I occassionally need to post a link on Facebook back to a Wordpress site. Even though almost every other social site seems to be able to handle this simple task sanely, Facebook demands that you format your page with "Open Graph" tags or it will stubbornly refuse to show any image or if it will s...
No, this isn't a Google+ story. First a little history...
Unless you were in an Ivy league school in early 2004 into 2005 or in high school for the 2006 school year, you probably hadn't even heard of facebook before 2007. Opening to the masses in late 2006 (much to the disappointment of those s...
Hardly surprising, but I thought this article [link dead 2024] (see the archived version) by Stewart Meagher summarized one researcher's findings about Facebook's tracking methods and explained the methodology so well that it was worth posting a link to it.
By now everyone and their Grandmot...
Just a short note to my military friends. Doubtless you'll be hearing about this soon enough anyway, but just in case you do not: Tom Ryan is due to present a talk at the upcoming Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas about the dangers of revealing too much information on social networking sites.
...It took me over an hour but I finally managed to manually remove every last photo, video, like, group, note, friend, list, and event from my facebook account. However, the experience was pretty liberating. I also remembered to change my password before deactivating so I wouldn't accidentally log i...
So this is still a bit of a mystery, but its obvious that somehow someone has managed to get hold of the login account for the RUSH (the band) Facebook page. I first noticed strangeness yesterday, but it reared its head again today so I took a couple snapshots. I'm pretty sure we're dealing with the official Facebook page for the band because it's linked off the official RUSH website, but it's possible of course that the official page has been hacked and they replaced the link with one they control. The defacement thats been done is pretty lame - if I stolen the account I'm sure I'd be able to come up with something a tad funnier like a post about Geddy getting his vocal chords surgically shortened so he could sing all the good tunes again.
OK so what Facebook DIDNT tell you about thir new privacy settings thing is that they have made a deal to sell all the information you have marked as public to the Google and Microsoft Bing search engines. That's right! Unless you're careful, everything you have ever posted on Facebook may soon ge...
