Have you watched as your own embarrassing information has been posted to Facebook? Or perhaps your teen has been hurt by messages left by bullying classmates. The team at Mobistealth believes that many teen Facebook users are using the social network incorrectly or maliciously with alarming effects. The problem with Facebook misuse also extends to adult employees…
Facebook Removes Gun Sweepstakes Pages
Facebook is taking a stance against gun sweepstakes. The social network has removed at least five pages that were claiming to give away guns to network users. In one case a gun giveaway page was prepared to hand over an AR-15 rifle alongside several smaller weapons. The gun giveaway pages were being operated by gun…
ThingLink’s Interactive Images Now Available For Facebook Posts
ThingLink is bringing its own unique brand of interactive images to the Facebook platform. ThingLink allows users to create interactive images which provide clickable elements for the purpose of engaged interaction. ThinkgLink now allows users to use its online software to create clickable link elements and then to place them inside their Facebook Timelines. According…
Facebook Receives $18 Million Tax Credit To Build Server Farm In Iowa
How badly did lawmakers in Iowa want Facebook’s new state-of-the-art server farm? Bad enough to hand the company $18 million in tax cuts. The new Facebook server facility will be built in Altoona, Iowa and will cost $300 million. According to The Des Moines Register: The Iowa Economic Development Authority board today approved $18 million in…
Murderer Hacks Victims Facebook Page, Mocks Her Friends And Family
Friends of murdered teen Parwhine Lucia Mejia Kaur were shocked to log into Facebook this week and discover that the girls murderer may have hacked her Facebook page. The 18-year-old girl from Malaysia was found dead last week. Police found Kaur lying face down in a storm drain in Bandar Puchong. Police investigating the crime…
Facebook’s Iowa Data Center Will Be ‘Most Advanced’ In The World
Facebook is building a new $1.5 billion data center in Altoona, Iowa and it is expected to be the “most technologically advanced in the world. The center dubbed “Project Catapult” will cover nearly 1.4 million square feet and house three separate 466,000 square foot centers that will be built in two separate phases. Facebook has…
Facebook Home Downloaded 500,000 Times In First 5 Days
The Facebook Home platform for Google Android debuted five days ago and has thus far received just over 500,000 downloads. The apps Google Play listing revealed the 500k milestone and it was soon after confirmed on Twitter by Ben Evans. Facebook Home allows users to make the social network the central hub of their smartphone…
Facebook Emoticon Turns Your Frown Upside Down – Forcefully
Facebook recently rolled out its new emoticons to the masses, allowing users to choose if they are sad or happy and then displaying those emotions in true Myspace flare. Unfortunately a bug in Facebook’s new mood sharing feature this morning was forcing “unhappy” people to turn their frown upside down. Attempting to search for and…
Anaheim Teacher Faces 44 Years In Prison For Underage Facebook Sex Scam
30-year-old Zachary Joshua Reader, a former Anaheim, California teacher is facing 60 felony accounts and 44 years behind bars after he tricked over 100 underage boys into sending him nude photo via Facebook. The former teacher and baseball coach scammed boys from 13-17 years old into sending him naked photos over a three year period.…
Husband’s ‘Other’ Wife Found On Facebook
A man’s ‘other’ wife was found on Facebook recently after his new wife posted news of their nuptials on the social network. The 38-year old Australian women received a message from the man’s other wife just a short time after she posted the announcement with her new last name. The message reads: “Hello, new Mrs. Keyet.…
Dad’s Facebook Post With Bullied Son Goes Viral, And How [Video]
One Wisconsin dad probably didn’t expect a humble photo of him literally standing behind his son in an anti-bullying post to go viral on Facebook, but such is the power of social media. Matthew Bent posted a photo of himself standing behind his son, Shiloh, who was “bodyslammed 3 times” by a bully after he…
Awkward Facebook Message: ‘I’m Married To Your Husband, Ma’am’
Facebook is awesome. It brings people together. Including women who are awkwardly married to the same man. Such was the experience of a 38-year-old Australian newlywed when her husband’s first wife reached out to her revealing that, in fact, she was still his wife. The “new” Mrs. Keyet (first name withheld) married her 40-year-old partner…
Twitter v. Facebook: Who Got Hurt In Instagram Battle? [Infographic]
How do things change in the social networking industry when “friends with benefits” alter their relationship? For example, did you notice that Instagram, once bosom-buddies with the popular microblog Twitter, stopped allowing its content to be viewed within Twitter cards? This happened at the end of 2012, and marked the end of the once beneficial…
Facebook Touts Ad Revenue Possibilities For Small Businesses, Intros Simplified Data Reporting Tools
Small business revenue is nearly non-existent on Facebook compared to large-scale enterprise businesses and the social giant hopes to change that fact. Two billion connections are made between Facebook users and small businesses at any given time and those connections account for 645 million pageviews and 13 million comments weekly. With massive numbers Facebook is…