A new Facebook feature is putting your account’s security in the hands of your most trusted friends. Working as a password recovery tool, Trusted Contacts allows you to set up additional security for situations where you find yourself locked out of your account. It started off as a test feature in 2011, but is now ...
Google hasn’t yet invented a way for a research paper to write itself, but word on the street is they’re working on it. You, however, can’t wait past Monday morning to get yours completed. It’s going to be a long weekend of sitting at a computer desk in a locked room for you. But the ...
Yesterday, Facebook announced that it was taking over your phone. The company unveiled a set of apps called “Facebook Home” for Android smartphones that will transform your device into a social hub of Facebook photos, status updates, and notifications. So no, Home will not run on your iPhone or Windows Phone. Facebook Home will function ...
For those of you who are a little late to the game, you’ve probably noticed that scores of Facebook profile photos were replaced by a simple red equal sign yesterday. Why, might you ask, would so many people choose this sign? What does it mean? Much like other Facebook fads, such as posting the color ...
Nursing student Craig Keefe was only a semester away from completing his fourth year at Minnesota’s Central Lakes College when he was expelled for posts made on his personal Facebook profile. He has since filed a federal lawsuit against several Central Lake administrators and the chief executive of Minnesota’s college system in order to be ...
Everywhere you go, your online profile follows you. From what you post on Facebook to checking in on FourSquare and tweeting on Twitter, everything you do has an impact on yourself as “a brand”, and now that social impact can be rewarding. That’s where Klout comes in. What Is Klout? Klout is an online social media analyzer ...
Your personal data is valuable, and you should have more control over who has access to it. Enter AccountKiller.com — your one-stop shop for disabling, de-activating, and removing yourself from select services that you no longer want to use anymore. This site makes it easy to unsubscribe yourself from Facebook, Skype, Spotify, Groupon, iTunes, Twitter, ...
With two-thirds of America’s internet-enabled adults on Facebook, there’s no shortage of friends to be found. However, it appears the growth of the country’s most popular social network has proven to be daunting for its users, according to a new study. The Pew’s Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project found that 61 percent of ...
Michigan has joined a growing number of privacy-conscious states by passing a bill that “prohibit[s] employers and educational institutions from requiring certain individuals to grant access to, allow observation of, or disclose information that allows access to or observation of personal internet accounts.” To put it simply, employers and schools cannot require you to give up your Facebook, ...
Who actually likes Facebook apps? For me, few things are more bothersome when browsing Facebook than clicking on an article to discover that a social reader will now take the liberty of broadcasting that I just read an article about the president’s dog to everyone I know. Or, even worse, websites or apps that will ...
Every once in a while, it’s a good idea to clean up your Facebook. We, as consumers of such a popular social networking site, tend to stack up the clutter that accumulates over time. There are many reasons why it would be a good idea to clean it up; here are three. For potential employers ...
In an interview at Y Combinator’s Startup School yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Paul Graham his expectations on sharing in the future. “We expect this rate [of sharing] will double every 10 years. So in 10 years from now, people will be sharing about 1,000 times as many things as they do today,” Zuckerberg ...
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