Social Media : Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, QQ, etc

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Woman sacked after ‘no work’ message on social networking site
Thursday, November 11, 2010 6:05:40 PM

Beijing, Nov 11 (IANS) A woman in China’s Hunan province was sacked from her job after she wrote on a social networking site: “At work, but not much to do”.

The woman, who was working as an accountant, in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, put the message - “At work, but not much to do” - in the status column of her Chinese instant messaging programme QQ.

Just four days after she posted the message, she was called to the manager’s office and told to leave, China Daily Thursday.

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read a short article that some people are spending 5 hours on Facebook!

pretty super ah? all the rest of the website n search engine can move aside liao.

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via : http://forums.vr-zone.com/chit-chatting/967273-who-wouldve-thought-ten-million-facebook-friendships-could-so-beautiful.html

Paul, an intern on Facebook's data infrastructure engineering team, recently took a sample of about ten million pairs of friends from Facebook's data warehouse and plotted out their relationships. The result? A stunningly beautiful—and accurate—map of the world.

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(1) Your personal information in FB's database is easily accessible by an intern.

(2) No wonder China is not embracing FB.

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catch me if you can. 

                Burglar thanks victims via Facebook       

Published Dec 17 2010

               A burglar in Washington, US, decided to rub some salt into his  victims’ wounds by posting a picture of himself with their stuff on  their Facebook page. Marc Fisher, a journalist at the Washington Post, reported  that sometime between the hours of 10 am and 12.45 pm. last Friday, a  burglar entered Fisher’s house through the basement door and helped  himself to pretty much everything of value that Fisher’s son owned.

He took a brand new winter coat, savings bonds, cash, a laptop and an iPod - but he wasn’t finished. After getting away he took the extra step of posting a photograph on  the Facebook page belonging to Fisher’s son so that it could be seen by  all 400 or so of his friends. But it wasn’t only the family’s belongings that he was after.

 

Show  off...The burglar uploaded a 'thank you' image to the victim’s Facebook  saying: 'Thank you for all the goodies, dawg. We’re good!'

Probably  an avid Facebook admirer, the man also felt compelled to upload a thank  you image to the victim’s Facebook page that was followed by more than  400 teenagers.

 The photograph was accompanied by a comment, "Thank you for all the goodies, dawg. We’re good!" DC police Officer Kyle Roe, explained that the burglar in question had made their jobs much easier:

 "I’ve seen a lot, but this is the most stupid criminal I’ve ever seen."
 However, it seems that Roe’s confidence in he and his fellow officers’ policing abilities was a tad misplaced.

They  haven't caught the guy yet even with the self-supplied mugshot,  possible fingerprint evidence and the IP address that he used to access  Facebook.

via : http://singsupplies.com/showthread.php?t=82618

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Mark Zuckerberg is in China! Yes, this is real. The founder/CEO of Facebook and Time Magazine’s newly crowned Person of the Year has just been spotted at the head offices of Baidu in Beijing. Robin Li (founder of Baidu) gave Mark and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan a tour of the building, and they even have lunch together in the canteen.


Mark Zuckerberg (left) Robin Li (center) Priscilla Chan (right)









Source: Spotted: Mark Zuckerberg in Beijing - Shanghaiist

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thought china have 人人网 人人-登录首页

China has its own version of Facebook called KaiXinWang and their own version of Twitter called Sina WeiBo. There are others but these are the 2 that I know are quite popular.

Farmville? KaiXingWang has something similar. Not sure if it is by the same people.

Google? Most Chinese don't miss it since they feel that Baidu does a better job.

Q-zone, this is the correct answer, maybe the second largest social network in the world. :songdah2:

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bigsale :
[QUOTEMark Zuckerberg Visits China Microblog Operator Sina

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continued his tour of China on Wednesday and met the head of Sina, the operator of a popular microblogging service and Internet portal in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. What’s more, Zuckerberg was received by top executives at the Sina headquarters, and according to Sina spokesman Liu Qi, Zuckerberg “exchanged his views on China’s Internet market and wanted to understand Sina’s Weibo (microblog), the hottest Internet product in the country.” And Zuckerberg said that Weibo is better than Twitter!

Just in case you are not sure with Sina Weibo, it’s the most popular microblogging platform in China. Sina’s star has been rising rapidly over the last year with the launch of Weibo, which added 50 million users in its first 12 months and is well on its way to break the 100 million mark in 2011.

The below images were taken by Sina employees and floated around on Weibo. There are some unconfirmed local reports saying that Zuckerberg met Wang Jianzhou, CEO of China Mobile (China’s largest mobile carrier) too. But so far, China Mobile hasn’t confirmed whether a meeting took place and neither were any pictures leaked out on the Chinese interwebs. We could not find any either.

















Source: Mark Zuckerberg in China, cont'd - Shanghaiist[/QUOTE]
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[tags] Weibo Twitter microblog

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saw a short clip on CNBC.

Mr. Facebook learning chinese. give you an indication on how things are heading.

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(Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu surprised his Facebook followers on Monday by posting a copy of his government pay stub, letting everyone know he takes home just 15,000 shekels ($4,200) each month.

The online disclosure came as the country's top officials and lawmakers are pushing for a pay rise, and the Israeli leader's Facebook page said he "decided to provide total transparency" following public requests.

Israeli media commentators described it as a public relations stunt, but still joked how they were caught off guard by Netanyahu's low pay grade compared to other world leaders.

A ranking of leaders' pay by The Economist last July put Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at number one, with a basic annual salary of $2.18 million.

Netanyahu's pay stub, from last month, listed a gross salary of about 44,000 shekels that quickly dwindled following taxes, health insurance and social security payments, as well as a 11,590 shekel monthly deduction for his armored car.

"It seems as though the prime minister, like many employees, opens his pay stub at the end of the month in wonder," joked Channel 10 reporter Chico Menashe.

Not listed were the many personal expenses covered by the government, commentators pointed out.

(Writing by Ari Rabinovitch, Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70953O20110110

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Uploaded by HouseholdHacker on Feb 27, 2011
Some people love it, most hate it. Here is how to get rid of Theater Mode on facebook for good. Theater mode is essentially an annoying pop-up box for photos on facebook which limits your ability to interact with the rest of the website. According to them, they do not plan on allowing users to disable it so we must take action!

Link for the script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/96773

Hang with me on facebook: http://facebook.com/dylanhacker

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FinalTidus :

Business Insider recently reported that China is trying to buy a $1.2 billion stake in Facebook, giving the country "a huge chunk" of the world's most popular social playground. If you're an active Facebook user, China's interest in Zuckerberg's social networking site is a scary one given the country's penchant for censorship. But should you really be concerned?

As Business Insider reports it, Citibank is trying to acquire up to $1.2 billion of Facebook stock for two sovereign wealth funds, one from the Middle East and the other Chinese. That sounds big, but Business Insider argues a billion dollar investment wouldn't buy China much influence in a social networking site expected to fetch $100 billion or more when it goes public. What's more, Business Insider says Beijing would be acquiring nonvoting stock, and shareholders wouldn't even have the right to look at what's on the site.

That's all fine and dandy, but according to Forbes, "there are other reasons to be concerned." Forbes argues that "Chinese leaders clearly view social media as a threat to their rule, especially after seeing its force-multiplying effect in the ongoing Arab Spring protests that have topped governments." Forbes believes that Chinese leaders have set their sites on controlling social media. Forbes points out that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg visited China in December and is set to return.

Image Credit: Technorati.com

"After the disastrous China experiences of Yahoo and Google and the troubled history of Microsoft there -- not to mention Beijing's recent tirade against foreign social media -- the Facebook founder appears both arrogant and naïve.," Forbes says.

You can read the rest of Forbes' perspective here.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/china_wants_acquire_12_billion_stake_facebook_should_you_be_concerned

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and the dangers of social media networking...

Casey Chan —James Dollins, a 42-year-old creep with a stressful scowl and receding hairline, has been arrested for soliciting teenage boys for child porn and sex. He invented a persona on Facebook, 'Kelly Redkin', an attractive 19-year old girl, to lure them.

Dollins was discovered when he became romantically involved (electronically, that is) with a 13-year-old boy. He used his persona Kelly Redkin, a girl who was "attending the University of Virginia", to contact the boy and began exchanging text messages, gifts and asked for nude pictures of the boy. When Dollins sent a care package to the home of the boy, his mother grew suspicious and reported it to the police. The police discovered that there was no Kelly Redkin...just a sick and perverted man trying to rob kids of their childhood.

Dollins had been making contact with multiple teenage boys as Kelly Redkin as early as October 2010 and has been charged with 10 counts of electronically soliciting minors for sex and 5 counts of soliciting child pornography. The police are unsure of how he got the pictures to pose as Kelly Redkin, which is sad, as it's probably some random girl on Facebook who has no idea that she was being used. [WTVR]

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some of you guys on FB might be interested to know how to do the above.

http://gizmodo.com/5830163/heres-how-to-remove-your-contacts-phone-numbers-from-facebooks-clutches

Here’s How To Remove Your Contacts Phone Numbers From Facebook’s Clutches



Facebook loves doing unexpected things with your data. Now it's culling numbers from your phone and adding them to its online database to "help you" find contacts. Don't trust Facebook with your mom's number? Here's how to fix it.

If you're syncing, Facebook's iPhone app will pull all the numbers in your phone's contact file and upload them to Facebook. While it notes that these numbers are only visible to you, Facebook has a way of, let's say, shifting its policies.

Worse, for many users these numbers are already in its database, and if you're not comfortable with that (and I'm not) you're going to need to manually purge them.



First, you want to get your phone straightened out so it doesn't sync anymore.

Using an iPhone, launch the Facebook app in your iPhone and select Friends. Tap the sync button on the top right and tap sync contacts. Turn off syncing.

If you're on an Android phone, go the main menu, and click on Settings. Under Other Settings, select Sync Contacts. Select Remove Facebook data.

Now you need to go to Facebook and actually purge any contacts that have already synced. You should go to this page, and select Remove. Bang. They're gone.

Take that, Mark.

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    September 26, 2011, 5:54 PM ET

Facebook Defends Getting Data From Logged-Out Users

By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries

Facebook on Monday defended its practice of gathering data from “Like” buttons even after users have logged out, saying that the collection is part of a system to prevent improper logins and that the information is quickly deleted.

The comments from the social-networking giant come after Australian technologist Nik Cubrilovic published findings showing that unique identifiers were sent from “Like” buttons when users were not logged in, raising questions about the privacy implications of Facebook’s vast presence on the Web.

“Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit,” Cubrilovic wrote in a blog post about the issue. “The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions.”

Here’s how the Facebook data collection works: When you log in to Facebook or visit Facebook.com without logging in, the site places small files called “cookies” on your computer. Some of these cookies remain on your computer even after you log out, and then whenever you visit a site that connects to Facebook – such as those with a “Like” button – information from those cookies is sent back to Facebook, providing a record of where you’ve been on the Web.

Facebook acknowledges that it gets that data but says it deletes it right away. The company says the data is sent because of the way the “Like” button system is set up; any cookies that are associated with Facebook.com will automatically get sent when you view a “Like” button.

“The onus is on us is to take all the data and scrub it,” said Arturo Bejar, a Facebook director of engineering. “What really matters is what we say as a company and back it up.”

In a statement, a Facebook spokesman said “no information we receive when you see a social plugin is used to target ads.”

Bejar said Facebook is looking at ways to avoid sending the data altogether but that it will “take a while.”

So why does Facebook keep cookies after you log out in the first place? Bejar said that it’s to prevent spam and phishing attacks and to help keep users from having to go through extra authentication steps every time they log in.

When a user logs in to Facebook from a new computer, the site will often make them take steps to prove that they are who they say they are, rather than someone attempting to log into an account improperly. Cookies allow Facebook to skip those steps when people are logging in from a computer they’ve used before, Bejar said.

But Facebook has been under fire lately over privacy, and the fact that Facebook is getting data at all after people have logged out is raising concerns. “This is not what ‘logout’ is supposed to mean,” Cubrilovic wrote.

This is not the first time people have questioned how much information Facebook gets from “Like” buttons.

In May, the Journal’s Amir Efrati wrote that Facebook would continue to collect browsing data even if users closed their browser or turned off their computers, until they explicitly logged out of Facebook. The current findings, which your Digits blogger confirmed on her computer, indicate that the collection continues even after users explicitly log out.

And earlier this year, Facebook discontinued the practice of obtaining browsing data about Internet users who had never visited Facebook.com, after it was disclosed by Dutch researcher Arnold Roosendaal.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/09/26/facebook-defends-getting-data-from-logged-out-users/