Five users of Facebook recently filed a lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that the true purpose of the site is to collect information about consumers “in the most innocuous way possible” and sell it to third parties. While it’s doubtful that the suit will gain much traction, the litigants’ analysis of the Facebook business model is [...]
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Makers of role-playing games on Facebook accused of stealing copyrighted artwork
Hmmm. A whole week has passed and there have been no controversies involving Facebook! Excellent.
Wait…
http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2009/08/04/another-facebook-rpg-controversy/
How to keep Facebook from using your profile photo in its ads
Earlier I posted about how Facebook is using our profile photos in its ads in distressing ways. It turns out there is a way to disable this. Unsurprisingly, Facebook does not broadcast this fact. But all you have to do is change a setting.
Just go to Settings in the upper right corner, and choose Privacy Settings. On [...]
This ad on Facebook is a lie
We’ve all seen those I.Q. test banner ads all over the place, saying Britney Spears has an IQ of 115 and challenging you to see how you compare. Or was it 125? Or 150? The number seems to change every time somehow.
My wife asked me the other day if I had ever taken an I.Q. [...]
A victory for Facebook users, but will it last?
Facebook’s reversal of its attempt to assert complete ownership of all content uploaded by its users was an important victory for those users. As I discussed in the inaugural rant of this blog, users of social networking sites are already exploited — they’re unpaid content creators. But for now, users have rolled back Facebook’s claim [...]