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When you make up numbers - you could at least put 10 there so that it looks genuine :lol:
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Tribble wrote:Can someone give me Rusty's phone number please? I am developing for a Call Centre company and the agents are currently being trained to sell 8.ta to the public. I am sure he would love to be added to their call list and hear what is on offer.
Number will be sent shortly... :P
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Cool :twisted:
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Mashable wrote:Facebook Accidentally Turns On Email Notifications, Sparks Wave of Complaints

Facebook has accidentally turned on email notifications for some users, and the social network’s users are complaining loudly.

Most users receive email notifications for events such as when someone sends a friend request or when a friend posts on their wall. This feature can be turned off in user settings, but apparently something has happened at Facebook that has caused the feature to be activated again.

“Some people are suddenly receiving email notifications for settings they had turned off, and the checkboxes are now checked,” Facebook said on its Known Issues Facebook Page. “We are currently working on a solution to this problem.”

As one might expect, affected Facebook users are not happy and are posting to Twitter and Facebook to complain.

We’ve reached out to Facebook and will update this story when we learn more.
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Mine isn't - thank goodness
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This is a few months old but still pretty scary
Earlier this week, roughly 100 million Facebook accounts were bundled together in a 2.8GB package and put on the torrents for anyone to download. Mind you, the information contained in the package was just a result of a programmed spider crawling on open Facebook profiles mining anything that was public information.

Clint, a Gizmodo reader, used Peer Block to checked out who else was downloading the torrent file and matched the IP addresses to corporations. Turns out that businesses (or at least those who are working for those business and using BitTorrent at work) are quite interested in the information of 100 million Facebook users.

The list includes:

A.C. Nielsen
Agilent Technologies
Apple
AT&T - Possible Macrovision
Baker & McKenzie
BBC
Bertelsmann Media
Boeing
Church of Scientology
Cisco Systems
Cox Enterprises
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Deutsche Telekom
Disney
Duracell
Ernst & Young
Fujitsu
Goldman Sachs
Halliburton
HBO & Company
Hilton Hospitality
Hitachi
HP
IBM
Intel
Intuit
Levi Strauss & Co.
Lockheed-Martin Corp
Lucasfilm
Lucent
Lucent Technologies
****** Electric Industrial Co
Mcafee
MetLife
Mitsubishi
Motorola
Northrop Grumman
Novell
Nvidia
O'Melveny & Myers
Oracle Corp
Pepsi Cola
Procter and Gamble
Random House
Raytheon
Road Runner RRWE
Seagate
Sega
Siemens AG
SONY CORPORATION
Sprint
Sun Microsystems
Symantec
The Hague
Time Warner Telecom
Turner Broadcasting system
Ubisoft Entertainment
Unisys
United Nations
Univision
USPS
Viacom
Vodafone
Wells Fargo
Xerox PARC
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/facebo ... 10976.html
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Facebook Calls User A Spammer, Gets Sued For $1 In Return. http://goo.gl/VkZiQ
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Flawed Facebook infringement complaint system takes down popular pages

My favorite part is this:
In Neowin’s case, this isn’t even the first time as it’s been hap pen ing since as then restored but was then taken down again, due to the same infringe ment claim.
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Frustrating. But funny.
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For those of you who like clicking every link on facebook, please read this:
It's pretty old but I still see there's so many people falling for this.

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/07 ... file-care/

It explains how the scams work and if you subscribe to Sophos's page, you'll be warned of the latest scams. :wink:
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We should start a short course teaching people how not to click on spamscam links. We'll make millions.

On a related note, maybe we should make an educational picture teaching people how not to click the links. Each time someone clicks on one of those you just tag them in the picture. Then create a Wall of shame/fail .jpg and then tag whoever after that doesn't get it.
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I find the spam scam and FB viruses quite enlightening. It's rather sad to see how many people actually wanted to view the Obama assassination video.
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Or that girl committing suicide. It's also somewhat sad to note it is usually the same people who fall for the same spcams. I can only imagine their reactions:

Person X goes onto facebook and see's a post on their News feed
"click on link to see teh real unicorn"
Their face when they see it = http://www.myfacewhen.com/30/
*clicks link*
their face after click: http://www.myfacewhen.com/110/
Followed by http://www.myfacewhen.com/181/
and then they usually make an update saying "someone hacked into my account. I didn't click any links what so ever. It just magically happened" (Their face while typing that http://www.myfacewhen.com/257/ )
User X returns to NewsFeed
"Click le link to see the baby poop"
The whole process repeats and they just go "dammit not again!!?" http://www.myfacewhen.com/243/
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Facebook has made two improvements to friend tagging: you can now tag a friend without first typing the @ sign and you can now shorten friend tags.

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Siemens you really expect us to click on those links? :lol:
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^^ Actually, they're all safe. ;)

*sigh* totp :facepalm:
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Ja well - these days you never know ;-)

I am not allowed to laugh today.
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Tribble wrote:Ja well - these days you never know ;-)

I am not allowed to laugh today.
I shall have to PM you a list of my favourite jokes . . .
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Oh please don't - it really hurts to laugh.
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The myfacewhen pics was the whole point of that long post.
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4chan is advertising on my Facebook side panel. So much for anonymous.
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Lol use Ad Block and you will never see the ads
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http://www.bgr.com/2011/06/30/facebook- ... next-week/
Facebook CEO says company will ‘launch something awesome’ next week
By: Todd Haselton | Jun 30th, 2011 at 05:40PM

Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the social network has plans to “launch something awesome” next week. There’s no official word on what will be announced, but we suspect it’s going to be the new iPhone photo-sharing service that we saw just last week. The service — which looked amazing in the leaked screen shots — will likely compete with other applications such as Instagram and Path. Rumor has it that inside Facebook headquarters, the new photo sharing app has been dubbed either “WithPeople,” or “Hovertown.” It’s entirely possible that Zuckerberg will also take the wraps off of his company’s native Facebook iPad app, since it would likely fit well into the photo-sharing ecosystem. Lastly, it’s possible Facebook will detail the next steps it’s taking with its Facebook Places check-in service, too, but given Zuckerberg’s use of the word “launch,” we’re not so sure. It remains unclear what day the announcement will be made.
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Farnsworth's voice:

"Good News Everybody!"

http://blogs.forbes.com/gordonchang/201 ... -facebook/
China Wants to Buy Facebook
Jul. 3 2011 - 5:58 pm | 105,151 views | 3 recommendations | 34 comments

On Thursday, Business Insider reported that China is trying to buy “a huge chunk” of Facebook.

According to the business news website, Beijing approached a fund that buys stock from former Facebook employees to see if it could assemble a stake large enough “to matter.” Moreover, Citibank is rumored to be trying to acquire as much as $1.2 billion of stock for two sovereign wealth funds, one from the Middle East and the other Chinese. Business Insider reports a third source, from a “very influential” Silicon Valley investment bank, confirms that Citi is representing China.

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yeh gods! Now we will really have communism in the Net too. Its bad enough that the great US of A wants to control the Innerwebs....
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