Your friends can tell where you are and what you’re up to but are you also giving creeps a detailed map of your daily routine. Many smartphones and digital cameras come with geotagging capabilities, which means the location the photo was taken is added to the photo. This information is then used by some applications, for instance to sort photos […]
A mobile app called Foursquare, which notifies users of your location has been used as a tool for home burglars. A site named “Please Rob Me” is attempting to inform those of apps likes these, which provide information which puts them in danger of being burglarized.
On Tuesday, writer Farhad Manjoo posted a controversial article titled, “How Black People Use Twitter” on Slate.com. The writer attempted to expose Black people’s behavior on Twitter, describing popular Trending Topics like “Black Ghetto Baby Names” or “If Santa Were Black,” as a game of racial insults and buffoonery which involves a large sector of […]
Rapper Kanye West, who some are saying has the funniest Twitter feed of all time, has been on the popular social networking site for all of four days and amassed more than 345,000 followers. With celebrities and big brands, that kind of stuff usually happens. In April 2009, CNN and actor Ashton Kutcher […]
US troops are to be allowed to use social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook following a review of internet use and security. Defence department officials say the benefits of using social media now outweigh the risks to security. The ruling means that a number of sites blocked by the Pentagon in 2007 – […]
Responding to criticism of the privacy settings on Buzz, Google moved over the weekend to address concerns about its new social network service.
Google plunged into the world of social networking on Tuesday, melding pieces of Facebook and Twitter into a new feature, Google Buzz.