Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’
Facebook spinning a lil bit of Google smear
One of the topics we muse about here on ThePaepae.com is various attempts people make to masquerade as things-they-are-not. e.g. Dean Letfus as an unbiased and experienced ‘property expert’, Shaun Stenning as an ‘internet marketing expert’ who has ‘made millions’, Sean Wood as a ‘satisfied customer’ of (ahem) Sean Wood, Bernard Whimp as a straightforward […]
Facebook = ‘public’
And here is a ‘definitive’ answer from the Poacher’s Union Press Council … Facebook ‘public’ says watchdog 27 February, 2011 The Press Council has rejected a complaint against the Herald on Sunday by a man upset a picture off the social networking site Facebook was used in print. Api Hemara said the picture, run in […]
A friend’s lament – from FB to newspaper
A new version of the clichéd reporter’s question: ‘How do you feel?’… I don’t know the background, but I observed this morning that a young woman’s lament on Facebook about her friend’s death in a car crash was reproduced on a news website, along with a photo purportedly of the two of them from the […]
Facebook info purloined. I guess I’ll be sorry when this isn’t news.
Another day another Facebook abuse. This woman’s Facebook profile and name and an image was used in an advertisement — snatched from Facebook by a ‘friend’ who worked for Vodafone creative… NZ Herald So, having slaughtered the words ‘friend’ and ‘like’, what? We’re now we’re redefining ‘public’?: Privacy lawyer John Edwards said while Vodafone could […]
But, but, but … well, bravo!
I hate to be a nag about Facebook, but this is the sort of thing that makes my blood run cold. Good on these guys for exposing what can happen … What they did was set up a fake ‘Dating’ website called Lovely Faces .. and populated it with REAL names, locations and photos — […]
Oh boy. USD $8.5million for a domain name …
Facebook paid USD $8.5 million to acquire the Internet address ‘fb.com’ — from American Farm Bureau Federation — for internal use by its employees. — Reuters
Oh boy, another Facebook ‘enhancement’ …
OK, so first we’re offered this ‘upgrade’, then, what? we’re forced to do it? ‘You’ll be upgraded‘?? Errr, what if I don’t actually LIKE the new graphic-heavy profile? Ahem, Facebook: Isn’t the customer always right? A small issue, yes, I agree. Never mind. (Oh yeah, and maybe I’m NOT the customer…)
Facebook’s tentacles now part of divorce settlements!
Don’t let anybody tell you Facebook doesn’t matter. It seems for a certain type of person, what’s said about them on Facebook really matters. So much so that clauses relating to Facebook are, by the look of things, finding their way into matrimonial settlement agreements, along with who gets the house, the car, the credit […]
Facebook for Business? Erm, not like this!
Apropos my ongoing gripe about Facebook privacy… A friend of mine, Marc, mentioned here now and then, has written a book called ‘Facebook for Business‘ … this story (below) might inspire another chapter in the next edition. What NOT to do…. as Click Orlando Radio reports: ORLANDO, Fla. — A Central Florida woman claims a […]
