Posts tagged Facebook

Surfacing some potential privacy concerns in Facebook’s new Graph search, via actualfacebookgraphsearches: “Spouses of married people who like [cheat-on-your-partner dating site] Ashley Madison”

Surfacing some potential privacy concerns in Facebook’s new Graph search, via actualfacebookgraphsearches:

“Spouses of married people who like [cheat-on-your-partner dating site] Ashley Madison”

How do tech companies see you?

How do tech companies see you?

Mashable

via literallyunbelievable: Who knows about anything

via literallyunbelievable:

Who knows about anything

This infographic shows how the film industry successfully uses Facebook to promote new films (and to great profits).

This infographic shows how the film industry successfully uses Facebook to promote new films (and to great profits).

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You are like Facebook too.  Click the above link to make your own.

You are like Facebook too.  Click the above link to make your own.

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itswilder:

You’re entire life is online.

This video reveals the magic behind the magic, making people aware of the fact that their entire life can be found online. And by doing so urging everybody to be vigilant. 

Watch this baseball fan get nailed by a foul ball while updating his status on Facebook.  Brings a whole new meaning to “keep your eye on the ball”, and serves as a reminder that some status updates can wait.

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What do your favorite websites say about your politics?  Interesting analysis using Facbook likes, which doesn;t tell us as much about traffic or usage on the web by likely voters, just “likes”… via hipsterlibertarian: Like to sell stuff on eBay? You might be a Romney voter — and you’re probably very highly engaged politically. Like xckd and Tumblr? You’re totally in the Obama camp — but a bit less likely to exhibit political interests, at least if your Facebook likes are any indication. Over the past few months, we’ve crunched countless “Likes” from thousands of users of Trendsetter, our first-of-its-kind platform that ties together polling, social influence data, and consumer preferences. We’ve used it to map the politics of the social web, analyzing the political partisanship of the user bases of various social properties. Using predictive modeling of Facebook likes, we tied political preferences and engagement to one’s choice of social media, and this bubble graph is the result. How accurate is this for your usage?  Obviously it fails no matter what for me, since there’s no way I’m voting for either of these guys.  Of course, it would probably also help if I didn’t use most of these sites XD

What do your favorite websites say about your politics?  Interesting analysis using Facbook likes, which doesn;t tell us as much about traffic or usage on the web by likely voters, just “likes”…

via hipsterlibertarian:

Like to sell stuff on eBay? You might be a Romney voter — and you’re probably very highly engaged politically. Like xckd and Tumblr? You’re totally in the Obama camp — but a bit less likely to exhibit political interests, at least if your Facebook likes are any indication.

Over the past few months, we’ve crunched countless “Likes” from thousands of users of Trendsetter, our first-of-its-kind platform that ties together polling, social influence data, and consumer preferences. We’ve used it to map the politics of the social web, analyzing the political partisanship of the user bases of various social properties. Using predictive modeling of Facebook likes, we tied political preferences and engagement to one’s choice of social media, and this bubble graph is the result.

How accurate is this for your usage?  Obviously it fails no matter what for me, since there’s no way I’m voting for either of these guys.  Of course, it would probably also help if I didn’t use most of these sites XD

Matt Galligan: Facebook Just Ruined Your Address Book

via mattgalligan:

Continuing with my series on User Experience, I’d like to point out an absolutely epic failure. So let me start this one off with a question:

What in God’s name was Facebook thinking when they defaulted everyone’s publicly facing email address to their @facebook.com address?

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theatlantic: Congressman Falls For Months-Old Onion Story About Planned Parenthood “Abortionplex” Meet Rep. John Fleming, the unfortunate Republican congressman from Louisiana who made that wonderful and all-too-common mistake of thinking that an Onion article was real and telling his Facebook followers to read it. Fleming’s Facebook status, from Friday, was posted by Literally Unbelievable, a Tumblr that collects images of Facebookers who think Onion satires are the real deal and post them on their walls. What’s doubly sad about this posting (obviously deleted now) is that The Onion article shared, “Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex,” is from May 2011 and is something of a viral classic, even inspiring some users of Yelp to “review” the facility described. So not only did Rep. Fleming (who calls abortion a “pernicious evil”) or at least one of his staffers believe Kansas now has an abortion clinic with “coffee shops, bars, dozens of restaurants and retail outlets, a three-story nightclub, and a 10-screen multiplex theater,” but it’s not even recent fake news. Read more.

theatlantic:

Congressman Falls For Months-Old Onion Story About Planned Parenthood “Abortionplex”

Meet Rep. John Fleming, the unfortunate Republican congressman from Louisiana who made that wonderful and all-too-common mistake of thinking that an Onion article was real and telling his Facebook followers to read it. Fleming’s Facebook status, from Friday, was posted by Literally Unbelievable, a Tumblr that collects images of Facebookers who think Onion satires are the real deal and post them on their walls.

What’s doubly sad about this posting (obviously deleted now) is that The Onion article shared, “Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex,” is from May 2011 and is something of a viral classic, even inspiring some users of Yelp to “review” the facility described. So not only did Rep. Fleming (who calls abortion a “pernicious evil”) or at least one of his staffers believe Kansas now has an abortion clinic with “coffee shops, bars, dozens of restaurants and retail outlets, a three-story nightclub, and a 10-screen multiplex theater,” but it’s not even recent fake news. Read more.