Granted, Facebook’s recent redesign came with a couple of flaws, and lots of people were upset about the changes, but resorting to street protests to try and turn them around?
The French have taken to the streets! Over the new Facebook design, that is. God bless their revolutionary hearts.
Women older than 55 are the fastest-growing group on Facebook, with 1.5 million currently on the site – a 550 percent increase in the past 6 months.
Do you know what that means? Your mom just joined Facebook. It’s all in the Facebook family now.
Following a much-discussed change in Facebook’s terms of service, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg took to the company blog Monday in an effort to dispel concerns about who owns what when it comes to user data: “Our philosophy is that people own their information and control who they share it with. When a person shares information on Facebook, they first need to grant Facebook a license to use that information so that we can show it to the other people they’ve asked us to share it with. Without this license, we couldn’t help people share that information.”
This month, when Facebook updated its terms, it deleted a provision that said users could remove their content at any time, at which time the license would expire. Further, it added new language that said Facebook would retain users’ content and licenses after an account was terminated. Continue Reading »
In the battle for online friends, Facebook is now the world leader and is turning 5.
Five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg launched a site out of his Harvard dorm called thefacebook.com. It was an immediate hit, despite competition from established social networks, because it offered a safe place for students to share things like party photos with just their real friends. So it’s hardly a birthday surprise that photo uploads — and a range of other methods for sharing personal information on the site — continue to gain popularity today, as can be seen from some new statistics just released by the company.
“Building and moving quickly for five years hasn’t been easy, and we aren’t finished.
“As we celebrate Facebook’s 5th birthday, we continue to work hard to evolve Facebook and make it as simple as possible to communicate with and understand the people and entities that matter to you,” wrote Mr Zuckerberg. Continue Reading »
In just a few short weeks, Matt Bacak has crossed the Facebook finish line with 5,000 Friends. By putting his own Internet marketing strategies into action, “The Powerful Promoter” has managed to break the social media networking barrier. Unfortunately for those Internet marketers who want to get connected to Bacak through Facebook, they’re too late.
At first, I took on the quest for 5,000 Facebook Friends as a fun challenge. The more I got into it, however, the more I realized that I could leverage the game to my advantage
Suwanee, GA (PRWEB) October 13, 2008 — “The Powerful Promoter,” Matt Bacak, is pleased to announce that he has made the Facebook record books. In record-setting pace, he has garnered 5,000 Friends on the top social media networking site. Because Facebook sets this figure as the limit for its members, Bacak has taken his networking endeavor as far as he possibly can. Known throughout the Internet marketing community as “The Powerful Promoter,” Bacak’s Facebook Friends’ list includes a who’s who of the Internet marketing industry’s elite. Jealous Internet marketers who would like to see who Bacak is connected with can do so by visiting his Facebook profile online at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=675977989. Continue Reading »