The Click CEOP application, which gives Facebook users a direct link to advice, help and the ability to report suspicious behavior on the site has reached a new milestone. There are amounted to more than 55,000 downloads and this should not obscure the fact that ClickCEOP app is a viable choice for raising the profile [...]...

In an effort to make it easy for the users to control what kind of data to be shared in order for the applications to work, Facebook has made an important change by launching the simplified data-sharing permission. Beginning from July this year, users will get a single dialog box explaining all of the data [...]...

There has been a great deal of discussion across the Web pertaining to the Facebook security issues. Yet, this week Facebook has taken another measurement whereby app developers are required to verify their accounts before they can create new app. According to the developer’s forum thread, the account verification is done either through mobil...

In an effort to help Facebook users finding out whether or not there is a need for us to review our privacy settings, an app called “Privacy Check” has been developed by rabidgremlin.com. To use it is very simple, just log on with your Facebook credentials, you’ll get your privacy score. Apparently, there are three [...]...

I hate when someone is looking/checking my profile and I don’t even know about this!!! But this time, you’re not alone. Likewise, Facebook also hate it, and hence they blocked the applications that offered users a unique feature to see who is viewing their profiles. Simply not because of the emotional feelings of hate, it [...]...

Starting from March 1st this year, Facebook will no longer deliver application notifications and will discontinue support for notifications.send, according to its official Facebook developers blog. In other words, Facebook is set to become a much quiet place, despite the fact that they have more than 400 million users up to-date. Clearly, the loss ...

According to Facebook’s official blog, Facebook has rolled out a wider variety of access levels to the users as they publish any new story to their Walls. Different types of privacy settings has thus be available for the users when they want to post new story or content via the third-party Facebook apps. For instance, [...]...

Some said this year 2010 is the year of spam, as the networking gurus at Cisco predicted that worldwide spam volumes will increase by 30 or 40 percent over 2009 levels; see the PDF report here. Apart from simply reading the report or get ready to the spamming challenges, Facebook has announced that they have [...]...

Keep in mind that if you develop an app that violate the Facebook Terms of Service or create a group that spread false rumors, that app/group will be blocked by Facebook. Most recently, Facebook has blocked few groups / apps, even though the group / app is not a standard money mule scam. 1) The [...]...

I just came across an article that entitled, “Pizza Hut To Spam Facebook Users.” To me, this article is quite interesting, especially it talked about when a user installs the Pizza Hut Facebook application called Pizza Hut Interface, whenever she ordered a pizza from Pizza Hut through this application in Facebook, her friends would get ...