This is seriously genius. It can just show you that people don’t realize this stuff.
I’m patiently waiting for the site that filters on “got totally drunk last night and made a mistake. These huge breasts constantly get me into trouble.”

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I have newfound respect for online moderators who slog through potentially problematic user content all day. They get a real glimpse into the downside of humanity.
Facebook developers recently initiated me into Facebook Community Council, a secret shadow organization of vigilantes who destroy the content of ne’er-do-wells and miscreants. Our Council’s blood oath: “To harness the [...]

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Craig “Lazie” Lynch vanished from Hollesley Bay Prison in Suffolk in September this year close to the end of a seven-year sentence for aggravated burglary. Instead of hiding away from police Lynch has set up a Facebook account complete with a photograph sticking his middle finger up and boasts about eating 12lb steaks and his [...]

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We have just found out that the same defacement is appearing at at least one other site, mawjcamp.org. We are not able to see what was at this domain before, but it is now displaying the same defacement that Twitter was only a few minutes ago.
Twitter does not have the best record with security issues. [...]

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Wait people put stuff on Facebook they don’t want the whole world to see? Why the hell would you ever do something like that? That’s like putting all your important documents in a box on a street corner and expecting them to stay safe.
The most insidious part of Facebook’s scheme to expose user data has [...]

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Are you already feeling some ill will toward Facebook for splitting up your Facebook home page with a split “News Feed” and “Live Feed”?
Click “More” in your left-hand News Feed panel, then drag the “Status Updates” to the top of the update stack. Refresh your home page, and you’ll notice your default feed is a [...]

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As demonstrations have evolved with the help of text messages and online social networks, so too has the response of law enforcement.

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I’ll take a shot…

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Twitter and Facebook were paralyzed this past week by DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks. As I understand it, those attacks are still ongoing. In this Wired Epicenter blog post by Eliot Van Buskirk, open source advocates propose that the only real solution to this vulnerability is to engage in another DDOS: “distributed delivery of [...]

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Facebook.com screenshots… the new bash.org

This is why you shouldn’t allow your boss to be your Facebook friend. [pic] (imgur.com)

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Rock Daily was saddened to learn this weekend that Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor deleted his Twitter account, officially ending his tenure on the 140-character social network. What was once among our favorite Twitters to follow is now a “That Page Doesn’t Exist.” Reznor had in the past flirted with permanently absconding from Twitter after [...]

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Looks like someone should start putting up fake all-night events at random addresses in that town…
“Alright boys, there’s obviously forty-six raves going on all over town tonight. GEAR UP!”
Riot police raided a 30th birthday barbecue because they thought the organizer, who had invited his friends via Facebook, was staging a rave.
Four police cars, a riot [...]

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The truth is she’s a crippling dyslexic, and she really loves the guy in the picture whose name is Alan. You guys are really making their relationship unstable, could you please just chill?

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A Twitter-like machine from 1935, that looks like a prop from the movie Brazil.
Robot Messenger Displays Person-to-Person Notes In Public To aid persons who wish to make or cancel appointments or inform friends of their whereabouts, a robot message carrier has been introduced in London, England.
Known as the “notificator,” the new machine is installed in [...]

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The NZ couple who took off after a bank error dropped NZ$10,000,000 in their account have been finked out by a relative’s Facebook update, which tipped off authorities that they’re in China.
But their chances of being caught have increased after they were joined overseas by Ms Young’s sister, Aroha Hurring, who posted details about their [...]

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User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites even after people have deleted them, Cambridge University researchers have said.
They put photos on 16 popular websites – noting the web addresses where the images were stored – and deleted them.
The team said it was able to find them on seven sites – including [...]

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From David Martin, Vice President, Primary Research, Nielsen Online…
Oprah embarrassed herself on it with a stuck caps lock. That guy from Punk’d competed with “the most trusted name in news” for audience. A befuddled Jon Stewart shook his fist at it in anger. Let there be no doubt: Twitter has grown exponentially in the past [...]

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He’s only been on the job for two weeks, but MySpace’s new CEO Owen Van Natta is already getting plenty of suggestions for how to “fix” the social network. Sure, MySpace has been generating revenue for longer than some of its rivals. But it is falling out of favor with both users and potential business [...]

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Here’s a development from The Pirate Bay crew that is bound to send shock waves through the entertainment industry. Over the weekend, The Pirate Bay quietly released a new feature that enables direct torrent linking to a user’s Facebook profile.
There’s never been anything preventing a torrent link on Facebook, so the concept itself isn’t very [...]

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You’ve got about a day and a half left to cast your vote for which Terms of Service you’d prefer Facebook go with—the one written in September 2008 without user input, or the new one they’ve drafted over the last month based on suggestions from the Facebook community.
Here’s the interesting thing, though: Facebook is calling [...]

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