Facebook

Read the latest Facebook news today on Newser.com

Stories 1561 - 1580 | << Prev   Next >>

Why I Won't Buy a Kindle
 Why I Won't Buy a Kindle 
OPINION
Sep 4, 2010 2:50 PM CDT

Why I Won't Buy a Kindle

A twentysomething explains why she hates e-readers

(Newser) - Unless all the hype is wrong, e-readers like the Kindle are the future—and precisely the sort of thing a twentysomething technophile who loves to read must adore, right? Meet 26-year-old Emma Silvers, who explains in Salon why she's actually a little repulsed by the idea and won't give up...

Most Influential of 2010: Zuck
 Most Influential of 2010: Zuck 
vanity fair 100
Sep 4, 2010 10:40 AM CDT

Most Influential of 2010: Zuck

Facebook founder tops Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch

(Newser) - Frighteningly enough, Mark Zuckerberg tops Vanity Fair 's list of this year's most influential people of the Information Age. The top 5 of its 100:
  1. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook: His company is valued at around $25 billion, has more than 500 million members, runs 176 billion banner ads a month, and
...

New Facebook Feature Makes Stalking Even Easier!

Surely Mark Zuckerberg saw this backlash coming

(Newser) - Another day, another Facebook privacy flap: Now the social networking giant is testing a feature that Mashable calls a "stalker button." It's actually a subscription feature, allowing you to subscribe to all the actions of any of your friends—meaning you will receive notifications any time that person...

Judge Removes Juror Over Facebook Post

She's fined $250, must write essay

(Newser) - A young juror who leaked a guilty verdict on Facebook will have to pay a $250 fine and write an essay on the constitutional right to a fair trial. The juror, 20-year-old Hadley Jons, had written in a Facebook status update that it was "gonna be fun to tell...

Zuckerberg Fights to Keep Private Life Out of Lawsuit
Zuckerberg Fights to Keep Private Life Out of Lawsuit
oh, the irony dept.
Sep 2, 2010 8:20 AM CDT

Zuckerberg Fights to Keep Private Life Out of Lawsuit

Wants to keep lid on 'unnecessary details'

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg would like a little privacy, please. The head honcho of Facebook, who is currently fighting Paul Ceglia's claim to own 84% of the site, says the lawsuit is trying to uncover unnecessary, private details about his life in order to harass him. The claim seems to stem from...

On Sale at Target: Facebook
 On Sale at Target: Facebook 
what it all means
Sep 1, 2010 10:57 AM CDT

On Sale at Target: Facebook

Credit gift cards make it easier to blow cash on FarmVille!

(Newser) - For those of us who can hardly handle the disappointment of having Facebook involved in only 93% of our lives: You can now shop for it! At Target! Facebook credit gift cards are hitting the aisle Sunday, in denominations of $15, $25, and $50 that can be spent on goods...

How to Behave on Facebook
 How to Behave on Facebook 
stop posting yearbook pix
Aug 29, 2010 8:58 AM CDT

How to Behave on Facebook

No one wants to read about your daily workouts

(Newser) - Facebook is nice and all, but it would be better if people had to follow some basic rules of etiquette. Wendy Atterberry offers up the 10 she’d like to see, on The Frisky :
  1. Stop tagging people: And while you’re at it, don’t even post those “embarrassing
...

Microsoft Co-Founder Sues Tech Industry

Paul Allen targets Apple, Google, Yahoo

(Newser) - Paul Allen’s licensing company is suing a who’s who of the biggest forces in tech—including Apple, Google, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Yahoo, and Aol—over a handful of patents filed by a now-defunct startup he funded during the Internet bubble. The four patents in question seem to encompass...

Facebook Trying to Trademark 'Face'

Zuckerberg lays claim to 'face,' 'book,' 'like'

(Newser) - Facebook—which is already going after a site with "book" in its name —is trying to protect the first half of its name as well. The social networking giant is trying to register the word "Face" as a trademark, TechCrunch reports. The application is being opposed by...

Facebook Bans Pot Leaf in Ads
 Facebook Bans Pot Leaf in Ads 
Aug 25, 2010 1:43 PM CDT

Facebook Bans Pot Leaf in Ads

Dubs image 'illegal content'

(Newser) - You might think Facebook, a site that got its start catering to college kids, would be marijuana-friendly—but you’d be wrong. The social networking giant has rejected an advertisement from the “Just Say Now” legalization campaign, explaining that it contained the image of a marijuana leaf, and thus...

Facebook Sues Small Teacher Community Site

Claims it owns the '-book' suffix

(Newser) - Facebook has filed a lawsuit against Teachbook, a little-known community website for teachers. The lawsuit alleges that Teachbook is “misappropriating the distinctive book portion of Facebook’s trademark … in a blatant attempt to become a Facebook for teachers.” Facebook is suing for unspecified damages, and wants the...

3 Teens on Facebook Hit List Killed

People named in post warned to flee Colombian town or die

(Newser) - Panic is spreading in the southwestern Colombian town of Puerto Asis after the killings of three teenagers in 10 days. All three were on a 69-name "hit list" posted on Facebook a week ago, CNN reports. The post, which police initially thought was a joke, warned that the people...

Colbert Rips Facebook/Google for Selling Us Out

'They're mining our privacy for profits'

(Newser) - Stephen Colbert managed to get serious yesterday as he blasted the "invasive" personal data mining undertaken by Google and Facebook to "sell our private lives to the highest bidder." The harsh dig came at the end of a long hilarious riff about how Facebook users now must...

Germany Bans Bosses From Checking Your Facebook

Some 45% of employers vet applicants on social-networking sites

(Newser) - You look great in your interview duds and make a smashing first impression, so what could torpedo your chances of getting the job? Those Facebook photos of you doing a kegstand. Move to Germany, reports der Spiegel, where Berlin has recently banned bosses from checking would-be employees' social-networking profiles. The...

Unblockable Zuckerberg Story Is BS, Says Facebook

Happens to users blocked 'large number of times'

(Newser) - This morning started out as Everybody Pile on Zuck Day, with the media (including your favorite site, Newser) reporting that Mark Zuckerberg is the only Facebook user who absolutely, positively cannot be blocked . Not so, according to a "Facebook spokesperson" (from the appropriately named " OutCast PR ")....

You Can't Block Zuckerberg
 You Can't Block Zuckerberg 
Aug 23, 2010 6:32 AM CDT

You Can't Block Zuckerberg

Why not? It's a mystery

(Newser) - If you’re creeped out by Mark Zuckerberg and his apparently insatiable desire to know exactly where you are and what you’re doing , you could always just block him on Facebook, right? Wrong. As BlockZuck.com points out, the Zuck appears to be the only Facebook user who can’...

10 Weird Reasons to Get Fired
 10 Weird Reasons to Get Fired 
Aug 22, 2010 6:50 AM CDT

10 Weird Reasons to Get Fired

Capital letters, cancer haircuts, and other odd offenses

(Newser) - There is no nice way to lose your job, especially during a recession. But, not every "you're fired" is created equal. Here, courtesy of Oddee , are some of the worst—and weirdest—job-loss stories out there:
  • Waitress canned for cancer cut: After losing her father to cancer, a Canadian
...

Facebook Pushed for Big Changes to Movie

Executives are ignoring it publicly, fighting it privately

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg and crew are taking a ho-hum attitude in public about the upcoming Facebook movie the Social Network, save for a few comments here and there about how it distorts reality. Things are much more tense in private, reports the New York Times , which describes behind-the-scenes contacts between Facebook...

Facebook's Places Kills the Little White Lie
Facebook's Places Kills
the Little White Lie
opinion
Aug 20, 2010 5:07 PM CDT

Facebook's Places Kills the Little White Lie

Careful, location check-ins will expose your fibs

(Newser) - Facebook's new Places feature (details here ) is "sure to affect your relationships in amazing and awful ways," writes Farhad Manjoo for Slate . He focuses on one of the potentially awful ways, the one in which Facebook "becomes the honesty police, a social truth serum that will...

How to Disable Facebook's Places

Location-based feature is opt-in—here's how to opt out

(Newser) - Facebook has unveiled its long-awaited Places feature , as usual assuming that all users will be thrilled to "take part in all of their privacy-eroding new features," writes Adam Dachis at Lifehacker . Luckily, "it's pretty easy to opt out of this one," he says, assuming you're not...

Stories 1561 - 1580 | << Prev   Next >>
Most Read on Newser