Privacy advocates who are in the habit of protesting Facebook’s policies may owe the social network an apology. When an airline subpoenaed a user’s data, and even after fines were later levied, Facebook refused to hand anything over.
Facebook Adds Tagging from the Status Update
Update: The feature is now appears to be live for many users.
Original Article: Facebook announced a new feature today, which allows users to tag their friends in their status updates and other posts from the publisher. Previously, you could only tag friends in photos, videos, and notes.
Facebook Creeping In on LinkedIn’s Territory?
According to comScore, one of the fastest growing online categories over the past year has been Job Search. This is not surprising news by any means.
Facebook Shows a Glimpse of Twitterness
Update: Facebook Lite is available in the US and India now. It can be found at lite.facebook.com.
Original Article: Facebook confused some users when it accidentally invited too many people to a beta test of what is being referred to as "Facebook Lite." Facebook Lite is basically a stripped down verson of the social network, which includes just status updates, likes, and comments, without things like activity stories, app stories, and embedded content.
Data Suggests the ‘Connect Program’ was the Reason Behind Facebook’s Surge
In case you missed it, Facebook is pretty popular. As of June 2008, they’d beat MySpace in terms of total unique visitors worldwide (ballooning to twice as many uniques as MySpace in January 2009)—and even in the US, one of the few Facebook-is-#2 holdouts, Facebook has caught up to MySpace.
Facebook in the News for Several Reasons
As you may know, Facebook surpassed MySpace in traffic a while back. New data from Hitwise indicates that the launch of Facebook Connect likely played a major role in this.
The following graph shows a major increase in market share of social networking visits starting with the time when Facebook Connect was launched:
Study Suggests Facebook Better for the Brain Than Twitter
Results from a recent study indicate that Facebook may actually be good for your brain, while services like Twitter and YouTube may not be, at least when it comes to the part of the brain that deals with memory.
Facebook Pages to Get Click Through Rates
If you are the owner or an admin of a Facebook page, you are probably familiar with Facebook’s Insights. This is Facebook’s analytical offering that lets page admins see how fans are engaging.
Facebook Hogging The Internet
Facebook has a lot going for it lately.
Facebook Testing New Type of Ad
Facebook is now testing a new kind of engagement ad. Justin Smith of Inside Facebook found an ad for Chik-fil-A, which requires the user to fill out a form in order to get a free sample.
Smith says the new format is "the most integrated leadgen-style home page ad unit we’ve seen Facebook launch."