Just before Facebook’s privacy blow up, the company announced that they were going to make the service more secure against hackers.  I encountered something that was undoubtedly a result of these new measures.  Below is what happened with my own account.  I logged in to see the following: This type of monitoring seems to be [...]

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With Twitter’s relatively new popularity come those who want to exploit it for financial or other type of gain.  A few weeks ago Twitter users were being sent links to malware.  Those who clicked the links were directed to a site where malware was downloaded.  The malware then sent out links from the newly infected [...]

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At the end of April, Twitter introduced a real-time search feature integrated into the web interface.  This also included a listing of trending topics.  Since then there’s been an increase in memes that seem to be aimed at manipulating the trending topics. Some examples of these are: #turnons, #turnoffs, #inappropriatemovies and #notagoodlook.  Twitterers participate in [...]

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Until recently I was under the impression that Facebook’s Friend Finder would suggests friends based on common friends or on common schools or employers.  That had been the bulk of the suggested friends I was getting. A few weeks ago, I noticed that Facebook had started suggesting people that I know that had no common [...]

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I decided to take a trip to New York for the weekend as an early birthday celebration. I took the Bolt Bus from downtown DC. Like a baby I was awakened when the bus stopped moving only to see the remains of what looked like a horrific accident on the New Jersey Turnpike. There was [...]

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