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I am letting Facebook go to town with my facepuppet profile.

June 21, 2010
I am letting Facebook create my facepuppet profile for me ... they weaseled my cell # out of me by coaxing me to not have to type in their security scrambles. (we will text you a PW they say) I noticed that I got stupider as that text came in

What little common sense I am able to retain after becoming facepuppet, tells me I better get on the all the text Spam you can stand plan with my phone provider.

I will add more updates here as to how they are doing with creating my facepuppet profile for me. I am lucky they are helping as they keep telling me I am only 25% complete.
 

The crisis sparked by Facebook's abandonment of privacy could be its downfall – but where would its users go instead?

June 21, 2010

So many people are opening my eyes to Facebook .... I found an article that opens as if it was me starting the story.

Let me start with a confession. I don't like Facebook. I never have. When I joined, five years ago, it was because I wanted an easy way to check on whether my journalism students were correctly spelling the names of classmates they were quoting in their news stories. To this day, that's pretty much my peak Facebook experience.

So it is with more than a little schadenfreude...


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Will Google Acquire Facebook?

June 21, 2010
I found an older article that caught my Interest as I do believe this will happen sooner than later.

My bet is that there is already an offer on the table, and that Facebook is seriously considering it. I’m also willing to bet that Facebook will file an S-1, even if they want to get acquired, and going public/IPO is *not* their primary intention… an often-used tactic to increase price/valuation at the 11th hour of negotiations (assuming, of course, their financials are good and their banke...
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Is this the Age of Facebook?

June 21, 2010
Facebook was founded (by one guy? ... yes that is up for debate) in Feb. 2004 with $716 million in funding.

Below is an article I found called the age of facebook.
by Michael Arrington 

Two years ago It wasn’t clear that Facebook had what it took to become one of the great technology companies. They had conquered the college market and were destroying the hopes and dreams of MySpace. But they were also reeling from the Beacon debacle and hadn’t pro...


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How do I remove myself from facebook? ... facepuppet feels your pain!

June 21, 2010
With so many people not knowing how to get off facebook ... I thought I would try to help, as a lot of people signed up for reasons that have nothing to do with how facebook is managing data.

1) Go through and find all the emails and other contact information (AIM, twitter, blog) of your friends, and create a little database for them. You'll be surprised at how many people's emails you don't know how reliant you are on Facebook to connect you to them when you can just take some initiative and ...
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The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now

June 21, 2010

In December, Facebook made a series of bold and controversial changes regarding the nature of its users' privacy on the social networking site. The company once known for protecting privacy to the point of exclusivity (it began its days as a network for college kids only - no one else even had access), now seemingly wants to compete with more open social networks like the microblogging media darling Twitter.

Those of you who edited your privac...


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"Diaspora?" the article featured on CNN

June 20, 2010

Diaspora is up against a true Giant

Sick of the barrage of Facebook privacy scandals?

Don't trust a multi-billion-dollar corporation with your photos and personal information?

Well, there may be an online social network for you yet.

It's called Diaspora, and it's an idea from four New York University students who say in a video pitch that big online companies like Facebook shouldn't be allowed to have access to, and to some degree "own," all of the personal data that flows in and out of ...


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