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Facebook Users Seeing Unanswered Friend Requests In Notifications Area Of News Feed

David Cohen — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:00:52 +0000

Some Facebook users are seeing friend requests that they have not yet responded to appear in the notifications area of their News Feeds, right under birthdays and events.

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There Is No Such Thing As ‘Face Book Jail’

David Cohen — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:33:04 +0000

One of the latest hoaxes to make its way around Facebook is a warning that “nice people are getting banned from Facebook” and being sent to “Face Book Jail” for sending friend requests.

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Facebook: A Family Affair

David Cohen — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:59:13 +0000

If your children are in their early to mid-20s, don’t hold your breath waiting for Facebook friend requests from them. That was just one nugget of information from the Facebook Data Science Team, which analyzed posts on the social network that were anonymized and processed automatically by users who identified themselves as parents or children to get a better sense of how families interact with each other on Facebook.

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Facebook User Who Shares Name With Colo. Shooting Suspect Bombarded With Messages, Friend Requests

David Cohen — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:30:26 +0000

A Littleton, Colo., Facebook user was mistakenly caught up in the rush to gather information on the suspect in the tragic shootings in a theater in nearby Aurora, Colo., during a premiere showing of Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises, as the Facebook user had the misfortunate of sharing the suspect’s name and being located nearby.

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BUSTED: Fake Facebook Friend Requests

David Cohen — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:41:16 +0000

Just about every Facebook user has been on the receiving end of friend requests from people they don’t know, and often people who don’t exist.

But one minor addition to my personal information on Facebook led to an onslaught of them earlier this month, with every single profile displaying the same characteristics.

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Facebook Users Receive More Than They Give

Jennifer Moire — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:18:08 +0000

A new study claims that Facebook users take more than they give to their friends through the number of friend requests received, the use of the like button, the number of messages sent, or tagging people in photos.

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Beware: Socialbots Successfully Infiltrate Facebook

David Cohen — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:54:07 +0000

Beware: The socialbots are coming. These fake profiles mimic real people on Facebook but are actually computer programs that try to harvest private data from users, and expose them to other security risks.

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Australian Doctors Told to Stay Off Facebook

Meredith Singer — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:00:32 +0000

The health-care industry is trying to figure out how to apply the doctor-patient relationship online. This has included a warning to Australian doctors about Facebook usage.
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STUDY: Most Doctors Decline 'Friend' Requests From Patients

Meredith Singer — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:40:40 +0000

Would you feel weird if you saw online pictures of your family practitioner doing keg stands in his off-hours?

Physicians are trying to prevent this from happening by denying friend requests from patients, according to a recent study.

Researchers surveyed 202 postgraduate trainee doctors at Rouen University Hospital in France and found that about three out of every four had a Facebook account (no surprises here).

Of those surveyed, 85 percent said they would automatically decline friendship requests from patients, as reported online in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Almost half of those surveyed thought the doctor-patient relationship would be compromised if patients found out their docs were logging onto Facebook, but three out of four said the relationship would only be changed if the patient could access their profile.

You’d think then that the docs would at least lock down their privacy settings, but according to the report, 61 percent claimed to have changed at least one of the default privacy settings, but 17 percent couldn’t remember if they had or not.

Of those surveyed, 98 percent displayed personal information like their real names and birth dates. Ninety-one percent displayed a profile photo, and 59 percent provided info on their current training site.

Only six percent had actually received a friend request from a patient, and only four accepted said request. But the authors suggest friend requests from patients could become more common in the future.

According to Medical News, the authors concluded:

Careful reflection is needed to define better the implications of electronic communication media on the traditional role of doctors and on the new aspects of medical professionalism.

Study authors said doctors need to keep a safe social distance away from their patients to outweigh the fear of embarrassing someone who sought treatment.

This new interaction (whether it is romantic or not) results in an ethically problematic situation because it is unrelated to direct patient care… Moreover public availability of information on a doctor’s private life may threaten the mutual confidence between doctor and patient if the patient accesses information not intended for them.

Do you think hospitals need to put a firm social media policy in place? What would that mean for health care providers?

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