Techdirt wrote about a cyberbullying case last year where a group of students in New York created a private Facebook group which was used to make fun of another student. This student filed suit against Facebook and the parents of the other bullying students. Techdirt writes that “the judge has now dismissed both claims, noting [...]

In December 2009 I wrote a positive text in my Swedish blog about the Norska Forbrukerrådet (Norwegian Consumer Council) and their decision to write a report and demand answers from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority on the role of social networking sites in relation to personal integrity. I ended the post with the words: Detta [...]

I should have posted this last week but things happened. Anyway Danah Boyd’s Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant) is an excellent contribution to the Facebook integrity discussion. In particular I like… What pisses me off the most are the numbers of people who feel trapped. Not because they don’t have another choice. (Technically, they [...]

Mark Zuckerberg the the 25 year old founder and chief executive of Facebook says that privacy is no longer a social norm (eweekeurope): …that people no longer have an expectation of privacy thanks to increasing uptake of social networking. Speaking at the Crunchie Awards in San Francisco this weekend, the 25 year-old web entrepreneur said: [...]

One more for the “how dumb can you get” section. A house burglar would not have been caught but he used the victims computer to check his facebook profile and forgot to log out. Reported in The Journal.

It was obviously just a matter of time before it would happen. The only question is what took it so long. The Guardian reports that a teenager was jailed for bullying on Facebook: A teenager who posted death threats on Facebook has become the first person in Britain to be jailed for bullying on a [...]

A man has been convicted for murdering his wife after she changed her Facebook marital status from “Married to Single” (BBC). Technollama argues that Facebook needs to come with a better disclaimer and suggests: “This website can cause long-term damage to your relationship; put you in contact with people you would rather forget; destroy the [...]

In my last post I wrote Big numbers are of no practical use. They are mental popcorn, in the end unfulfilling. Unfortunately I kind of like popcorn, especially when it comes in big packages. So naturally when I read Nicholas Carr’s blog about the amount of images on Facebook I realised that this mental popcorn [...]

In a study carried out at the University of Georgia the relationship between Facebook and narcissism has been studied. The study suggests that online social networking sites such as Facebook might be useful tools for detecting whether someone is a narcissist. “We found that people who are narcissistic use Facebook in a self-promoting way that [...]

There is a growing trend in Facebook bashing (a type of conservatism claiming that the original versions of Facebook were best), Facebook criticism (Facebook would be better if only one detail or another were changed), Facebook denial (Facebook is never going to be useful/important/worthwhile), Facebook disbelivers (what is Facebook good for) and anti-Facebook purists (Never [...]

A British psychiatrist addressing the Royal College of Psychiatrists states that Facebook can increase the likelihood that teenagers will kill themselves It may be possible that young people who have no experience of a world without online societies put less value on their real world identities and can therefore be at risk in their real [...]