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The Exploitation of Facebook Users

In this hyper digitized world of instant access and mass communication on a global scale, people hook themselves to social media as an integral part of life.  Between Facebook, Twitter, email and cellphones, it’s nearly impossible for me to cut ties with anyone these days.  Posting any information on the web invites any and all people to gain access to my intimate affairs.  From my parents to exes to the people in high school I don’t want to think about to even insurers, the IRS, prospective employers and criminals, sensitive information is out there for anyone to snatch up and finally someone is talking about the inherent dangers involved.

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Dear Facebook Critics (aka the media): Back Off the Hoodie and Look at the Numbers

Should Albert Einstein have been attacked in the media over his hair? Is Adele any less of a singer because she doesn’t look like Katy Perry? Was Steve Jobs unfit for duty because he liked jeans and a turtleneck?

Can Mark Zuckerberg lead the biggest IPO in history from his hoodie?

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How a Reputed Security Division of EMC fell Prey to Attackers

When it comes to cyber attacks and hacking, passwords are in the same league as aged, indolent security guards, employed by companies that prefer a false sense of security over actual protection. Users’ habits of keeping short or simple passwords, or ones based on personal details easily found on their Facebook profiles, have caused credible organizations to lose faith in the concept of “strong password security”.

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Tagged.com: The OTHER Profitable Silicon Valley Social Network

What two social networks founded in 2004 have registered users numbering 9-digits, have been profitable for 3 years, are based in Silicon Valley, and focus on connecting people through status updates and social gaming? If you’re reading this, you probably have an account on one of them. The other one has been flying under the radar (and right under our noses) for years.

Tagged.com has always held a parallel course with Facebook. They’ve simply been on a slightly different road ever since it became apparent they would not be able to beat Mark Zuckerberg’s mammoth social network. Unlike MySpace, Hi5, Friendster, and others that waited too long to pull away from the futile effort of taking on Facebook head-to-head, Tagged saw into its own future and changed paths early enough to carve its own path.

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Facebook’s iPhone App Is Getting Abused. Now Where’s My iPad App?

Facebook’s release 3-weeks ago of the latest version of their iPhone app has been met with something that can only be described as a “less than enthusiastic” response. Despite being hugely popular over the years and claiming nearly 90 million downloads (about half of the total number of devices that are capable of downloading Apple apps), this version was a lemon.

The social networking giant has responded with emergency fixes that they are planning on releasing today, but as of this article the new version is still not available. That’s fine. My only question: will we see a Facebook iPad app before or after we see the iPad 3?

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Get Ready For Earth Day With New Facebook App

With Earth Day just one day away, many people are thinking about different ways that they can show their support for the environment. And a new Facebook app, called A Billion Acts of Green, lets users do just that.

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Scuba Goggles For The Social Media Age

Since we all know we can’t go five minutes without updating our facebooks, tweeting our twitters, or shamefully checking our myspaces, then constantly posting pictures of our where abouts is something that is pretty common practice at this point. Well the final frontier of picture posting has finally been conquered. These goggles will allow you to take bad ass underwater photos and videos and then upload to your computer via USB as soon as you are above water.  This means it will only be mere moments before all of your friends know you maybe saw some fish 100 yards away. If you are not into scuba diving well then you can easily take these bad boys on your next spring break and finally start your amateur voyeur career in the various pools because we all know that is exactly what you thought of when you first saw these. Buy them here now!

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Report: Facebook sales likely to hit $2 billion in 2010

Facebook Inc is likely to generate 2010 revenue of about $2 billion, more than previously expected for the popular social networking site, Bloomberg reported, citing three people familiar with the matter.

Facebook’s 6-year-old service, which ranks the world’s largest Web social network with roughly half a billion users, posted 2009 revenue of around $800 million, Reuters reported earlier this year.

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