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Facebook Now Lets Anyone Message You At No Cost

Facebook has once again changed its privacy settings, allowing anyone to message you, where previously you could limit who could message you. It was a great mechanism that stopped randoms from sending you messages. I was greeted with the following “information” on my account this afternoon. For some time, Facebook has been toying with the […]

Instagram / Facebook Social Media Lesson

There is a lot of huff and puff spreading online in regards to the change of policy with the social media photo-sharing application, Instagram, which allows it to perpetually sell user photos without payment or notification. While – (as I’m not a lawyer) – I’m not going to attempt to decipher at any level of […]

Facebook Ads: Does Anyone Check Them?

Like most people, I’ve always felt that many of the adverts alongside profiles in Facebook are undoubtedly dodgy. Take these couple of “iPhone” ads I’ve noticed this week: The first one boldly proclaims an “iPhone 4S” for only $8.45? Even if the price was correct – (lets be honest, it sounds like crap to me) […]

Media Tripe and How Not To Use Facebook

I often get frustrated with how technology problems are portrayed in the mainstream media. Invariably, a nameless staff writer gets tapped to write a quick story about a tiny snippet that has appeared on a wire service somewhere, generally without any real knowledge or understanding of what they are trying to write about. This example […]

Epic DOOM Comment FTW!

I got a chuckle out of a comment against a story regarding the banning of Facebook for Year 7 and Year 8 students at Geelong College. School Bars Facebook What started as an apparent vote of confidence in the policy turned into vote of confidence for the quintessential series of shoot-em-up games of the 1990’s, […]

Ambiguous Facebook Fail

A light hearted one for Australia Day, I just saw this on Facebook. Circled in red we see “Application Requests”: So I clicked it, and the box popped up to say they had moved. Nope, it’s in two places. Facebook is cluttered enough without putting things all over the place. I’m sure people would find […]