Eagle: Facebook Actively Cheating 85% of Followers in Effort to Force Revenue from “Promote” Option

The New Facebook Buttons: Promote, Despise, Abandon Charles Hugh Smith Of Two Minds, November 1, 2012 How many people would click “despise FB” and “abandon FB” if those were offered alongside the new “promote for a fee” button? Just in case you haven’t noticed, your Facebook activity may not be reaching the FB audience you …

DefDog: FBI reportedly pressing for backdoor access to Facebook, Google

FBI reportedly pressing for backdoor access to Facebook, Google By Jon Fingas engaget, 5 May 2012 Investigators at the FBI supposedly aren’t happy that social networks like Facebook or Google+ don’t have the same kind of facility for wiretaps that phones have had for decades. If claimed industry contacts for CNET are right, senior staff …

Marcus Aurelius: Chinese(?) Use Fake Facebook Page for NATO Chief to Diddle His Subordinates

Not sure I agree with NATO advice to their seniors to all start social networking sites.  I personally avoid that stuff like the plague. How spies used Facebook to steal Nato chiefs’ details NATO’S most senior commander was at the centre of a major security alert when a series of his colleagues fell for a …

Robert Steele: Twitter Burns Google / Facebook

This is fascinating at multiple levels.  Neither Google nor Facebook have been effective at helping humans “make sense,” now it appears that Twitter–perhaps combined with Hypothes.is–just might be a hair away from creating the skeleton of the World Brain. Twitter Just Fired A Cannonball At Facebook And Google+ Matt Rosoff Business Insider, 8 December 2011 …

Venessa Miemis: Future of Facebook Survey Results

Future of Facebook survey results Thanks to everyone who participated and responded to the 4 question survey for the Future of Facebook Project. Below are your results! We’ll be integrating these responses with the ones given by the experts for our final video and written report. See four graphs. Phi Beta Iota:  Weak signals, most fascinating …