READERS of this column know I don’t do Facebook.
In a previous piece, I had outlined my many objections to the social networking site, including serious safety and privacy concerns. This month, many of those concerns were brought home by two cases that highlight the dangers of trusting people you meet online.
IT’S been an interesting week for search engines.
Google last week announced that it would start blocking Facebook and other social networking sites from accessing its user data unless the information flows both ways. Most industry watchers saw this as a sign that competition between the two Internet giants is heating up.
A FUNNY thing happened on the way to the Facebook log-in page. Earlier this month, hundreds of users wanting to log into Facebook got “lost” and stumbled into a technology blog instead that had just written about the social networking site. And they couldn’t tell the difference.
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