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    • Massive Myspace Blunder Erases 12 Years Of Music

      19 Mar 2019 by Carrie / No Comments

      If you were in a band with a Myspace account between 2003 and 2015, you better hope your music is backed up somewhere safe and sound.

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    • Ja, So Facebook Have Patented Technology To Use Your Phone’s Microphone Without You Knowing

      29 Jun 2018 by Nereesha Patel / No Comments

      Big Brother is watching, and now he’s also listening, too. One of Facebook’s latest patents is trying to push the boundaries of how much they know about users.

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    • Facebook Is Trying To Predict When You’ll Die

      27 Jun 2018 by Nereesha Patel / No Comments

      The social media giant is once again causing a stir, after it was discovered that they’ve filed a patent for a “life change prediction engine”.

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    • Facebook’s Biggest Problem Is Dealing With People Losing Friends

      17 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Facebook started in the college domain, where connecting to and sharing with everyone you met was ideal for any college student who wanted to stay in touch or know what was going on. But this model, which is basically still in use (though modified) is out of sync with the way people make and more importantly retain friends.

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    • New Technology Scans Your Face And Checks You In On Facebook

      14 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      It would seem Facebook is getting scarier and scarier every day. A new technology is being tested that will place a camera outside a building, which will use your Facebook pictures to recognise you and then check you in and offer you a special deal. Cool, or creepy?

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    • U.S. Lawmakers Consider Facebook Post Mortem Law

      16 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments

      What happens to your social networking presence after you die? Who does the online you belong to? These are pressing issues being deliberated by at least two U.S. states this week as more and more pressure is being applied to social networking platforms like Facebook to allow the relatives of users that have passed away to directly access their late loved ones’ profiles.

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    • How Much Facebook Is Worth And Other Interesting Facts [INFOGRAPHIC]

      13 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      This year Facebook will go public and start to sell shares on the stock exchange. Thanks to all of us, the social network is now worth $100 billion – more than giants such as Google, Disney, Amazon, and McDonald’s. But who is going to pocket all this money? Check out this infographic, detailing which Facebook friends will be getting pieces of the pie, as well as some other interesting facts:

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    • Harold Hackett Has Sent You A Friend Request On… Well, The Ocean Wave

      09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments

      Harold Hackett doesn’t use Facebook, LinkedIn or any of the vast array of dating platforms to make friends – he goes the Castaway route by tossing messages sealed in bottles into the surf near his home on Prince Edward Island, Canada. And it works.

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    • Facebook To Introduce Music Service

      01 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Despite topping the user charts with over 750 million users, social networking monolith, Facebook, is rolling out a range of new services to keep its users happily posting, perving and otherwise wasting valuable hours of productivity.

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    • Pope Benedict XVI Tweets For The First Time [VIDEO]

      29 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Pope Benedict XVI took to Twitter yesterday and composed a tweet on an iPad before sending it out into cyberspace. Granted, it did take about six other similarly aged cardinals and other officials to help him out, but it is the thought that counts, right? See a video of him tweeting, as well as his full Twitter message, inside.

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    • Facebook Apps Have Been Leaking Private Data To Advertisers For Years

      11 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment

      Surprise! Security firm Symantec yesterday reported that a hole in the Facebook security system allowed third-parties like advertisers access to user accounts and private data – and that this hole has been in place for the past four years, since Facebook first started offering apps to its users.

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    • Half-Naked Facebookers Arrested On Gautrain

      11 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment

      Your buddy calls you up and asks if you want to join him and 32 others to stand around in your underwear on the three fifteen to Blackheath. Says he read about it on Facebook. You tell him to go screw himself, right? Wrong. You ask him what colour boxers he’ll be wearing because you take Facebook very, very seriously.

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    • World Map According To Social Networks: Mind The Gap

      13 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Artist Vincenzo Cosenza has redrawn the world map based on each nation’s preferred social networking site – ranging from the reasonably well-known Facebook and Orkut to the bizarrely unfamiliar (here) Draugiem – unless you’ve got some friends in Lativa you’ve not told us about.

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