Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

Will Facebook be around in 20 years?

Posted: 30th April 2012 by By Adrian Willings in Ramblings
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Soon my child will be welcomed into the world. After seeing the Google adverts for Gmail and G+, I was inspired to do something similar. But as much as Google might be trying to force G+ down our throats, I can’t see it surviving unless they make it essential to our web experience. So my [...]

It’s been an interesting few days. I’ve learnt a lot and re-learnt something I already knew – I HATE Facebook. Still, I’m writing this article because it might be useful to someone, somewhere. Creating a Facebook Band Page Let me set up the scene for you. I’ve been helping to promote DJ Format and raise [...]

According to internet rumours, Google is planning to launch a “Google Me” a Facebook contending social networking site. Some have knocked down the rumours, others have enhanced it. Personally I think they could pull it off. With all the recent grumblings about Facebook privacy policies it wouldn’t be too surprising to see quite a few [...]

Facebook Privacy Ball’s Up

Posted: 25th May 2010 by By Adrian Willings in Ramblings
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I hate Facebook at the best of times. So I sniggered slightly when I read the recent news about their privacy settings balls ups. Take a look at the Ars Technica article for a full heads up. Basically, Facebook bosses have made changes to privacy settings which mean that more information from a persons account [...]

Facebook Profiles Stolen and Sold For Cash

Posted: 19th May 2010 by By Adrian Willings in Interesting Discoveries
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Word around the internet (or rather, around the office, then on the internet when I Googled it) is that Facebook has been hacked (again) with over a million user accounts being stolen and sold on the “black market” (see this article in “The Sun“). There are apparent doubts as to the truth of the whole [...]

Facebook can bite my shiny metal…

Posted: 27th April 2010 by By Adrian Willings in Ramblings
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I keep getting Facebook friend invites sent to my Googlemail account. This might not seem strange except I don’t have a Facebook account (or rather I did but I closed it down) and when I did I used my Yahoo e-mail address to sign up. So the question is, is this Phishing e-mail, has someone [...]