abcnews.go.com - 1/4/2009
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The Facebook group entitled "For the love of god -- don't let parents join Facebook" has 5,819 high school and college-aged members who want to stop the growing number of parents who are joining Facebook, the massively popular social networking site, from "spying" on them. Many Facebook users ...
blog.facebook.com - 1/7/2009
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blog.facebook.com —
Today, we reached another milestone: 150 million people
around the world are now actively using Facebook and...
almost half of them are using Facebook every day. This includes people in every continent—even Antarctica.
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A Great Start to 2009
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Linkpost | 1.3.2009 | Main January 04, 2009 Linkpost | 1.4.2009 • Windows 7 beta 1 performance - How does the OS compare to Vista and XP? - Even though it's only in beta, Win7 does very well against two "finished" versions of Windows. • Microsoft Readies Cost-Cuts; Though Massive Layoff Unlikely - Instead, Microsoft is likely to rely on attrition and non-renewal of some contract positions. Of course, Microsoft relies heavily on contractors . . . • Top 10 Macworld rumors for 2009 and Apple 17 inch MacBook Pro to go unibody, lose removable battery • Why It's Time for Steve Jobs and Apple to ...
Generation Gap on Facebook: Good or Bad?
Profy —
We often hear complains here and there about the connections between social networks and our real lives and sometimes we even see what looks like real family conflicts with husbands and wives remaining unconnected on Facebook, even when they both have accounts. But now we are facing a new issue of the growing disappointment of a certain portion of Facebook users over having to be on the same network with another portion of users, those happen to be much older.
Here I am talking about the new concern of children who do not want their parents, uncles or aunts to be on the same network they are on as they suspect the ...
Are You Friends With Family Members on Facebook?
GeekSugar —
Forget just dealing with your mom becoming a Facebook junkie; more and more, older people are joining the social network, and of course, they're our grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, great aunts, etc. I don't do too much these days that I'm embarrassed about, but it still gives me pause, posting things I'd want my friends to see and then remembering that I've friended my octogenarian aunt. I'm even a little weirded out being friends with my younger sister — but that's mostly because I don't want to know everything she does!
Still I'll add family members if they send me ...
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