Facebook News Summary - Issue #10

Posted by Jon Beattie March 13th, 2008

Do You Friend Your Dad On Facebook?

This is a great story from the Washington Post on what happens when your parents ask to be your friend on Facebook. The “No Parents On Facebook” Group is getting lots of members.
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Facebook - Making Cheating Easy Since 2004

This guy is probably getting expelled from University for being the administrator of a study group on Facebook that has been used to cheat on their course.

Beacon - Worse Than Ever

This blogger reckons the notorious Facebook Beacon service now not even telling users that the content in your newsfeed is an ad.
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Zuckerberg In a “Train Wreck” at SXSW

An interview with Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, was the keynote at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW). However, it didn’t go as planned with crowd heckling and eventually taking over the questions. The interviewer, journalist Sarah Lacy, was not impressed and used the power of Twitter to let the crowd know what she thought of their attitude; “Seriously screw all you guys…”. Geeks are scary when they are in crowds. Watch the video if you want to see it for yourself.
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Blood Donations on Facebook

Feeling a little empty from all your poking and sheep throwing. Now you can install a Facebook App that actually has a useful social responsible purpose.
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Facebook Poach Google Exec

Sheryl Sandberg, VP of Global Online Sales & Operations at Google, is leaving to be the new COO at Facebook.
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French Facebook is Live

Continuing their international strategy, Facebook is now live in French.
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