Internet Safety

Facebook Privacy Issues Many argue that Facebook and the fun games and applications involved are actually information gathering schemes that are looking to simply document all of your personal interests and information and sell it to the highest bidder.  Because Facebook makes almost all of its revenue from advertising, this argument holds some water.  However, [...]

Facebook Safety Advice For all of the great applications involved in social networking websites, there are some dark undertones that if not considered, can deliver horrific results.  Just about everyone has a Facebook page, therefore there’s a wealth of information floating around that strangers can view if privacy settings aren’t utilized.  For parents, requiring your [...]

Of course it’s great chatting with your friends about the party last weekend, but it’s all fun and games until somebody gets their feelings hurt, right?  Facebook has done a great job with keeping people in touch with each other, and their “Groups” application, they are offering some privacy for those conversations that simply aren’t [...]

Facebook has 600 million users worldwide, and literally became an overnight success.  The concept took shape on campus at Harvard University in 2004, after the site’s designer, Mark Zuckerberg came up with an idea.  He had experimented with a simple program that pitted photographs of two campus students together for members to decide who was [...]