December 11th, 2011
“…Starting Dec. 2, word spread on the Internet, through the city’s high schools, at community meetings and in national media forums about Daniels’ use of the gay slur “queers” on her Facebook page. Within hours, she and Troy were being excoriated coast to coast, first by Internet posters, then by Web columnists and ultimately even talk-show pundits.” Source
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July 1st, 2011
“News hit the other day that Facebook may have lost about six million users in the U.S. in one month, according to Inside Facebook, a site that analyzes the social network for developers and marketers”
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June 19th, 2011
“…Weiner said he had hoped to be able to get back to work after getting embroiled in a scandal stemming from his tweeting of a photo of his crotch nearly three weeks ago and then lying about it, but “unfortunately, the distraction that I have created has made that impossible.”
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May 29th, 2011
“Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is thelatest member of Congress to run into Twitter trouble. A lewd photo was sent from his account on the microblogging site Friday night.
The photo, which was taken from the waist down and shows a man in bulging gray underwear, was first reported early Saturday by BigGovernment.com, the Web site of conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart…”
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May 26th, 2011
“There is an old saying that what is good for the goose is good for the gander.
FB and simlar social medium devices certainly do not disclose their own pertinent profiles, agenda, strategies and access informations. In fact, companies like Kickstarter.com who are taking in millions in pledges over the net are highly suspect in their endeavours.The lack of all sorts of disclosure is appalling and it looks like Bernie Madoff is back in the Tech business these days. As Deep Throat said, “just follow the money”. ..
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May 18th, 2011
“Facebook has more than 500 million users who spend 700 billion minutes a month on the social networking site, according to statistics on Facebook.com. Ironically, the survey found that those with the most friends on Facebook had the most anxiety. It created this need to constantly entertain people with news about oneself…”
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May 13th, 2011
Facebook acknowledged that it hired a prominent public-relations firm to promote a negative story line about Google. It was supposed to be kept quiet that Facebook was the client behind the PR pitch.
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February 20th, 2011
Paying a high price for her some 600 facebook friends, Maria Jesus Galan has been banished from her convent for too much facebook.
While it was her 600 friends that caused this, her group now numbers over 5,000.
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February 16th, 2011
Rapper Lil Wayne is trying to get into the Guinness book of World Records by having the most “likes” in a 24 hour period on facebook….
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“Findings that show rising levels of “active” Facebook usage inside workplaces come as the social network introduces its latest round of “frictionless applications” aimed at getting users to share more content, including the music they listen to and the products they buy.