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Moroccan Sentenced to 3 Years for Facebook Joke
Moroccan computer engineer Fouad Mourtada, 26, was sentenced by a Casablanca court to three years in prison over a Facebook profile of the younger brother of Moroccan King Mohammed VI. The court alleged that Mourtada was "usurping the identity of HRH Prince Moulay Rachid," and faking computer documents.
Fake Facebook Prince Sentenced To Jail
Facebook users were surprised to find out that they could go to jail for impersonating a celebrity on Facebook.
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Facebook, Social Networks Show Slowing Growth
Facebook Traffic is leveling off, other Social Networks too - are people losing interest?
The number of people who visit Facebook has been leveling off over the past few months in the U.S., and even dipped by about 800,000 individuals in January. According to the latest stats from comScore, Facebook attracted 33.9 million unique visitors in January, 2008, down 2 percent from 34.7 million in December, 2007. Maybe all that friend spam has something to do with the decline. Will the Facebook fatigue get worse, or is this just a temporary dip?
Facebook suffers 'first-ever' monthly drop in UK visitors
UK visitor numbers at Facebook fell for the first-time in two years, new figures today claimed.
According to analyst Nielsen Online, 400,000 fewer people visited the social-networking site during January.
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Share MP3s With Your Facebook Friends Using DoubleTwist
The new desktop application DoubleTwist lets users share audio, video and photos between their computers. It can also strip the digital rights management restrictions from songs purchased from iTunes by rerecording them into the MP3 format, so you can share those too. (Also, by creating DRM-free MP3s from your iTunes music, DoubleTwist frees those files to be played on any digital audio player -- not just an iPod or iPhone.)
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John Key takes campaign to Facebook
John Key has opened a new front on the political battlefield, with the launch of his official Facebook site.
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Hackers Exploiting Facebook Plug-ins
If you use Internet Explorer (versions 6 or 7) to browse the Web, listen up: Criminals are starting to exploit security holes in several widely installed IE plug-ins to plant invasive software when users are coerced or tricked into visiting one of several Web sites.
Hackers ramp up Facebook attacks
Five-exploit toolkit includes code aimed at Image Uploader ActiveX control
Hackers are actively exploiting an Internet Explorer plug-in that's widely used by Facebook and MySpace members with a multi-attack kit, a security company warned Friday.
The exploit directed at Aurigma Inc.'s Image Uploader, an ActiveX control used by Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites to allow members to upload photos to their profiles, is just one of five in a new hacker toolkit being used by several Chinese attack sites, said Symantec Corp.
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Proper social etiquette for Facebook
OK, I've had a page on the social networking site Facebook for four months now, and I still have seven very middle-aged, clueless questions about it:
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The New Hotel California: Facebook
'You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave'
Many users join Facebook or the "social network that connects you with the people around you" and never realize that they've walked into a room surrounded by hidden surveillance cameras.
"It's like the Hotel California," Nipon Das, an ex-facebook member said to the New York Times. "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."
For two months Das tried to erase his profile and even with help from Facebook's customer service representatives, his profile was still found.
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