Have you been paying attention lately to the little things Facebook is doing on your behalf? Have you noticed the helpful suggestions on the right side of the page, reminding you that you haven’t talked to so-and-so in ages and you really should send them a message? Have you noticed the plaintive little messages that [...]
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Follower Monitor bot on Twitter: If you unfollow, they WILL know
I used Tweepular to rid myself of a bunch of accounts that weren’t returning my follow on Twitter. I shook them off like the fleas they are! The service works great.
Then I happened to check @netkritter, and discovered that a Twitter account called Follower Monitor was notifying many of them that @netkritter had dropped them.
So I looked it [...]
Quote from NYT: ‘It’s not your Facebook profile. It’s Facebook’s profile about you’
The New York Times has an article that expresses much of the sentiment I’ve been forming about Facebook over the last several months. It says there is a small but growing group of people who are leaving the site after putting some thought into its implications. To summarize this sentiment in one sentence: commercializing the [...]
Latest Facebook lawsuit alleges site exists only to snoop on you and sell the information
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 [...]
Facebook quizzes: Fun, but not so innocent
If you’ve spent any significant amount of time on Facebook, you’ve most likely been inundated with posts from friends announcing the fascinating result of a survey they’ve just completed, along with an invitation to participate in the same survey and announce what you found out to the world.
This can be a lot of fun. The [...]