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Facebook Newbie: George W. Bush

Well, sort of

(Newser) - Facebook sure has changed since its inception as a college-only online hangout—first your parents joined, and now even George W. Bush has a page up . The profile is hardly personal—Laura Bush isn't even mentioned under "relationship status," Politico notes—and it's full of links to pre-order...

Disney Is First to Sell Movie Tickets on Facebook

New app encourages your friends to come along

(Newser) - Disney has quietly taken the next step in linking social networking and commerce: a new Facebook app allows users to buy tickets to Toy Story 3 without leaving the website. Disney's application isn't just the first such service embedded directly into Facebook—it also capitalizes on Facebook's social nature by...

'Quit Facebook Day' Looks Like a Flop

The official site has a measly 27,191 users committed

(Newser) - Today is "Quit Facebook Day," and it you haven't heard of it—or have no plans to walk away from your 437 friends—you're not alone. PC Magazine reports that the effort to get the masses to abandon the social networking site looks like a bust. A recent...

Pakistan Lifts Facebook Ban
 Pakistan Lifts Facebook Ban 
May 31, 2010 8:48 AM CDT

Pakistan Lifts Facebook Ban

But any 'blasphemous' material is still off limits

(Newser) - A Pakistani court today lifted the country's Facebook ban—or at least part of it. The site, which was blocked two weeks ago in response to an "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" contest, was made accessible after the court was assured by the government that "blasphemous" material would...

Facebook Friends: How Many Is Too Many?

Even the social network says to can it at 5K

(Newser) - Sure, you get by with a little help from your friends, but in the überfriendly world of Facebook, how many is too many? One professor sets the number of meaningful relationships one can handle at 150, and even Facebook itself will cut you off at the you-can't-possibly-know-all-these-people number of...

Beware Video Phishing Attack on Facebook

If the video is "most hilarious ever," don't click on it

(Newser) - Facebook users, watch out for yet another weekend phishing attack. This one involves a video titled something along the lines of "Most Hilarious Video Ever" posted on Facebook walls. Click on it and it directs you to a fake Facebook login page, where it tries to steal passwords (possibly...

Zuckerberg: I Don't Care About Money

Revenue 'factors in, like, not at all'

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg went on a revealing rant the other day when asked how Facebook's new privacy settings would affect its business model. “We didn't talk about revenue at all,” he replied, and implied that he and his cohorts never thought about it. He said they genuinely believe Facebook...

Mom Who Hijacked Son's Facebook Page Convicted

Denise New can't have contact with her son

(Newser) - Let this be a warning to meddling (and cruel) moms: A woman who hijacked her son's Facebook account and posted obscenities, among other things, was convicted yesterday of misdemeanor harassment and ordered not to have contact with the teen. Denise New must pay a $435 fine and complete anger-management and...

Facebook Privacy Changes a Good First Step

New settings seem relatively easy to control

(Newser) - Facebook's unveiling of changes to give users more control over privacy (details from Mark Zuckerberg here ) is getting a decent reception on the tech blogs. Here's a sample:
  • Kevin Bankston, Electronic Frontier Foundation : They reverse "some of the worst of Facebook's privacy missteps," but "we still
...

FarmVille, Mafia Wars Coming to Yahoo

Virtual worlds get a huge new userbase

(Newser) - Fans of FarmVille and Mafia Wars will soon have a huge new virtual world to conquer. Zynga, creator of the Facebook sensations, has struck a deal to make the games available on Yahoo's homepage and games section, reports Mashable . That will give Zynga a new potential userbase of about 600...

Hey, Facebookers: There's No Free Lunch
 Hey, Facebookers: 
 There's No Free Lunch 
OPINION
May 26, 2010 8:43 AM CDT

Hey, Facebookers: There's No Free Lunch

Pssst: Company's in it for the money

(Newser) - Facebook's a for-profit company, not a public service, so Patt Morrison at the Los Angeles Times can't understand why so many users are angry and hurt about the site trying to make money from harvested private information. "Did anyone really think Facebook was in this for the cozy 'Kumbayah'...

Zuckerberg: OK, OK, We're Fixing It
Zuckerberg:
OK, OK, We're Fixing It
May 24, 2010 10:33 AM CDT

Zuckerberg: OK, OK, We're Fixing It

Facebook to simplify privacy settings, founder promises

(Newser) - Facebook has heard your cries, and plans to clean up its complex privacy settings , founder Mark Zuckerberg declares in a mea culpa in today's Washington Post . “Sometimes, we move too fast,” he admits. “Our intention was to give you lots of granular controls; but that may not...

Upstarts Milk Facebook Privacy Rage
Upstarts Milk Facebook Privacy Rage
May 24, 2010 9:20 AM CDT

Upstarts Milk Facebook Privacy Rage

It's a great time to run a tiny social networking startup

(Newser) - Facebook may stride like a Goliath over the social networking marketplace, but there's a bunch of Davids readying their slingshots, hoping that the behemoth's latest privacy controversy has left users ready to jump ship. “A year ago, nobody was interested in my project,” the developer of Appleseed, an...

Waitress Fired for Facebook Rant About Rotten Tip
Waitress Fired for Facebook Rant About Rotten Tip
in case you missed it
May 22, 2010 12:12 PM CDT

Waitress Fired for Facebook Rant About Rotten Tip

Cheap customers spark message about NC restaurant

(Newser) - A North Carolina waitress learned about the dangers of social networking the hard way when she lost her job after griping on Facebook about penny-pinching customers. Ashley Johnson served a couple at Brixx Pizza in Charlotte who had a 3-hour lunch—forcing her to work an hour after the end...

What We've Lost Along With Privacy
 What We've Lost 
 Along With Privacy 
peggy noonan
May 21, 2010 4:48 AM CDT

What We've Lost Along With Privacy

Exposure isn't making us better—it's making us phonier

(Newser) - There was no defining event—like the fall of the Berlin Wall, with sledge hammers and cement dust—but privacy is gone just as certainly, Peggy Noonan writes, and the glare of exposure hasn't made us better. People are forced to reveal everything about themselves—or have it done for...

Paris Cops Steel for Facebook Booze Binge

'Giant cocktail party' to gather at Eiffel Tower

(Newser) - Paris cops are girding for thousands of drunken revelers expected at the foot of the Eiffel tower this weekend, even though they warned it's illegal. The Paris gathering, organized via Facebook, will be the latest in a series of 58 mass drunkathons or "apéros géants" that are...

Facebook Handing Advertisers Names, Hometowns

Firms can trace users' identities, jobs, sex preferences

(Newser) - Despite promises to the contrary, Facebook and MySpace are supplying information to advertisers that can be used to find an individual's name, age, hometown and occupation, reports the Wall Street Journal . Typically on the Web, advertisers receive nothing more than an unintelligible string of letters and numbers "identifying" an...

Now Pakistan's Blocking YouTube

Crackdown adds site to growing list

(Newser) - Yesterday, Facebook ; today, YouTube: Pakistan has blocked access to the video-sharing site—along with 450 other links, including some Wikipedia pages—because of its “growing sacrilegious content.” The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority didn't refer to specific offensive material, but said it acted after the site failed to take down...

Pakistan Blocks Facebook Over Mohammed Page

Angry rallies protest 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day'

(Newser) - Pakistan ordered Internet service providers to block Facebook today after a court ruling banning a page inviting users to post images of Muhammad. The Facebook page at the center of the dispute—"Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!"—prompts users to post images of the prophet tomorrow to protest...

Facebook Accused of Censoring Criticism

Account disabled after dissing Zuckerberg

(Newser) - Facebook users are complaining that they're being punished on the site for criticizing the social network and founder Mark Zuckerberg. User Kurt von Lichtenstein says his account was disabled after he posted a critical comment—quoted in the box to the left—under a Zuckerberg blog post. He says he...

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