Monthly Archives: August 2009

Facebook apps stealing your data? Facebook shuts some down

We often give you insight into controlling the data you share across the networks and teaching the kids on what should be considered good sharing and bad sharing.  This falls into reputation control. Apparently some apps were pulling your credentials and starting to spam your contacts with phishing sites.  Trend Micro are reported to have…

Is Facebook and twitter making our youth narcissistic?

As I sat here at lunch, CNN just asked (and I mean 5 minutes ago), are our youth becoming narcissistic with the usage of Facebook and Twitter?  First, let’s define what a person with that disorder might be before giving my opinion: Narcissistic personality disorder is a condition characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance,…

Sued for privacy concerns – Facebook isn’t the the real cause

The San Francisco Chronicle just ran an article "Facebook sued over privacy concerns " outlining who and why they are being sued.  I can summarize the entire thing in a couple sentences: User joins a site in the past, present or future. User does not read any of the privacy or Terms of Use data…