After outraged users hammered Facebook for changing its terms-of-use policy to seemingly give the company vast control over users' content, analysts are wondering if the brouhaha will serve as the long-awaited wake-up call for users to think before they post.
External developers' applications can now access a wider range of information posted by Facebook members on the social-networking site.
Facebook introduced a new terms of service page Wednesday in its official blog, but a spokesman said there are no new rules for users to follow.
In a somewhat new twist to social networking, a lot of techies watched Tuesday's inauguration of President Barack Obama with all their Facebook|Computerworld friends.
While Burger King execs might have thought they were being pretty funny by offering Facebook users free hamburgers if they each deleted 10 online friends, Facebook wasn't getting the joke.
A report released Wednesday by a task force set up by MySpace paints a surprisingly benign picture of the online security and privacy threats faced by children. But the report's conclusion - that some of the common concerns about those threats may be overstated or misplaced - is drawing sharp criticism from some quarters.
Hey, I have this hilarious video of you dancing. Your face is so red. You should check it out.
A worm program that has been tricking Facebook users into downloading malicious software since July has resurfaced.
Facebook is resetting some user passwords and scrubbing the service of malicious links in an attempt to eradicate a fast-spreading worm that redirects infected machines to a little-known search site, the company and security researchers said Friday.
Facebook won a US$873 million (AUD$1.3 billion) judgment in a case against a spammer in one of the largest awards yet for a suit filed under the CAN-SPAM Act.
Scammers are trawling Facebook for victims using a convincing twist on the notorious 'Nigerian 419' scam.
A Facebook application is letting users remind people to vote for their candidate of choice in the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday by "donating" their Facebook status.
A malicious program that sprang up on Facebook.com in late July has surfaced again, this time using Google's Web sites to sneak around security filters.
Facebook updated its iPhone application this week, posting version 2.0 on Apple's App Store for free download.
A Facebook group formed for those opposed to the site's new design is nearing 2.7 million supporters, and the leaders are organizing a two-day boycott to bring their point across.
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