Contrary to popular belief, what you post on your Facebook profile may not actually hurt your job prospects. It could actually tell employers how you'll perform on the job, a new study suggests.
According to researchers, the content of someone’s Facebook profile can predict their performance at work.
While Facebook continues to add new accounts in certain countries, some users appear to be getting bored of the world’s largest social network.
It's official: Facebook is going public, in what promises to be the biggest Internet-based initial public offering (IPO) ever. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of the social networking giant, made the announcement today.
If you were staying off Facebook or Twitter because it may have been sacrilegious, you’ve lost your excuse.
Pope Benedict XVI has given social networking his blessing, saying some services and search engines are “the starting point of communication for many people who are seeking advice, ideas, information and answers.”
While the feature has been available to users for several weeks, it appears Facebook is ready to now force its new Timeline feature on all users whether they like it or not.
Timeline is the new, scrapbook-like profile design. It features a big banner-like image across the top of your profile page, than image-heavy updates appearing as you scroll down. The posts appear in a somewhat-chronological order, geared more toward the aesthetics than functionality of it all.
Since early December, users were able to enable Timelines or keep their old, traditional profile designs. Well their time is up.
Social media is a great way to engage your customers, but sometimes it goes horribly wrong. Timothy's Coffees of the World found that out recently, when a special offer associated with its Facebook page went viral.
A campaign claiming to turn your Facebook pages from boring blue into bright pink or sexy black is taking unsuspecting users for a ride.
Users will see a post from one of their friends claiming to Facebook into a different colour. One example is a post that reads “Switch to Red Facebook (Limited Time). Say goodbye to the boring blue profile and say hello to the new pink profile!!”
Google rocked the search world on Tuesday, with an announcement that bought together social network content and search results at a level not seen before. It launched Google Search Plus Your World (SPYW), which folds content from your social networks into your regular Google search results.
You might be able to now buy Facebook business cards, but others might be able to get into your account with word that hackers have stolen usernames and passwords for 45,000 users on the world’s most popular social network.
The info was stolen by a worm, which was originally designed to steal banking information.
Remember that scary video we showed you a couple of months ago, in which an Internet stalker accessed your Facebook account, and proceeded to pull up information about your family and friends? Now, thanks to Israeli entrepreneur Avi Charkham, you can take back control of your Facebook permissions, to ensure that only the people you allow have access to your personal data.
Danny Bradbury is a technology journalist with 20 years' experience. He writes regularly for publications including the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Financial Post, and Backbone magazine. Danny also writes and directs documentaries.
Maurice CachoMaurice Cacho is a Toronto-based journalist mixing his love for tech with a passion for news. He's also CP24's Web Journalist and appears daily on CP24 Breakfast and weekly on the channel's tech show, Webnation, discussing tech news and trends.
