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Facebook profile 'kills job prospects'
Submitted by kalpa on Sun, 01/31/2010 - 07:33
Your profile on Facebook may become a cause of worry when looking for a job, as employers are increasingly checking on networking sitesto know more about the people they intend to recruit, a new study claims.
The survey has found that one in 10 were refused job for boasting about drinking and drugs online.
Bill Gates Rejoins Facebook, Gives Twitter A Try T...
Submitted by kalpa on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 07:08
Last summer, Microsoft founder Bill Gates made the somewhat surprising announcement that he was quitting Facebook after being inundated with friend requests, explaining “It was just way too much trouble so I gave it up”. Today, it looks like he’s decided to give it another go. A few hours ago, Gates launched both a new Facebook Page and a Twitter account.
Yahoo! plans Facebook and Twitter integration by 2...
Submitted by kalpa on Sat, 01/16/2010 - 06:55
Trying to make Yahoo! Mail more interactive, give users a social experience and stay with the people they care about most, Yahoo plans to integrate with Facebook and Twitterby 2010 end.
Bryan Lamkin, Senior Vice President, Consumer Products at Yahoo said, "With the integration of Yahoo and Facebbok, we can enable users to share meaningful content with their friends." Yahoo!'s Facebook Connect integration will give consumers richer experiences on Yahoo!, including in Yahoo! Mail and on properties like Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports, and Yahoo! Finance.
'Social Networks Under Increased Threat in 20...
Submitted by kalpa on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 08:46
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McAfee Labs, in its latest report called "2010 Threat Predictions", said it foresees an increase in threats related to social networking sites, banking security, and botnets in 2010.
Facebook blocks social network 'suicide'...
Submitted by krutika on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 12:51
Facebook has said that it is blocking a website called "Web 2.0 Suicide Machine" that helps users delete their social network profiles.The number one social network also said it had sent a "cease-and-desist" letter to another website, Seppukoo.com, which also helps you kill off your virtual identity. The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine site, which features a hangman's noose on its homepage, deletes profiles, friends and other information on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn for users who provide their account information.
Wherever you click, someone’s watching
Submitted by aparna on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 13:03
A few weeks back, Mark Zuckerberg , Facebook’s founder, made a few changes to the privacy settings in his profile on the social networking site.What he did was fairly simple . Facebook essentially allows its users to chose their level of privacy, by deciding whether they want to restrict access to their ‘friends’ , ‘friends of friends’ or ‘everyone’. Zuckerberg chose the option ‘everyone’, allowing hundreds of people access to his personal information, which was earlier restricted only to his friends.
Weirdest stories of 2009 on Facebook and Twitter
Submitted by SujataB on Sat, 01/02/2010 - 11:07
From the German town that unwittingly advertised pornography on its website to the American who interrupted his wedding to update his Facebook and Twitter accounts, the world was full of weird stories in 2009."Standing at the alter with @TracyPage where just a second ago she became my wife! Gotta go, time to kiss the bride" is how Dana Hanna kept the world posted between "I do" and that kiss.
Facebook, Twitter top list of bizarre stories this...
Submitted by abhilasha on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 17:52
From the German town that unwittingly advertised pornography on its website to the American who interrupted his wedding to update his Facebook and Twitter accounts, the world was full of weird stories in 2009.“Standing at the alter with @TracyPage where just a second ago she became my wife! Gotta go, time to kiss the bride” is how Dana Hanna kept the world posted between “I do” and that kiss.
Social Networking Sites a Drag on Productivity
Submitted by abhilasha on Mon, 12/28/2009 - 11:15
Corporate employees on an average spend 60 minutes on social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook in office hours, leading to loss of productivity, a survey said."Close to 12.5% of productivity of human resource in corporate sector is misappropriated each day since a vast majority of them while away their time accessing social networking sites during office hours," industry body Assocham said in a survey.
How to hide your friends on Facebook
Submitted by amol on Mon, 12/28/2009 - 11:07
When Facebook came up with new privacy settings, it took away the ability to hide some information that was not to be made public,like the Friends List.The inability to hide the Friends List caused a bit of hue and cry from a number of sectors, including business people who did not want to expose their professional networks to the public and their competitors.
