Today the Wall Street Journal reported that "many of the most popular applications, or 'apps,' on Facebook have been transmitting users’ Facebook ID numbers to marketers and tracking companies." It focused on Facebook, but then explained that the privacy breach it was reporting on is a phenomenon as old as Web links that has become a problem with the advent of social networking in general. The … [Read more...] about Wall Street Journal: Privacy breach with Facebook apps
Archives for October 2010
A window onto family Facebook use: TRUSTe study
Eighty percent of US parents of teens have a social networking account; of those parents, 95% have Facebook accounts; and of that 95%, the vast majority (86%) are friends with their teens in Facebook. Interestingly, in those households where both a parent and a teen have Facebook accounts, more than a third of the teens said they got their parent to join Facebook," reports TRUSTe, which … [Read more...] about A window onto family Facebook use: TRUSTe study
Top tech gadgets for Americans 18+: Study
Americans definitely like their technology mobile. Cellphones are the US's most popular gadget, according to a just-released study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, with 85% of Americans 18+ and 75% of US teens owning one. Among all the gadgets covered in the Pew survey, the desktop computer was the only non-mobile one. It came in second, with 59% of US adults owning one, but with … [Read more...] about Top tech gadgets for Americans 18+: Study
Connecting ‘real world’ tech with school tech
George Lucas the film producer is waiting for school reform too. "Twenty years ago when we started The George Lucas Educational Foundation, we thought it would be 10 years before the general public would understand that the education system was in serious need of fixing," he wrote this week in a commentary in Edutopia.org, the Foundation's Web site. Besides his point about how we need to be … [Read more...] about Connecting ‘real world’ tech with school tech
Parents, you’re not just focusing on FB, right?
It's great that parents are getting the message that they can monitor their kids on Facebook by joining it, but they also need to remember that Facebook isn't the all of teen online socializing (even though it's in the news a lot!). It's just the big social utility that aggregates basically "everybody" in teens' real-world school and social lives. But there's plenty more social activity happening … [Read more...] about Parents, you’re not just focusing on FB, right?