AVG: Seven in ten teens don't know all their 'friends' on Facebook

Security firm AVG has published a new report looking at online privacy which shows the considerable amount of regret admitted by some teenagers when it comes to things they have posted online -- and the fact that seven in ten teens don’t know everyone they have befriended on social media. The Digital Diaries research, which quizzed some 4,000 teenagers aged between 11 and 16 -- not that those under 13 are technically teenagers, but we’ll let that slide -- found that 28 percent of teens said they later regretted posting something online. A third of teens had asked somebody to… [Continue Reading] Continue reading at 'Betanews'

[ Betanews | 2014-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Boot up: Facebook self-censorship, Tufte in brief, developer intention, and more

Plus TV arbitrage, Canada investigates Google over antitrust, ARM server maker shuts, and moreA burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamFacebook self-censorship: what happens to the posts you don't publish? >> SlateWe spend a lot of time thinking about what... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Usborne acquires debut teen mystery

Usborne has acquired the rights to My Second Life, a teen mystery from debut author Faye Bird.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Like This if You Like Pandas! Facebook Says Publishers Shouldn't Fret About News Feed Changes.

The guy who runs Facebook's most valuable real estate explains why the company just changed its rules. Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2013-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Admits Organic Reach Is Falling Short, Urges Marketers to Buy Ads

Facebook is being more blunt about the fact that marketers are going to have to pay for reach.If they haven't already, many marketers will soon see the organic reach of their posts on the social network drop off, and this time Facebook is acknowledging it. In a sales deck obtained by Ad Age that... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2013-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why Facebook Is Wooing Publishers

Facebook says it wants to continue sending traffic to publishers, citing how news stories perform well in the News Feed. Facebook said it would start showing more links to news stories in particular to mobile users. And it would begin resurfacing articles in News Feeds that have attracted... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2013-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Facebook Tweak Gives Publishers a Traffic Boost

Facebook has altered its newsfeed algorithm, which is turning out to be great news for online publishers. Major sites say the social network has driven more referrals in the past month than ever before.The post A Facebook Tweak Gives Publishers a Traffic Boost appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan relaunches online teen platform

Macmillan celebrated the relaunch of MyKindaBook.com, an online platform for teen and YA books,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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EU Privacy Proposal Could Limit Data Use by Google, Facebook

The European Commission's call today for stronger data privacy protections could help the web's biggest data collectors like Google and Facebook fight data requests from the U.S. government.As expected, the Commission published a collection of recommendations for stronger data protections,... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Finger-friendly laptops aren't touching a chord with notebook buyers

If skyrocketing tablet sales and cute videos of babies that confuse magazines for iPads are any indication, touchscreens are the interface of the future. But there's just one problem with that portentous prediction: If it's true, laptop buyers are stuck with one foot in the past. The market... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2013-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Drives Massive New Surge Of Traffic To Publishers

Facebook has sent unprecedented levels of traffic to publishers across the internet in recent months, a dramatic and unexpected increase affecting a large range of sites serving a wide variety of content. According to data from the BuzzFeed Networ ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon and Facebook: Family members speak out

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's wife MacKenzie defends Bezos and Amazon, while Facebook CEO Mark Zuckberg's sister Randi expresses ambivalence about social media. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Teen's '50s etiquette inspires film deal

A 1950s 'glamour guide for teens' has helped a 15-year-old girl earn a $300,000 book deal, as well as a Steven Spielberg movie deal.     Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald

[ The Sydney Morning Herald | 2013-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Teen's '50s etiquette inspires film

A 1950s 'glamour guide for teens' has helped a 15-year-old girl earn a $300,000 book deal, as well as a Steven Spielberg movie deal.     Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald

[ The Sydney Morning Herald | 2013-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Instagram Rolls Out In-Stream Ads As Facebook Seeks to Boost Mobile Revenue

Instagram's cautious roll-out of its in-stream ads is now underway.U.S. users who open the app in the coming week will see an "educational ad" from Instagram itself, according to a blog post. Confirmed advertisers to follow it are Adidas, Ben & Jerry's, Burberry, General Electric, Levi's,... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2013-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Romania’s ReadForward Angles to Be “Facebook for Education”

Bucharest-based developer Read Forward has produced original ebooks, luxury digital editions of classics and is now moving into education, with fully interactive HTML5 textbooks. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook CSO says Snowden disclosures brought security to forefront

Facebook was already implementing stronger security controls when the U.S. National Security Agency’s expansive surveillance program was revealed in June, its chief security officer said Thursday. The social networking site has continued upgrading its security infrastructure, said Joe... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Official Facebook app (finally!) available for Windows 8.1 users

For all the improvements Microsoft has made in bolstering the Windows Store's app selection, one insistent question has held back the company's dreams of grandeur: "Yeah, but where's Facebook?" Indeed, the largest social network in the land has been a conspicuous no-show in Microsoft app... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fortune's Most Powerful Women List Has Lots of Tech Stars, With She-Can-Do-Anything Spotlight on Facebook's Sandberg

I say we scramble all the private jets in Silicon Valley and get the "Lean In" book star to D.C. to lean on some pols to open the government again, tout de suite! Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2013-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bilton Twitter Book -- Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Almost Went to Facebook (And More!)

An excerpt from a forthcoming book on the birth of Twitter reveals surprising new details about the company's founders. Some not-so-pretty. Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2013-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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