Hacker News
- Friend of a Friend: The Facebook That Could Have Been https://twobithistory.org/2020/01/05/foaf.html 58 comments
- Could a Bank Deny Your Loan Based on Your Facebook Friends? http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/facebooks-new-patent-and-digital-redlining/407287/?single_page=true 71 comments
- Facebook friends could change your credit score http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/26/technology/social/facebook-credit-score/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 129 comments
Lobsters
- Friend of a Friend: The Facebook That Could Have Been https://twobithistory.org/2020/01/05/foaf.html 12 comments culture , web
- Facebook Is Using Your Phone's Location to Suggest New Friends—which Could Be a Privacy Disaster http://fusion.net/story/319108/facebook-phone-location-friend-suggestions/ 17 comments privacy
- Facebook Friends: How Close Are Mark Zuckerberg and Pete Buttigieg Really? - The answer could have long-term consequences for both wunderkinds. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/29/facebook-friends-zuckerberg-buttigieg-118245 9 comments politics
- Canadian Government Poised to Go Web 2.0 - Could Be Your Next Friend On Facebook http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/419845 2 comments reddit.com
- Found this post from 2016 on Facebook, Friend re-shared it. The University of Karachi has mandated a list of Haram Jobs in Islam. Wish I could put this under satire, but it's the university's official page. https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=398990310225089&id=172178402906282 75 comments pakistan
- The Trump administration has begun inserting legal protections into recent trade agreements that shield online platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube from lawsuits, a move that could help lock in America’s tech-friendly regulations around the world even as they are being questioned at home https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/business/tech-shield-trade-deals.html?action=click&module=top%20stories&pgtype=homepage 8 comments technology
- Facebook is using your phone’s location to suggest new friends—which could be a privacy disaster http://fusion.net/story/319108/facebook-phone-location-friend-suggestions/ 8 comments business
- Facebook is using phone location to suggest new friends - could be a privacy disaster http://fusion.net/story/319108/facebook-phone-location-friend-suggestions/ 10 comments privacy
- Facebook Could Check Your Loan Applications Against Your Friends' Credit http://www.popsci.com/facebook-granted-patent-check-loans-against-friends-credit 38 comments technology
- Facebook Could Check Your Loan Applications Against Your Friends' Credit http://www.wipinews.com/2015/08/facebook-could-check-your-loan.html#.vcvolojcmv4.reddit 5 comments technology
- College football player gets kicked off University of Oregon team for saying on Facebook that he wishes he could block white people as friends http://trueslant.com/kashmirhill/2010/02/22/ex-university-of-oregon-football-player-jamere-holland-unapologetic-about-his-facebook-posting/ 9 comments sports
- Facebook Totally Screwed with a Bunch of People in the Name of Science - If you feel down on Facebook, it could have a lot to do with what your friends are posting http://time.com/2936729/facebook-emotions-study/ 71 comments cogsci
- Android phone started scrolling through Facebook randomly. Camera opened. Drop menu opened. Could be potentiol ex hacker friend. https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/a46ofk/android_phone_started_scrolling_through_facebook/ 6 comments techsupport
- Facebook is using phone location data to suggest new friends--which could be a privacy disaster http://fusion.net/story/319108/facebook-phone-location-friend-suggestions/ 176 comments technology
- Using data from the social network Facebook, MIT researchers made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/project_gaydar_an_mit_experiment_raises_new_questions_about_online_privacy/?page=full 17 comments science
- Last week my wife and I told our 13-year-old daughter she could join Facebook. Within a few hours she had accumulated 171 friends, and I felt a little as if I had passed my child a pipe of crystal meth. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/magazine/the-twitter-trap.html?ref=technology 58 comments technology
- The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the US anti-hacking law, could criminalize lying about your age on Facebook, lying about your appearance on Craigslist, letting a friend log in to your Pandora account, or sending a sexy message on eHarmony https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/rebooting-computer-crime-law-part-1-no-prison-time-for-violating-terms-of-service?rss=1 31 comments politics
- The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the US anti-hacking law, could criminalize lying about your age on Facebook, lying about your appearance on Craigslist, letting a friend log in to your Pandora account, or sending a sexy message on eHarmony https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/rebooting-computer-crime-law-part-1-no-prison-time-for-violating-terms-of-service?rss=1 83 comments technology
- The Making Of Diaspora --- Four young coders are trying to change social media forever. Their vision? Users set a preferred networking provider but can still interact with friends using other services. Could this "federated social web" destroy Facebook? http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/the-making-of-diaspora/0 117 comments business