Weekly Catch Up: January 2-6
Happy New Year! We're back with another Catch Up. Here's the latest from this week.
Oops: Facebook Busted For Privacy Violations
So maybe they shared your personal information with advertisers (without telling you), gave apps more access to your profile than you thought, and engaged in "deceptive" privacy settings. Facebook has had its low moments. Forgive and forget, right?
Weekly Catch Up: November 14-18
Welcome back to our weekly Catch Up, where we update you on this week's happenings around the web and world on the money side of life™.
This Week: Day of Action, Congress to get an insider trading smackdown, and can a president fix a bad economy?
QOTW: What's it worth?
We've all heard of Facebook; if an over-under were given for the number of people reading this blog post who had a Facebook account, I'd take the over--even if it were pegged at 95%.
What you might not know is that Facebook recently completed fundraising that will help them to the tune of about a billion dollars--they even had the opportunity to take another $500 million more, but declined to do so.
The Dangers Of Online Addictions
When you go to work or you get onto your iPhone while riding the bus, what's the first thing you do? If checking your Facebook is the answer, we might have a problem.
We've heard that restricting Facebook profiles is smart--after all, employers are checking social networking sites these days.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal is to Rolling Stone...
…as you and I are to Facebook--you can't just run your mouth and expect it not to hit the fan.
There are plenty of reasons to keep your social networking image cleaner than fresh linoleum. One of the biggest: your job could be in the balance.
Facebook Stalking Made Easy
If it were a country, it would be the world's 3rd largest, ahead of the United States and only behind China and India. It even tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S. What is it? That's right Facebook.
Given its popularity I can only guess that you, your mom, teacher, possibly grandmother, and 10-year-old niece all have Facebook accounts.
Facebook Vanity
Starting at midnight Eastern time on Saturday (June 13th), Facebookers around the world will be able to personalize their URLs. This means that the URL for your Facebook Pages and profile will no longer be a randomly assigned number. The idea behind this change is that Facebook is trying to make it easier to find people via search engines while boosting its Internet traffic.
