An investigation by the New York Times is stating that Facebook gave unauthorized access to personal user information to a number of companies, including granting Spotify access to private user messages.
With the recent changes that Facebook has made in regards to how your news feeds will change on the social media website, here is how you can keep updated on local news and events with the KOOL 101.7 Facebook page.
Often times on social media you will see electronic road signs that have legitimately been hacked saying something inappropriate, but a local sign was the work of Photoshop.
You can't always take things at face value on the internet. The latest example of this popped up this week, as people mistakenly thought they were doing a good deed by sharing a missing person story on Facebook. The problem is, the story was exactly a year old, and she had been found not long after being reported missing.
If you've been on Facebook for awhile, you probably remember the days of Facebook's news feed being so much more simple. Things were in chronological order, and there weren't any "algorithms" telling you what you should see and when you should see it. While we can't fix that completely, we can offer a good piece of advice to see the things most important to you first in your feed.
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Over the last couple days, another one of these status update-based hoaxes has popped up, and people all over my Facebook feed are going nuts sharing it. Just like every other time this has come up, Facebook is not going to do what these viral hoaxes say. Here's the text of the latest hoax you've probably seen (or maybe you've even posted yourself) by now:
Facebook has become omnipresent in the lives of most people. A recent research study suggests that more than half of all Americans have a Facebook account and visit it on a daily basis.
If you're familiar with Facebook at all, you know that the bulk of information is presented to you in the form of a "News Feed" - a listing of recent posts by your friends based on an algorithm that take
If you haven't been lured into clicking the "Most Used Words On Facebook" link - good for you! Your private data is more secure than 18-million other people. The Facebook app that sprung from out of nowhere a couple of weeks ago has been convincing users to give up all of their private data with just a few quick clicks.