a 17-month uphill climb, in the United Kingdom. Its study showed unique users were down to 8.5 million from 8.9 million in December. But industry experts say, the Facebook frenzy is still going strong — especially in Canada.
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