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Feb
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Mark Zuckerberg Stalked by Indian Origin Man

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Facebook‘s Zuckerberg obtains restraining order against the stalker

In a twist of irony, hunter has become hunted. Mark Zuckerberg is a man frequently vilified for his scant regard for his users’ privacy, but that never stopped anyone from quitting, because Facebook apparently is like crack cocaine for the masses. Zuckerberg is finally at the receiving end of the monstrosity he created. A 31 year old gent of the Indian origin named Pradeep Manukonda has taken fancy to the billionaire and is currently stalking him relentlessly.

U.S. resident Manukonda flooded Mark Zuckerberg with online messages and emails declaring his fondness for the Facebook whiz. The harassment didn’t stop in the online domain; Manukonda also sent a handwritten letter, which read, “Thank you for your valuable time and attention towards my problem. I am indeed very grateful to you. If I get a chance to work with you in the near future it would be my honour. I know I am working with a man of values. Thank you for being a source of inspiration to all of us.”

That may sound vague but normal, but Manukonda went psycho on Zuckerberg in one of his numerous Facebook messages to him that read, “I owe my entire life at your service. Please help me, then I am ready to die for you. Please understand my pain.” It got worse with the stalker paying Zuckerberg a visit at the Facebook office in Palo Alto, California; reportedly to ask for money for his family. The last straw was when security spotted Manudoka at Zuckerberg’s residence in Palo Alto on January 24.

Zuckerberg has obtained a restraining order preventing Pradeep Manukonda from coming within 300 yards of him, his sister Randi, and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan. Apparently, Gawker‘s feature on the Facebook founder’s house, which was chock full with photographs, may have proved useful for the stalker to pay him a visit. The legal papers for the restraining orders claimed that the stalker tried to ‘follow, surveil and contact Zuckerberg using language threatening his personal safety’, according to gossip website TMZ. Mark may be safe at the moment, but Pradeep’s persistence may mean that Zuckerberg may not be able to ‘unfriend’ him this easily.

Image courtesy: TMZ

Feb
7

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‘Dating’ Site Nicks 250,000 Facebook Profiles

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Were you one of them?

Those who have watched The Social Network will remember how Mark Zuckerberg goes about stealing photographs from random academic websites and proceeds to use all that for his own website, which was indeed based on a real life system dubbed FaceMash that Zuckerberg had pulled for real. Well, in a cruel twist of irony, a dating website named Lovely Faces has pulled the same trick on Facebook. The folks behind the website are pretty unabashed about it too.

The plot is simple; Lovely Faces rips profiles replete with names, locations and photos right off the publicly accessible Facebook pages. Using face recognition, the website classifies the unsuspecting victims into searchable personality types. For example, one can search for possible (and unwitting) mates in their vicinity based on parameters like “easy going”, “smug” or “sly.”

The website has been created by media artist Paolo Cirio and media critic Alessandro Ludovic who is also the editor-in-chief of Neural magazine. “Facebook, an endlessly cool place for so many people, becomes at the same time a goldmine for identity theft and dating – unfortunately, without the user’s control. But that’s the very nature of Facebook and social media in general. If we start to play with the concepts of identity theft and dating, we should be able to unveil how fragile a virtual identity given to a proprietary platform can be,” goes their explanation of the invasive prank they pulled on Facebook.

Facebook, however, isn’t taking this lightly. Barry Schnitt, Facebook’s director of policy communications warned, “Scraping people’s information violates our terms. We have taken, and will continue to take, aggressive legal action against organizations that violate these terms. We’re investigating this site and will take appropriate action.” There seems to be legal merit to Facebook’s threat, because scraping info from the website does require legal consent, which we presume Cirio and Ludovic haven’t acquired prior to this stunt.

However this may end; what you should do now is head over to Facebook and tighten up your privacy settings. And of course, never share personal information on social network websites.

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Jan
29

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Facebook Founder Victim Of Hack

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Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook was caught in a twist of all sorts when his innovation turned against him.

Hackers took over the founders page and have posted the following message,: “Let the hacking begin: If Facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way? Why not transform Facebook into a ‘social business’ the way Nobel Price winner Muhammad Yunus described it?”

The comment posted by #hackercup2011, a reference to the competition that Facebook organized, was “Liked’ by over 1,800 members of the social network before the site officials took the page of the site.

Facebook has released an official statement blaming a bug for the breach. “A bug enabled status postings by unauthorized people on a handful of pages, The bug has been fixed,” the statement added.

Dec
10

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Mark Zuckerberg Pledges to be Philanthropist

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Mark Zuckerberg, along with 16 tycoons, agrees to give away fortunes commiting to philanthropy. He has has signed onto the “Giving Pledge,” which claims its signatories to commit publicly to give away the majority of their wealth.

This 26-year-old billionaire, is the founder of social network Facebook Inc. is one of 16 billionaires to pledge. The figure now totals more than 50 donors who become a part of a broader group of rich entrepreneurs committing to philanthropy earlier in their lives.

Existing pledges made by affluent individuals and families including Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison, film director George Lucas and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. While, new names to join the list include AOL co-founder Steve Case, investor Carl Icahn and former junk-bond king Michael Milken.

The Giving Pledge is an effort organized by software mogul Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett to persuade the world’s rich to boost their giving.

Mr. Milken, 64, says of the pledge, “I view this as a call to others who might in their thirties or forties use some of their creativity to get involved in philanthropy earlier in life.“

Nov
16

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Facebook Introduces A Innovative Messaging System

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Facebook’s innovative service seeks to integrate text messages, emails, instant messages and Facebook messages all in one place online.

Facebook’s new service which was dubbed by critics a G-mail killer turns out to be an innovation of sorts. To be known as “modern messaging system” a term, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has given to the new service he has launched, which will combine text messages, emails and instant messages all under one umbrella.

Mark Zukerberg refused to call the new service a e-mail killer, and stressed on the same. According to Zuckerberg “It’s true that people will be able to have a @facebook.com email addresses, but it’s not email.”

To be rolled out to its 500 million users in the coming days, the new service known as Modern Messaging System, will allow all external e-mail, text messaging, instant messages and Facebook’s existing internal messaging service to be deposited into one feed known as a social inbox allowing users to reply in any way they want. Thus simplifying and allowing users to chose their mode of communication whether it is through text, instant messages, online chat or email. User can adjust their privacy settings to combat spam. Users who adjust their privacy settings to accept messages from only their friends only, will have all other emails sent from other sources to be deposited into another inbox.

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Sep
30

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Facebook Founder To Be On Comic Books

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Facebook founder is all set to be featured in a biographical comic book.

As if the movie wasn’t enough, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is all set to feature in a comic book. To be written by Jerome Maida, the 48 page autobiographical comic book will be dubbed as Mark Zuckerberg: Creator of Facebook and will be published by Bluewater Productions.

Jerome Maida said “Think about it, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire on the planet and created something that has already had a profound impact on the world. Yet hardly anyone knows much about him.” she said the comic book wil answer the question on who really is this Mark Zuckerberg?

Mark Zuckberg is getting more publicity than he wants. The movie “The Social Network” doesn’t exactly portray the founding father in a good light. Maida has promised users that he wouldn’t be biased while working on the comic book content and would try to present facts as truly as possible.

“Rightly or wrongly, Mark dealt harshly with some people on his way to where he is today.

“As we see, he left many people feeling betrayed. I try my best to be fair here. No one is totally innocent in this story.” he added

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