My absense

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Facebook To Share Users' Home Addresses, Phone Numbers With External Sites

Facebook will be moving forward with a controversial plan to give third-party developers and external websites the ability to access users' home addresses and cellphone numbers in the face of criticism from privacy experts, users, and even congressmen.
Facebook quietly announced the new policy in a note posted to its Developer Blog in January. It suspended the feature just three days later following user outcry, while promising that it would be "re-enabling this improved feature in the next few weeks."
In response to a letter penned by Representatives Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) expressing concern over the new functionality, Facebook reaffirmed that it will be allowing third parties to request access to users' addresses and phone numbers.

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Behind The Scenes At Facebook's Security Center

PALO ALTO, Calif.--The nerve center for Facebook's security team is a room tucked away on the lower level of the company's main building here. The word scalps is painted in big blue stenciled letters on the back wall, which serves as a kind of scrapbook of legal and other wins for the social-networking company.

Taped to the wall are photos of spammers getting served notices of lawsuits, copies of checks defendants have used to settle suits filed by Facebook, mug shots of child predators who were kicked off the site and face criminal charges, cease and desist letters sent to fraudsters who sold fake Facebook accounts, and a letter from a former spam-happy teenager that starts "I appreciate that you spoke to my mom."

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20029954-245.html#ixzz1DdVIOWPM

Chattanooga, Tennessee: Facebook helps solve a home invasion

ALTON PARK (WRCB) - Investigators say Facebook helped lead to the arrest of a pair of home invaders.
A group kicked in the door at a home on Water Street in the early morning hours of October 29th.
Armed with guns the suspects demanded money, then swiped two big screen TV's and a laptop computer.
Police say the suspects were acquainted with the victim's son.  Investigators used Facebook to identify the suspects and stage a photo line-up.
Neighbors say it hit a little too close to home. .
Rosemary Porter says, "I hate that it happened, but you know non of us are exempt from this, it's happening everywhere."
Police have arrested 18 year old Dedrick Shelton, a juvenile, and they're looking for 18 year old Charles Jackson.  If you know where he is, call Crime Stoppers at 698-3333.

Original Story Can Be Found Here [WRCB]

10 Brutal Social Media Site Ownings..

Here are some examples of watching what you say on Facebook and other social media sites..  Here are 10 examples..  Some of them are quite hilarious! Read the ownings HERE.

Mysterious Symbol Found On Facebook Hoodie

From Techcrunch.com:

 
Earlier this week during an interview at the D8 conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did the unthinkable: after finding the hotseat a little too toasty for his liking, he took off his hoodie.  Interviewer Kara Swisher quickly discovered that the hoodie had a mysterious badge stitched on the inside and joked that Zuckerberg was in a cult. And then the Internet went sort of nuts..
Read More At:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/05/join-the-cult-facebook-hoodie-with-mysterious-insignia-found-on-ebay/

Fired Via Facebook!?

Fired Via Facebook by Jack Ryan
A teenage schoolgirl from Melbourne, Britain was fired via Facebook. Facebook is a social networking site that millions gather to communicate and organize.
According to reports, Chelsea Taylor, 16, worked at the Lacashire Tea Room part-time for the past eight months. The letter was from her manager, Elaine Sutton, and she fired her for losing money during an errand to get some cookies for her colleagues.
Here is the message:
"hiya Chelsea it's Elaine from work. Sorry to send u a message like this but bin tryin to ring u but gettin no joy. I had to tell the owner bout u losin that tenner coz obviously the till was down at the end of day. she wasn't very pleased at all and despite me trying to persuade her otherwise she said I have to let u go. I'm really sorry. If u call in in the week with your uniform I'll sort your wages out. Once again I'm really sorry but it's out of my hands. Elaine xx."




Taylor's family was furious to see such an unprofessional letter written to her daughter via facebook at that. Her mother called it "disgusting", "heartless", "appalling" and "dreadful". She couldn't believe they couldn't even call her daughter to tell her over the phone, let alone in person.
"And to have the message all misspelled with capital letters and apostrophes missing is simply disrespectful and sets no example to other employees" her mother said according to Thaindian.com.
Is firing someone via Facebook the easy way out and unprofessional? Or are we looking at the future of being fired from jobs. (c) tPC
Source: www.postchronicle.com

Facebooks's "Green" Data Center Powered By Coal!

Facebook's "GREEN" data center is powered by coal. It;s 2:15 am, and I am tired so I will send you straight to the source! [http://www.greenercomputing.com/blog/2010/02/18/can-facebooks-data-center-be-green-if-it-runs-coal]

FTA:
But at least some of the power going in to the data center will be from a notoriously non-green energy source: Coal. Not even "clean coal," just coal.