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Seattle Coffee Direct Decides You Need $40 Worth Of Coffee Per Day
If you've been tempted by Facebook ads promising cheap "introductory" offers from Seattle Coffee Direct or World Bean Cafe, located in the world coffee capital of Evanston, Illinois, readers Adam and Ivan say, "don't do it!" The ads promise t-shirts or a free coffee grinder as an incentive to sign up, or tempting introductory offers. But you're really signing up for a coffee delivery service for close to $80 per month. Or more, as reader Ivan learned. He says that the company accidentally billed him for, and sent, two bags of coffee per day. More » -
social networking
Facebook Nags You To Communicate With The Dead
If you've logged in to Facebook lately, you may have noticed the site's suggestions on the right-hand side telling you to write on the wall of someone you haven't communicated with in a while. This is merely annoying for most of us, but sort of a punch in the gut when the person you're being told to get back in touch with is dead. More » -
can-spam
Facebook Sues Spammer; Wins $711 Million
Facebook won $711 million in a lawsuit against a notorious spammer. Don't cheer too hard, though. The same spampresario owes MySpace $234 million for the same thing. More » -
privacy
Great, Your Doctor Is Talking About You On Facebook
Apparently the new generation of med students aren't as concerned as you might like them to be about sharing your medical information on Facebook or Twitter, says Time. More » -
social networking
Quiz Yourself About Facebook Quiz Applications And Privacy
What do Facebook applications know about you and your friends? What do you know about what Facebook applications know about you? If you have Facebook, you can take this handy quiz from the ACLU of Northern California that tests your knowledge of Facebook, privacy, and outside developers. More » -
can't buy me friendship
Aussie Company Will Sell You Facebook Friends
Here's a company that will help those who really, really need more help killing Col. Mustard in the parlor with the candlestick in Mafia Wars: Australian company uSocial is selling Facebook "friends" and Twitter followers by the batch. If you want 5,000 more adoring Facebook minions checking out your status updates, you pay $654.30. More » -
privacy
Complaint From Canada Prompts Facebook Privacy Changes
If you're suspicious of Facebook's use of your personal data, the social networking site has made some recent changes that may make you very happy. And for this, you canblamethank Canada. More » -
your photos
Watch Out For Pointless Self-Replicating Spam Facebook Application
Watch out for "[A friend] commented on a photo of you" notifications on Facebook. If you click on the notification and it asks you to install an application called "Your Photos," RUN AWAY. Your friend didn't comment on any photos of you, and the application exists to coax people to click on banner ads. More » -
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marketing
Facebook Says No To Advertiser Sponsored Accounts
Thanks to an update to Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, there will be one less place for advertisers to encroach onto your private life: your friends' news feeds. More » -
activism
Facebook Members Go After Coca-Cola
How long will it take for Coke to give up on its Facebook page? That depends how long its PR machine can keep deleting the "fun facts" on its Wall: More » -
grocery stores
Grocery Store Cancels Facebook Coupon Deal, Enrages Customers
Marsh, a grocery chain in Indiana and Ohio, made a special coupon available to their fans on Facebook. The coupon was good for $10 off a purchase of $10 or more. Great deal, right? Until the promotion got out of hand, and the store stopped accepting the coupon on Friday, with no warning to customers. Based on past similar experiences, you can guess how well this turns out. More » -
privacy
Facebook Bans Advertisers From Stealing Your Photo To Sell Stuff To Your Friends
Facebook has firmly told app developers that it's not okay for them to steal your wife's photo from her profile page and use it to entice others into a sexy local singles dating service. More » -
privacy
Facebook Lets Ads Steal Your Profile Photos To Sell Crap To Your Friends
The internet has woken up to the fact that Facebook can steal photos from your profile page and use them in ads targeted at your friends. More » -
free stuff
Free Food From Pizza Hut Via Twitter And Facebook
The new Pizza Hut social media intern has her first assignment, and it's to give out codes for free stuffed pizza rolls to the company's followers on Twitter and Facebook. Let's hope they've planned ahead better than KFC did. [Mashable] (Thanks, David!)
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facebook
Facebook Twice Feared Letting Angel Tread Its Network, Changed Its Heart
If you think 20th Century Fox was cruel to Dark Angel, canceling the show after just two seasons, get a load of what Facebook did to Dark Angel. Not the show, the person. Yes, there's a guy out there who legally changed his name to Dark Angel. And on top of the gloom of instilling massive disappointment in everyone who meets him hoping he'll be Jessica Alba, Dark Angel was deemed too fake of a name by the Facebook cops. So they booted his account twice. More » -
funny
Facebook Encourages Open Marriages—Just Ask Dan's Wife
One thing I personally hate about Facebook is how the ads co-opt my friends' pictures and use them to try to sell me stupid stuff. Dan received one of those types of ads yesterday, only the combination of text and photo selection was a little... um, let's say "open minded."
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privacy concerns
Facebook, Where Are You Getting These Crazy Friend Suggestions From?
This morning, I woke up to find an inbox full of readers freaked out about Facebook friend suggestions. What's the big deal about that? Privacy-minded Facebook users can't figure out where these suggestions are coming from, and aren't happy with the possibilities. More » -
privacy
Applying For A Job? Great, Give Us Your Google And Facebook Passwords
ReadWriteWeb has a scary article about the city of Bozeman, Montana. It doesn't sound like a scary place, but if you want to say, work for the City, you'll need to give them all your social networking usernames and passwords. More »
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