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Facebook cited in 30% of UK divorces

Facebook is a social network, but it can also be a tool fierce in the context of a separation or divorce. According to the British site Divorce Online, the portal of Mark Zuckerberg is quoted as incriminating evidence in 30% of divorces in 2011, against 20% in 2010. The study includes no fewer than 5,000 applications for divorce. “It has become like a third person in the business” fun Emma Patel,...

Yahoo is expanding its ties with Facebook

SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo is expanding its relationship with the networking site Facebook. The company announced Tuesday that it would allow Facebook users to share more of their activities on the sites of Yahoo, including new they look. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) introduced the option to share on Facebook in the main section three months ago. The same function will now be available in 26 other sections of the universe...

Facebook sets up an anti-suicide …

Today Facebook launched a system to prevent suicides in the United States. The person in distress can chat with a counselor. The system is based on the reporting of suicidal behavior by his friends. Once one of them spots a suspicious comment, a button near it can be reported. Facebook will send a message to the author of the comment, encouraging them to call a hotline or a confidential chat. “Science shows...

Bug on Facebook: private photos of Mark Zuckerberg unveiled

Protecting privacy is a real problem on Facebook. Internet users often complain about. This time, even the creator of Facebook should complain. Following a security bug, private photos of Mark Zuckerberg have been unveiled. Facebook has acknowledged the bug and said the correcting on Tuesday. Bug? The tool for reporting inappropriate pictures made ​​some private photos visible to anyone, not even be friends with...

Facebook monitors 51% of online purchases

A recently published study by the firm Sociable Labs shows that 51% of online purchases are made not of users who are connected to Facebook at the time of purchase. This allows the social network to collect an additional data on these users about their shopping habits. More than half of online shoppers are also connected to Facebook when making a purchase. Most commonly, it is thanks to Facebook Connect, which...

Facebook: mobile phone with the code name of Buffy

Facebook will have its good social phone. The network has chosen HTC to build the Facebook Phone for now named Buffy. AllThingsD is the technology blog of the Wall Street Journal, who says Facebook could eventually abandoned Samsung and HTC chose to build a phone that will be marketed under its own brand. The manufacturer to incorporate a modified version of Android in depth to enable the integration features of the...

PayPal money transfer now possible on Facebook

Facebook continues to diversify. The social network with 800 million users has offered the services of PayPal, the online payment site owned by an eBay company. This will allow registrants to exchange money with friends, with an application called “Send Money” integrated with Facebook.. Free, available only in the United States. “We are the world’s largest online payment on the world’s...

Facebook: more than friends, “trusted friends”

Facebook unveiled a new tool for the social network. Entitled “Trusted Friends“, it allows to generate passwords backup for close friends, in the case of a stolen account, for example. In development, Trusted Friends offers the possibility to choose between three and five friends on Facebook to assign a randomly generated password. . No blind trust. Thus, when the account is hijacked by stealing...

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