uSocial, a Brisbane based company, is best known for buying votes on social news service Digg, selling followers on Twitter, and running large marketing campaigns on social media.
Now it is selling off friends and fans on Facebook, in batches of 1000 to 10,000 for prices from $197 to $1297 – or roughly between $0.12 and $0.20.
Maybe you can have a virtual party with your virtual friends…
The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is another free way of liberating your digital self. Unfortunately Facebook have recently blocked the service, I wonder why?
Though, keep checking the Suicide Machine website, as they are fighting hard for your right to delete YOUR personal information from venus fly traps like Facebook.
“This is the end. My only friend, the end.”
You are more than your virtual identity
«Virtual life» is an – often – abused term used to describe the whole of one person online activities. But as media communications let our second/online/offline identities overflowing into real life – and vice-versa – the distinctions between the real and the virtual are becoming, more and more confused. Which is virtual? And where’s the real? Beyond all those questions only a fact remains: that our privacy, our profiles, our identities, our relationships, they are all – fake and/or real – entirely exploited for a sole purpose: to be sold as a product. But are those lives really worth to be experienced?
Pass away. Leave your ID behind.
With this great free tool, you can delete your online identity, naturally Facebook is fighting hard against such services, use it while you can.
A LONDON teenager was stabbed to death, allegedly by his best friend, after the pair argued over a Facebook party invite.
Salum Kombo, 18, was knifed repeatedly and staggered 400m before collapsing in a pool of blood.
He was said to have been attacked by his 15-year-old friend who held a grudge because he had shown “disrespect” in the posting on the social networking site.
A girl pal said: “Salum was killed just because he posted a stupid comment on another lad’s wall on Facebook.
The boy had initially written something on his wall to which Salum responded. It just escalated from there.”
With so much money to be made, it appears likely that all Facebook content that is not specifically restricted by the user, will soon be shared with the world via Google and other search engines.
Reuters reported today that Facebook users will be greeted this week with a message presenting them with new options to customize privacy settings and directing them to a new, simplified overview page of all their personal privacy settings.
The changes will not, in any way, alter Facebook’s policies governing the kind of user information that is shared with advertisers, he said.
Earlier this year, Canada’s privacy commissioner said Facebook lacked certain safeguards to prevent unauthorized access of users’ personal information by third-party developers like game and quiz makers.
In October, Microsoft announced plans to incorporate Facebook messages flagged for the general public into its search engine results.
Google recently announced plans to incorporate certain Facebook data in its new real time search product, though the data will be limited to the special public profile Facebook pages created by celebrities and companies.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported today that:
“In 2004, aboard the yacht of a Sun Microsystems executive, the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and friends apparently dined on a koala.
Or so says Ben Mezrich, the multimillionaire American novelist who has built a career – and scored several lucrative film deals – from charting the success of young geeks who strike it rich.
His latest, The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook, which charts the rise of Facebook from Harvard dorm room project in 2004 to today’s multibillion-dollar force, will be released in Australia on Tuesday. Before the book was finished, the actor Kevin Spacey and the writer Aaron Sorkin – creator of The West Wing – had signed on to transform it into film.
Some of the more saucy tales were destined for the big screen, such as Zuckerberg and the early Facebook investor Eduardo Saverin getting busy with groupies in adjacent bathroom stalls. Or the time Zuckerberg was picked up by a Victoria’s Secret model at a San Francisco party.
Zuckerberg refused to be interviewed for the book and many of the salacious tales appear to have been provided by Saverin, who was pushed early from the company and became embroiled in a legal battle with Zuckerberg.
Mezrich frames the story around Zuckerberg and his co-founders creating Facebook as a way to pick up women, to party and to get into a private Harvard club. Zuckerberg is portrayed as a back-stabbing genius with a fetish for Asian women.
The book is marketed as non-fiction, and Mezrich insists it is a true story based on interviews with hundreds of sources and extensive court documents.
But the business wranglings are equally enthralling. Controversy has followed Zuckerberg since his 2003 launch of Facesmash, a “hot or not” site featuring photos of Harvard students after Zuckerberg was rejected by a young woman.
Zuckerberg was almost kicked out of Harvard for raiding the university’s network and downloading private ID pictures for his Facesmash website. “Perhaps Harvard will squelch it [Facesmash] for legal reasons without realising its value as a venture that could possibly be expanded to other schools (maybe even ones with good-looking people . . . ),” a young Zuckerberg wrote presciently at the time.
Once Facesmash transformed to Facebook, Zuckerberg’s former Harvard classmates, the twin Olympic rowers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, sued him claiming he stole their idea and source code for Facebook when they asked him for programming help in 2003. The case settled last year for $US65 million, chump change for Zuckerberg considering the 25-year-old is now the world’s youngest billionaire, based on Facebook’s most recent valuation of $US6.5 billion.
Last year, another Zuckerberg Harvard buddy, Aaron Greenspan, who was working to develop a social networking site around the same time as Zuckerberg, petitioned to have the Facebook trademark cancelled. He claimed he came up with the Facebook name and that Zuckerberg stole some of his ideas.
Greenspan and Zuckerberg settled for an unknown amount but not before Greenspan was able to release Authoritas, his account of Facebook’s inception.”
A British judge has made official what many of us have long suspected – that being “Facebook friends” with someone doesn’t necessarily make you their friend.
The magistrate was presiding over a harassment case in which a woman accused her former boyfriend of hounding her by sending her a “friend request” on the popular social networking site on January 21.
The ex-boyfriend, Michael Hurst, 34, was cleared of the charge after the magistrate accepted his argument that the contact was highly innocuous because being “Facebook friends” could not be defined as “friendship in the traditional sense”.
“[Popular British radio DJ Chris Moyles] has 1 million Facebook friends. Do you think he knows them all intimately?” Mr Hurst said.
Post your experiences with the book of faces in the comments of this post.
More than 50,000 Facebook users signed a petition calling on the company to alter or abandon its Beacon advertising technology. When Facebook users shopped online, Beacon told friends and businesses what they looked at or bought.
Many considered the data sharing to be an intrusion that exposed them to more scrutiny than was comfortable.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7120916.stm
Well done people!!
Facebook “people” are everywhere. They harass you to join, post embarrassing photos about you on their profiles and even set up fake ones pretending to be you. What can we do? They are an army of mindless slaves walking to the beat of the facebook corporate drummer. They say they enjoy it, and have “so many friends”. But we know the truth. The cold, dark truth about the menace that is the book of faces. Yet there is hope. You have found a sanctuary, a garden of Eden where you can kick back, vent and laugh at the face book inbred family. We prefer privacy over telling the world our latest and dumbest thought. Ooh look at me “Bill is currently wondering what to have for lunch” Fascinating! So glad you posted that on your profile… seriously… facebook is for retard pack followers.
Add your own reasons why you hate facebook in the comments of this post, and together we can all spread the word via the old fashioned way, talking, that facebook sucks and it’s time for them all to get a REAL life… down with the book of faces!
Virgin Atlantic sacks staff over Facebook comments
Monday, November 3rd, 2008Virgin Atlantic has sacked 13 of its cabin staff after they criticised the airline and some of its passengers on social networking website Facebook.
The action follows an investigation into the remarks posted on Facebook, which concerned planes flying from London’s Gatwick airport and insulted passengers, as well as reportedly saying the planes were full of cockroaches.
The Independent reported that the airline’s passengers had been referred to as “chavs” – a British term similar in meaning to Australia’s “bogan”.
“Following a thorough investigation, it was found that all 13 staff participated in a discussion on the networking site Facebook, which brought the company into disrepute and insulted some of our passengers.”
It said cabin staff who held such views could not uphold the expected standard of customer service.
“There is a time and a place for Facebook. But there is no justification for it to be used as a sounding board for staff of any company to criticise the very passengers who ultimately pay their salaries,” a spokesman said.
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