Facebook Places has been widely reported and a lot of Facebook users have started using it. One of its features is that you can be tagged by other friends on Facebook Places. Some people might not liked being tagged at all as there it highlights your profile to people who might not be in your […]
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“This Friend Request Can’t Be Sent”-another irritating feature by Facebook and how to deal with it!!
Most of the people are on Facebook to make new friends, and I am one of them who loves to send request to random people on facebook.com. But this thing isn’t gonna possible anymore cuz of a new feature to prevent the misuse of Facebook. Obviously this is a good feature specially for those who […]
Personal Details of 100 mn Facebook users leaked online
Once again the facebook is in news for leaked details of it’s users. But this time it’s in a very large scale when the information of 100 million facebook profiles is available to download on net. This information was leaked by Ron Bowles, who’s an online security consultant. He used a code to search all […]
How to hide your profile pictures from everyone
Facebook, a social networking website which is popular for it’s awesome privacy features. It’s good and necessary too as most of the social networking website users are mainly want to be secured while using net. The privacy features of facebook is good but still it can’t beat it’s own old privacy features where you can […]
Facebook Recommends Making Your Photos Public!
This morning, I woke up to see new Facebook privacy settings on my Facebook account. Without wasting time I jumped to new privacy settings page to discover Facebook’s new privacy settings (read confusion). After brainstorming for a while, when I failed to figure out much from new privacy settings, I decided to check “recommended settings” […]
Did you Quit Facebook on “Quit Facebook Day”?
Facebook has recently had problems regarding privacy and many felt passionately enough about the ‘Privacy Issues’ that they decided to form a community which has decided to quit Facebook. This is basically a way to protest and probably gather Facebook’s attention on how strongly they feel about privacy concerns and that their loyalty to Facebook […]
Under 18? Facebook treats you different!
How does Facebook treat you differently if you register as a Minor? It has many built in protective features which includes not allowing everyone to view images and updates even if the minor sets the settings to everyone.
New Privacy Settings for Facebook are Out
Yesterday I shared with you about the new Privacy setting of Facebook in order to make our Facebook more secure. I am glad to share with you that finally you can edit your privacy setting in your Facebook profile. I am happy that these simple controls setting rolled out soon and now we can be […]
Orkut simplifies settings and themes
Orkut today announced some changes to the layout of it’s settings which will allow for great ease and control over privacy and other settings you have regarding your Orkut account. Is that a jab to Facebook and its privacy issues? 😉 So now it Orkut settings are neatly tucked under Orkut settings as you can […]
Use Zesty to check your Facebook data’s privacy
Facebook made some changes to its privacy policy and basically after that there has been an avalanche of criticism of Facebook for ignoring privacy concerns and in some cases even led to people wondering if they should be on Facebook anymore. Zesty is a great third party service to check what and exactly how much […]