Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
Just because your Uncle Joe joined Facebook and you added him as a friend doesn't mean you can't upload photos from the keg party. Facebook just added finer privacy
Wired's Scott Brown contends that social network sites have moved beyond 'positive deviance' attractors to become the favored ecosystems of cool-hunters and marketeers. Our digital identities can now be inferred or reconstructed via the data-mining of unstructured information. For a pre-digital background on this see Adam Curtis's documentary The Century of Self (2002) on psychologist Sigmund Freud and public relations maven Edward Bernays.
One of the downsides to the Facebook Video application is the inability to embed videos to an outside website. With all of the flash-based video sites popping up and taking over, it's no wonder that one of the things people usually ask for most from these sites is the ability to share.
Some of the most popular Facebook applications are using highly questionable tactics to spread themselves virally. Users have noticed and complained, and Facebook ...
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