
Perhaps teachers ought to use Facebook only to stay in touch with friends and family, not students.

Perhaps teachers ought to use Facebook only to stay in touch with friends and family, not students.
One of the features found in Google Plus, the company’s new social networking product, is photo tagging. It’s a feature that Facebook was awarded a patent for just a couple of months ago. So will the social network send a cease-and-desist letter to the search giant?

As Facebook users acclimate themselves to the recent addition of the ability to tag pages in photos and the upgrade to visual recognition, we ponder the question: Why do we like tagging so much?
While you may find getting tagged in a photo of when you were drunk last night annoying, Facebook thinks such methods are worth protecting, which is why they filed and received approval of a patent for it.

You can now tag photos with the names of pages in addition to any of your friends who haven’t opted out of this feature in their security settings.

If you haven’t opted out of photo tagging suggestions on Facebook, this article will make you want to: Photos have become the newest way for malware and spam propagators to distribute their nastiness.

Every company has rules to follow when launching new features and Facebook is no exception. But as the company grows in size there’s one rule it hasn’t yet implemented that it definitely should: no features should result in the addition of privacy controls.
Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s page remains hidden after yesterday’s alleged hack, and today the site has announced the replacement of captcha with social authentication, a series of questions requiring identification of one’s friends in pictures.

Facebook has enhanced its auto-suggest and tagging feature so that the @ key is no longer required.
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Many Facebook users will be relieved to know that the ability to hyperlink to names and pages in status updates will return shortly.
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