Interesting tidbit from betanews.com: During 2009, nearly 13 billion of these status updates were posted, and Facebook has released its “Top Status trends of 2009,” indicating just what was on people’s minds. The top status update trend was “Facebook Applications,” which includes automatic posts made by the hugely annoying Farmville game from Xynga. This game [...]
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Breaking News: Anything you put on Facebook can be made public
And Gawker says it’s EVIL: Facebook’s privacy pullback isn’t just outrageous; it’s a landmark turning point for the social network. Facebook has blundered before, but the latest changes are far more calculated. The company has, in short, turned evil. Its new privacy policy have turned the social network inside out: millions of people have signed [...]
How Facebook Can Set You Free
From the NYTimes, Hat Tip, Integreon: The message on Rodney Bradford’s Facebook page, posted at 11:49 a.m. on Oct. 17, asked where his pancakes were. The words were typed from a computer in his father’s apartment in Harlem. At the time, the sentence, written in street slang, was just another navel-gazing, cryptic Facebook status update — meaningless [...]
LEGALTECH New York Has Just Added a New Friend on Facebook
The growing relationship of e-discovery and social media continues… From Reuters: Mark S. Howitson, deputy general counsel of Facebook, will deliver the day two keynote address at ALM`s upcoming LegalTech New York 2010, the nation`s largest and most prestigious legal technology conference and trade show. LegalTech New York will take place February 1-3 at the Hilton [...]
In the Eye of the Beholder: The Relevance of Facebook Evidence
From Bow Tie Law’s Blog: Social networking litigation will be written by the end users of those websites. In Bass v Miss Porter’s School, the Defendant school sought from the Plaintiff discovery of her alleged teasing and taunting on Facebook. Bass v. Miss Porter’s Sch., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 99916 (D. Conn. Oct. 27, 2009). The [...]