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How to deal with unwanted friend requests, the ethics of de-friending, and other social networking etiquette predicaments.
What should you do when someone you don't like or don't know sends you a friend request?
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Facebook has  launched a beta website version of an open  Data Store API  program that offers a  data storage service to developers.
The page is still in development so users should make back-ups of their work.

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Geneticists have long used Drosophila melanogaster (a.k.a the fruit fly) for their experiments to see how mutations affect future generations. The fruit fly is inexpensive, has a short life span and multiplies rapidly.
In many ways, FaceBook has become the fruit fly for application developers. It provides an environment where a developer can quickly implement a new application and launch it to 30 millions prospective users.

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Thousands of people have joined a campaign to remove racist images and postings from Facebook. One group on Facebook, shows a photograph of people dressed as Ku Klux Klan members.

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Damn the Facebooks and the MySpaces. The last time we checked, there was this thing called the internet that had 6 billion users. It's time to take our personal data out of Mr. McGregor's little gardens and put it back where it belongs -- free and open on the open web.
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Social networking Web sites are increasingly juicy targets for computer hackers, who are demonstrating a pair of vulnerabilities they claim expose sensitive personal information and could be exploited by online criminals.
The flaws are being demonstrated this week at the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences, which draw thousands of people to Las Vegas each year for five days of training and demonstrations of the latest exploits.

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Facebook Is NOT For Business
Facebooks closed platform and data lock-in are coming under seige from Dave Winer and others. Its time to call another Facebook foul the notion that Facebook is suddenly a killer app for business that will unseat LinkedIn, simply because Facebook opened its doors to everyone.

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Facebook: What's In It For Journalists?

About a week ago, my editor and I started a Facebook group.
We had been reading a lot about Facebook, mostly about how "old" people had launched an invasion on the site. My editor, Bill Mitchell, is 58, by no means old, but surely long past his college years. He friended me at the beginning of the month.
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Facebook, one has to admit is a great time sink. Given how much you have to do to just manage your Facebook life, it is hardly a surprise; some organizations are taking a draconian approach to them. Jason Calacanis has declared Facebook bankruptcy. What is prompting such extreme reactions?
Bankruptcies often come as a result of excess and poor management. That sadly seems to be the case, for those who are getting fed up with Facebook. And the truth of the matter is that we are to blame.
We are not using the privacy settings of Facebook, and are too polite to say no to invitations from people who want to friend us. No wonder, the social environment is starting to resemble a crowded nightclub. (You go to clubs to be seen, not talk.)

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Networking website Facebook is supposed to improve your social life. But it emerged that "Facebooking" can also seriously damage your career.
More than two thirds of employers are banning or restricting the use of Facebook and similar sites over fears that staff are wasting time on them when they should be working, a survey found.
Several companies have also warned employees that accessing the site during office hours is a sackable offence.
More than 70 per cent of businesses, including banks and law firms, have barred the sites.

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