MySpace, Facebook and Social Networking
A young council roads worker has been sacked after commenting on Facebook that the council had too many office staff and not enough workers.
Alec Armstrong, 21, posted the remarks on a Hepburn Shire residents’ page last month and had his employment terminated five weeks later for what the Victorian council called “intimidating or offensive” behaviour.
Ways to force Facebook to give parents access to their kids’ profiles will be discussed today by state and federal attorneys-general in a meeting that will also examine an 18+ Facebook age limit.
The idea was first proposed by a South Australian Family First MP, Dennis Hood, and is being championed by South Australian Attorney-General John Rau. Rau argued that giving parents assistance to supervise their children on Facebook would help protect against online predators and limit access to unsuitable material.
Infamous hacker group Anonymous has launched its own social network after being rejected by Google’s freshly-launched online community.
A message on the anonplus.com website promised that the Anonymous social network would be for everyone and listed online monikers of developers taking part in the project.
The exciting climax drew 7,196 tweets per second, according to Twitter. Paraguay’s penalty shootout win over Brazil in a Copa America quarterfinal later the same day came close to beating it with 7,166.
The previous record of 6,939 was set just after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day. Other spikes include bin Laden’s death (5,106 per second) and the Super Bowl in February (4,064).
Google’s ambitious attempt to take on Facebook is bearing fruit with Google+ now counting more than 10 million members and more than a billion items are shared there every day.
Rather, Google’s new social-networking endeavor is about trying to gain valuable insights into people’s lives and relationships. This could help the company do a better job of targeting ads so that advertisers would pay more and have less reason to spend their money on Facebook.
A new research finding which underlines the need for more investigation into internet-driven ”mind change”, says neurologist Susan Greenfield.
Baroness Greenfield, the high-profile British brain expert, says teenagers may be chatting with friends more than ever on Facebook but the loss of eye contact and physical closeness is unleashing changes equivalent in impact on humanity to that of climate change.
A Reuters review of the Westlaw legal database shows that since 2008, federal judges have authorised at least two dozen warrants to search individuals’ Facebook accounts. Many of the warrants requested a laundry list of personal data such as messages, status updates, links to videos and photographs, calendars of future and past events, “Wall postings” and “rejected Friend requests”.
In a recent Fox News interview, the 27-year-old “Black Swan” star was asked whether she knew about Sergeant Scott Moore’s video asking her to accompany him to the Marine Corps Ball in Greenville, North Carolina, in November. The annual event marks the founding of the Marines in 1775.
The world’s largest social networking website, Facebook, has entered a partnership with the software provider Skype that will offer its users the ability to have live free video chats with each other.
The move intensifies the heated rivalry with the internet search engine Google, which launched its own social networking service last week, called Google+, which includes a video chat feature for up to 10 people.
Google is leaving open the door to more co-operation with social-media giants Facebook and Twitter, and believes there is room for multiple social networks as it rolls out its own, executive chairman Eric Schmidt said.
He also said the company would co-operate fully with US antitrust regulators but will not let the formal probe launched last month distract or disrupt its strategy. He was speaking to journalists at the Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, in the US.