Topic: Facebook
Facebook is a social networking website based in Palo Alto, California. Founded by Mark Zuckerburg, it was previously a social network limited to university students before allowing anyone over the age of 13. The website currently has 300 million active users worldwide, and has overtaken News Corp-owned MySpace as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, according to a Compete.com study.
Plenty of discussions on Home turn into ‘I hate Facebook’ agreements, one of the only reasons why I think that I may actually add something to the conversation. Home isn’t for non-Facebook users, so it makes little sense to say ‘I hate Facebook, but here’s my review of Home’.
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Facebook has announced its brand new redesign for its “News Feed” – the place you always see when you enter the site. The new incarnation reduces the clutter and has designed each story to be more vibrant and colourful.
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Facebook has confirmed that they too have been a victim of a “sophisticated attack”, citing a vulnerability in Java. This comes after, a few weeks ago, Twitter confirmed that they too were attacked (resulting in over 250,000 names and passwords being stolen) and hinted that the same Java vulnerability was used.
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Sick of the current Facebook interface? Probably not, but have a look at this design concept by Brisbane-based interactive art director Fred Nerby. He has re-imagined Facebook’s design by creating something that focuses on making the social network, what he says, “functional and engaging”.
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Want an easier way to manage your privacy on Facebook? The social network has now introduced a new icon on the header called “Privacy Shortcuts”. Wedged between the settings icon and the Home link, you can now find the most common (and basic) privacy options so you don’t have to go through long and often complicated boxes to control what you share online.
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If you haven’t checked your emails, then you would have missed that Facebook is changing its policies – its “Data Use Policy” and its “Statement of Rights and Responsibilities”. Rather than you just read the entire document, we have compress the changes into this blog post. So, what do these changes mean for you?
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As a Reddit user has discovered, Facebook have begun rolling out the ability to reply to comments, starting a separate thread as seen above. The feature is only, according to Facebook, being tested on 30 pages, however it is expected that this will eventually turn into a wider rollout. Facebook is only testing it for certain locales and according to the Los Angeles Times, a spokesperson from Facebook told them that the feature is being tested on pages for specific individuals. I was able to test the feature on this Facebook Page, via Reddit.
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It’s the end of school term finally. And yet again, two of my close friends are acting like they’re part of an elite clan for hating Facebook. Insert some of the usual clichés about how it’s too crowded, how it’s full of attention seekers, how there are so many people who complain about their first world problems on it. All of the usual garbage.
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For many – like me, being a university student – peopleassume that you want to see some event in the city at some random nightclub with a cheesy name. While I’m flattered, once or twice is enough – thrice or more and you’re basically spamming me. If I don’t show up, sending it to me fifteen times is not making me reconsider. And if you are tired of the event spam, like I am, then I’ve found an easy way to make sure you aren’t bothered by that person again.
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Last week, Facebook decided out of thin air that everyone should use Facebook’s own @facebook.com email address BY DEFAULT unless you changed it beforehand (and of course, didn’t ask you to change it – in true Facebook style). Well it has gone a bit deeper with complaints emerging that entire contacts have been changed without their knowledge and emails not actually going through.
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Previously, if you wanted to edit a comment or fix a mistake, you had to delete the original comment and write it again. That is, apparently, a waste of time for many, so Facebook has added a brand new feature – now you can edit the comment after posting.
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Facebook has launched their first WordPress plugin, allowing bloggers who use WordPress to easily use some of their social plugins on their website such as Facebook Comments and inserting like buttons on every post. But what’s more important is its second feature – the fact that you can now automatically publish a story to a page or profile directly. No additional workaround required!
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Look, we all have so much crap from our Facebook friends – from photos from their drunk party night, to videos of questionable materials. And while we all ponder the way to remove it is to simply not friend them, but you then have to endure the anger, the guilt trip and the attempts to re-add you. But there is an easier way – just hide it.
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Get ready for another big acquisition from Facebook. The company is rumoured to be discussing with Opera Software to buy the firm, and analysts are saying that a deal could potentially be somewhere in the $1 billion to $1.2 billion range.
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On its second day of trading, Facebook’s stock has closed to finish at $34.03, nearly 11 percent down from where it closed and wiped some $19 billion of its market value. Today was its biggest test after its lead underwriter, Morgan Stanley, decided to stop artificially inflating the price – something it is alleged it has done on Friday to make sure it did not fall below $38.
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