Google goes social with Facebook rival
Google, the king of internet search but not on the social front, has launched its rival to Facebook, a social networking service called Google+.“Online sharing is awkward. Even broken. And we aim to fix it,” Google’s senior vice president for engineering Vic Gundotra on Tuesday said in a blog post about the long-awaited social networking [...]
1 in 3 Parents of Teens Snoop on Facebook
One in three (34%) of parents of children age 13-19 have used Facebook to learn more about the parents of their children’s friends, according to data from Retrevo. This makes parents of teens the most likely of all parents of children younger than 20 to snoop on Facebook in this way, followed by parents of [...]
Older Facebook Users Catching On to ‘Liking’ Brands
It took older web users a few years to begin social networking after it had been popularized by the younger set, but they soon became the fastest-growing segment of users on sites like Facebook. Now it appears they are also growing into a specific social media habit that had been more popular among younger adults: [...]
Facebook ‘sorry’ for face tagging launch
Facebook has apologised for the way it rolled out new software that automatically recognises users’ faces without informing them. The social networking website admitted it should have done more to notify members about the global launch of the system.The new feature scans uploaded photographs and attempts to match faces to images already stored on the [...]
Facebook stirs privacy ire with facial recognition
Facebook’s move to enable facial recognition across its entire social networking site is raising some eyebrows – and possibly some legal woes — over its privacy implications.On Tuesday, Facebook announced in a blog post that it was working to make it easier for uses to tag photos of their friends and family members. To do [...]
