It seems that freedom of speech and social media do not go hand in hand. Recently, there have been many arrests over tweets and Facebook posts. Until recently, Twitter had never blocked an account, but after a group in Germany started tweeting neo-Nazi comments it decided to take this unprecedented step. It has also agreed [...]
Posts Tagged facebook privacy
Tuesday Morning Roundup: Latest Social Headlines (Nov 27th 2012)
Posted 27 November 2012 by AynsleyTagged As: Facebook, facebook marketing, facebook privacy, social media, social media followers, social media marketing, Twitter, twitter marketing | Categories: Social Media | Leave a Comment
Human social behaviour is evolving and governments need to deal with it
Posted 14 November 2011 by SandyTagged As: Facebook, facebook facial recognition, facebook privacy, germany facebook privacy | Categories: News, Social Media | Leave a Comment
Mark Zuckerberg has famously (or infamously, depending on your view) said that the age of privacy is over. Privacy no longer exists. From a man who makes it his business to encourage people to share as much information about themselves as possible, his stance is not surprising. He’s made token concessions to people who still [...]
Facebook has privacy settings – use them
Posted 7 November 2011 by SandyTagged As: Facebook, facebook privacy, facebook privacy settings | Categories: Social Media | Leave a Comment
A few years ago (three or four years ago, I think), researchers conducted a study to find out how willing Facebook users are to friend complete strangers. They set up two accounts for fictional “people” and used cute animals as profile pictures. It didn’t take long before both accounts had hundreds of friends. Even more [...]
Facebook continues to fall foul of user privacy expectations
Posted 28 September 2011 by SandyTagged As: Facebook, facebook privacy, onine privacy | Categories: Social Media | Leave a Comment
Facebook has kicked up a lot of fuss about Google’s approach to privacy. You know the adage about people living in glass houses? Well, apply it here. As most people will know, sometimes the only way to make big corporations hear you is to use a very public platform to shout out your complaints. This [...]