“When a Facebook User Likes a Page on Facebook, she engages in speech protected by the First Amendment.”1 That’s what Facebook has to say about the “like” option which is the only source of expressing your agreement with the comment, photo or a link posted, other than commenting separately altogether. Whether it’s ‘communicative imagery’ or ‘core speech’ or both? Can clicking ‘like’ result in losing your job? Well, that’s what makes things interesting.
In this case2, Plaintiff Daniel Ray Carter, Jr. alleges that Defendant B.J. Roberts, the elected Sheriff of Hampton, Virginia, fired him from his position as deputy sheriff because he Liked the Facebook campaign Page of Roberts’s challenger, Mr. Jim Adams, in the 2009 election, and that his firing violated his rights under the First Amendment. So, does clicking ‘like’ actually amount to saying something in affirmative as amount to speech under the constitutional protection?
Facebook has been testing the "Pay to promote" feature on "Pages" for some time now, this feature has now been rolled out to some personal accounts as well.
As you can see in the images posted below Facebook prompted me to promote an "birthday wish" personal message by paying for it, paying to promote an post results in higher placement of item in newspost ensuring greater visibility. It seems facebook has now started to "LIKE" your wallets, hope they do not push the envelope too far.
Rumors are all around the tech-world that "Facebook Phone" is eminent, here is an funny render from "Sean Percival" on twitter. Click "Read more" for full-image.
Facebook seems to be once again tweaking the "Profile" layout, while retaining the overall "Facebook Timeline" some users caught the new layout design in testing.
Full image of the new Facebook Timeline layout posted below.
Facebook has unveiled there new mobile app for Apple iOS, the dedicated camera application "Facebook Camera" allows fast and easy sharing of photos on Facebook. The new application provides ability to post a selective group of photos at once, check friends latest photos at one place, simple image editing tasks with crops and filters, ability to tag friends and add captions.
Facebook popularity has also attracted quite a lot of unwanted security threats, from Facebook login stealer's to all kinds of spammers, scammers and many other privacy and security threats. To control the situation Facebook has now teamed up with several leading antivirus software companies to launch an computer security awareness campaign and is also offering all users a free six month trial for Norton Antivirus, McAfee Internet Security, Microsoft Security Essentials, Trend Micro Internet Security and Sophos Antivirus For Mac.
Facebook Apps are definitely a great utility but some of them really get on your nerves, one such Facebook application is "Social Reader". Every time you click on an article link associated with this app to read the article, you are required to grant this app possible privacy invasive permissions to proceed with access to the article. Now if you dont want to do this the "Facebook Unsocial Reader" Google Chrome Extension is the solution to bypass this app install prompt and read the article directly.
The new Facebook Timeline feature permits a lot of creative potential thanks to the new covers images, here is an brilliant use of the feature to spread the anti-drug message.
A new feature of the timeline profile design is the ability to upload big-banner sized "Cover Images", here are some of the best websites to get cool facebook cover banner designs and customize them making you stand out of the crowd.
If the newly introduced "Facebook Timeline" feature is not your cup-of-tea, there is no official way to get rid of it. However, thanks to the nifty hack shared ahead "Facebook" users can still revert-back to the old Facebook profile look.
“When a Facebook User Likes a Page on Facebook, she engages in speech protected by the First Amendment.”1 That’s what Facebook has to say about the “like” option which is the only source of expressing your agreement with the comment, photo or a link posted, other than commenting separately altogether. Whether it’s ‘communicative imagery’ or ‘core speech’ or both? Can clicking ‘like’ result in losing your job? Well, that’s what makes things interesting.
Facebook has unveiled there new mobile app for Apple iOS, the dedicated camera application "Facebook Camera" allows fast and easy sharing of photos on Facebook. The new application provides ability to post a selective group of photos at once, check friends latest photos at one place, simple image editing tasks with crops and filters, ability to tag friends and add captions.
Facebook popularity has also attracted quite a lot of unwanted security threats, from Facebook login stealer's to all kinds of spammers, scammers and many other privacy and security threats. To control the situation Facebook has now teamed up with several leading antivirus software companies to launch an computer security awareness campaign and is also offering all users a free six month trial for Norton Antivirus, McAfee Internet Security, Microsoft Security Essentials, Trend Micro Internet Security and Sophos Antivirus For Mac.
If the newly introduced "