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A group of women’s rights activists sent a blistering open letter to Facebook earlier this week asking them to consider their oftentimes conflicting set of standards on what they do and don’t remove from the site. For instance, nude portraits and images of breastfeeding have been deemed pornographic and removed from the site, but graphic …

A Westerville, New Jersey, woman, Darcie Lutz, created a Facebook page to support a mother living in Utica, Ohio, whose four-year-old son had, she said, been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. However, the mother, Emily Creno-King, is now accused of faking her son’s money to solicit money. Lutz met Creno-King in an online …

Parents are willing to do anything to protect their children. In Australia, that can include paying up to $800 a day to private investigators to track down and even confront Facebook users who are bullying their children. According to concerned parents and investigators, police and school officials don’t do enough to stop bullying, so they …

A short while ago we had some users alert us to the fact that their ‘Open’ Facebook Groups were displayed on their Timeline. In case you didn’t know, you can navigate to your own Timeline and click the ‘View As‘ button to see what information displays to the Public. This is a good feature to …

More and more teenagers (and even preteens) are moving away from traditional social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and embracing photo-sharing services like Instagram and SnapChat. However, while pre-teens are not technically allowed to use Instagram (the minimum age is 13), many do easily, and with few questions asked. “Facebook is not doing enough …

Spam posts are something that Facebook page and group administrators have to deal with on a regular basis. Eric Feinberg with EyEonipp.com runs several sports related groups that have been under a constant barrage of spam links over the past couple of weeks or so. Here is an example of one such post: You’ll notice that …

Last week, Facebook and Target Corporation introduced a beta version of Cartwheel, an online function that gives deals and special offers to Facebook users. The program gives users a special barcode that they can either print or bring into the store on their mobile devices to redeem coupons. However, when a Facebook user redeems a …

It’s a common sight on Facebook: people posting images, videos or statuses and asking users to like or comment on them. The posts usually contain some sort of promise, like “if you type ‘MOVE’ into the comments section, watch what happens to the image,” or “if this status gets 100,000 likes, I will run a …

According to Romania-based anti-virus company Bitdefender, all of the top ten scams on Facebook involve celebrities supposedly caught in compromising positions. From the Rihanna-Chris Brown sex tape scam that made the rounds a few months ago to the alleged caught-on-tape encounter between Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber, online scam artists know how to take advantage …

A study done by marketing blog Marketo has found that, despite growing concerns surrounding Facebook privacy and the release of Graph Search, 13 million users have never touched their privacy settings. Graph Search, the upcoming feature that will allow users to search through posts and pictures, has raised privacy concerns among plugged-in web users. However, …

A government task force is preparing legislation that would fine tech companies like Facebook and Google if they did not allow authorities access for wiretapping purposes, according to a recent report in The Washington Post. In an age where online communications are becoming the norm, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is afraid that, by …

The ACLU has obtained government documents that show that the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI believe that they do not need a search warrant to access emails, Facebook messages, Twitter direct messages, and other forms of social media communication. The laws regarding the privacy rights of these kinds of messages are murky at …

Microsoft recently announced that it had found a malicious browser extension making the rounds on Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that, when downloaded, attempted to hijack users’ Facebook profiles. The Trojan works by first seeing if the user is logged in to Facebook. If so, it tries to get a configuration file from the website …

What originally began as Trusted Friends has been redesigned, improved and released again as Trusted Contacts. This is an account recovery feature that gives you way to reclaim your account should you ever forget your password or lose your account to a Facebook hacker. Facebook defines Trusted Contacts as “close friends that you can call …

Socially engineered phishing attacks are some of the most common scams on Facebook. A current scheme is using the following message in an attempt to obtain Facebook user names and passwords: “Youu are in tthis viddeo on facebook, skip to 1.45 omg! ttyp in with-outt spaccess:D www .Tagvidz .com” Any time you receive a message …

Facebook stalking is an unfortunately prevalent online crime. However, Facebook stalking oneself is a pretty unique offense. Cheryl Nelson, a 52-year-old woman from Grand Rapids, Michigan, is charged with creating a fake Facebook profile for her ex-boyfriend and then harassing herself with it to frame her former flame. Police say that from November 2011 to …

Many employers are now seeking access to employees’ Facebook accounts before making a hiring decision. Both privacy advocates and U.S. legislators have fought this invasive new protocol. However, the movement for strengthening job-seekers’ Facebook privacy rights has taken a small step back in New Jersey as Governor Chris Christie announced that a proposed privacy bill …

A new, viral warning has many moms and concerned Facebook users in a panic. An example of one such message is shown below: The uproar is over Facebook Community Pages that automatically aggregate data based users’ likes and interests. Here’s what’s happening, a user clicks on one of these community pages, and then that user …