“Facebook abuses users, lies for money.”

[Facebook lies to your friends and says you “liked” pages that you haven’t if their advertisers pay them enough.][link]

[link]: https://plus.google.com/+MikeElgan/posts/eDTgkQTuvXA “Mike Elgan – Google+ – Facebook abuses users, lies for money. A giant ad took…”

A REAL Facebook privacy issue: Email addresses NOT listed on Facebook are getting indexed by Google
[Cory Watilo][link]: >So what’s happening here? Well, Facebook’s “Opt out of emails from Facebook” page is getting indexed by Google. That means that the email address that Facebook shows you on the page is also indexed. Meaning it is spam-harvester heaven. The hits just keep on coming. [link]: http://corywatilo.com/a-real-facebook-privacy-issue-email-addresses “A REAL Facebook privacy issue: Email […]...
Facebook Launches XMPP Support for Facebook Chat
[Meaning you can add it to your dedicated chat client of choice][link]. The official site has instructions for Pidgin, Adium, iChat, and the ever-popular “Other.” I think my friend [Shawn Medero][shawn] has the right attitude, “we’ll see how much I hate this.” [link]: http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php “Facebook | Facebook Chat. Everywhere.” [shawn]: http://shawn.medero.com “Shawn Medero”...
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
[Financial terms not disclosed, as usual][link]. The acquisition makes sense as Facebook has basically spent the last 6 months trying to emulate FriendFeed and Twitter. [link]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfeed/ “Facebook Acquires FriendFeed”...

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