Lowlights from the world’s biggest petri dish for culturing hair-brained hoaxes
Tag Archives: Facebook
Of course Facebook logs calls and texts – people gave it permission
Facebook’s been upsetting quite a lot of people lately.
Facebook death hoax: Captain Kirk says, “I’ve not boldly gone yet!”
Has Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the USS Enterprise, also known as actor William Shatner, really been beamed up for the last time? (No.)
Anonymous “unhoods” alleged KKK members but innocents are smeared
Members of the loose hacker collective Anonymous followed through with their pledge to release the names of members of the Ku Klux Klan, but #OpKKK was flawed from the get-go by uncoordinated document dumps and erroneous information.
“I’m dying from boredom” Facebook posts lead to $1K fine for juror
The fine pales in comparison with the thousands wasted when the posts resulted in a mistrial.
You just won a 100-to-1 bet! What harm could a happy selfie do?
How often does a female jockey win the world’s richest two-mile horse race on a 100-to-1 outsider? If you had a winning bet, you’d be open-mouthed, too!
Boasting about your binges on Facebook could hurt your credit score
Do you know how many times the word “wasted” shows up in your profiles and posts? Credit analytics companies do. 
Check your Facebook settings to make sure your posts aren’t searchable
Facebook now allows you to search others’ posts, which (of course) means they can search yours. Lock those posts down people!
Snapchat makes users happier than Facebook, apparently
A study suggests that it’s nice not to have Major Life Events plastered on your phone. Better to have them poof into non-archived land. 
Your face could be sucked off Facebook and on to a national biometric database
Australia’s government is happy to jump on the high-quality, highly accurate imagery captured and linked to identities on social media. 