Social Networking
Worried about Your Facebook being Indexed by Google?
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Here is how to keep your data from search engines:
1. Click on your Profile page
2. Hover your mouse over the Settings menu at the top right and click “Privacy Settings” from the list that appears.
3. Click “Search” from the list of choices on the next page.
4. Uncheck the box labeled “Allow” next to the second [...]
Would you sacrifice your Facebook friends for a Whopper?
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Some of you are old enough to remember Burger King’s Where’s the Beef commercial from the 1980s. The commercial features three old ladies looking at an exaggeratedly large hamburger bun with a tiny hockey puck of a hamburger. Famously crabby Clara Peller, exclaims “Where is the Beef?” Now, the Web 2.0 folks are asking ‘where [...]
Child Pornography Charges against Your Teenager?
Thursday, January 15th, 2009Do you know what your kids are doing on the Internet?
Are your kids uploading pictures to social networking sites, or uploading videos to sites like You Tube?
No big deal?
Don’t ask, don’t tell?
Think again parents…
The London Times reports an alarming trend with teenagers and tweens emailing and texting suggestive messages and pictures. What started out as [...]
New Year Resolution: update acceptable use policy to include Web 2.0
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Happy New Year!It is very tempting to write about the top ten technology gadgets of 2008 or the top ten security problems for 2009, but I just can’t take anymore! Who let the paparazzi into technology reporting? Those articles would be more valuable if the authors would evaluate their predictions from the previous year and [...]
Gasp! Lindsay Lohan violates Facebook’s Terms of Service
Friday, December 5th, 2008The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this week that Lohan gave Facebook folks an earful (ironically on MySpace) for supposedly erroneously disabling her real account. Celebrities often have difficulties securing their online identities. This was not another case of mistaken identity, this was a case of violating the TOS. Facebook most likely disabled her account [...]