Women Use Social Media More Than Men
Rebtel, a mobile VoIP company, commissioned a study from research firm Harris Interactive on the social networking habits of men and women. The researchers, who looked at the communication habits of 2,361 adults aged 18 and over, found that women are significantly more likely to use online social networks, like Facebook or twitter, to communicate with friends, family, and co-workers. A whopping 68 percent of womenuse social media to stay in [ Read More ]
Facebook spying on User Activity Even After Logged Out
An Australian technologist has claimed that Facebook can track the web pages you visit, even when you are logged out of the social networking giant. According to Wollongong-based Nik Cubrilovic, when the user is logged out of Facebook, rather than deleting its tracking cookies, the site merely modifies them, maintaining account information and other unique tokens that can be used to identify its users. This [ Read More ]
Facebook to start charging? its a Fake News
Will Facebook start charging due to the new profile changes? No. But don’t let the truth get in the way of a good old-fashioned chain letter, spreading like billy-o across the social network. IT IS OFFICIAL. IT WAS EVEN ON THE NEWS. FACEBOOK WILL START CHARGING DUE TO THE NEW PROFILE CHANGES. IF YOU COPY THIS ON YOUR WALL YOUR ICON WILL TURN BLUE AND FACEBOOK [ Read More ]
How To Use The New Facebook To See Who Unfriends You
For many, being “unfriended” is a fate worse than death. But it’s not something you’d know about right away. In previous versions of Facebook, there was no easy way to see which of your “friends” had decided to sever your relationship on the social network. Sure, you could always go to their profile to check, but that required the effort of remembering who they were. [ Read More ]
Facebook’s New Profile ‘Timeline’ Debuts
Facebook is dramatically redesigning its users’ profile pages to create what CEO Mark Zuckerberg says is a “new way to express who you are.” Zuckerberg introduced the Facebook “timeline” Thursday in San Francisco at the company’s f8 conference for some 2,000 entrepreneurs, developers and journalists. The event is also being broadcast to more than 100,000 online viewers. The timeline is reminiscent of an online scrapbook, [ Read More ]
8 Tech Startups That Could Save The World
Could a Facebook competition encourage users to cut their utility usage? Can a mobile communication network help rural farmers share crop tips? Bringing together activists, world leaders and tech influencers, the second annual Social Good Summit seeks to answer these questions and more. The summit, which kicked off on Monday in New York, aims to find new ways to use new media and technology to [ Read More ]
Pornographic movies posted on Facebook walls? No Its a Facebook Hoax
A hoax is spreading like wildfire on Facebook, claiming that hackers are posting pornographic movies on users’ walls which are invisible to the owners of the wall but are visible to friends and family. You can imagine how that would be pretty embarrassing if it were true. Fortunately, it’s nonsense. Here’s what a typical message looks like, spread by a Facebook user who thinks they are warning [ Read More ]