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Interesting research from Fred Stutzman: "By giving "real estate" to Facebook, third party sites have created a one-way mirror, allowing Facebook to peer in on what we're doing. If you're logged in to Facebook, and you visit a third party page with a social plugin, Facebook knows where you've been."

"Facebook will grow their service by allowing people to accrue attention in a way they can't currently in the system. People will realize the same benefits they currently do on Twitter…you can actually start to have an audience that is larger than your current friends list. In other words, this will allow members of Facebook to have a much larger reach than they could before…thus giving Facebook a larger reach as well."

Just what the title says - the author lays out why using Facebook is a bad idea and why you should take the big step and quit Facebook.

"Altimeter Group conducted research, and gleaned input from 34 vendors, agencies, and experts, to determine success criteria and develop a roadmap for Facebook page best practices. We found Eight Success Criteria for Facebook page marketing, and then tested the maturity of 30 top brands across six industries."

Overview of a questionable Facebook app.

commentary on ECAR report - student use of technology - The Unofficial Facebook Blog

Interesting discussion of the differences between Facebook and Twitter, especially among 18-24 group.

"All too frequently, someone makes a comment about how a large number of Facebook Friends must mean a high degree of social capital. Or how we can determine who is closest to who by measuring their email messages. Or that the Dunbar number can explain the average number of Facebook friends. These are just three examples of how people mistakenly assume that 1) any social network that can be boiled down to a graph can be compared and 2) any theory of social networks is transitive to any graph representing connections between people. Such mistaken views result in broad misinterpretations of social networks and social network sites."

From the site: The new head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, is at the centre of a security breach after his wife published family holiday photographs and other personal details on the Facebook website.

Discussion of one website's comparison of group vs. page.

Overview of some uses of Facebook in journalism, by Leah Betancourt, digital community manager at the Star Tribune.

Overview of privacy changes announced by Facebook, May 2010.

How it works, what it means, impacts on the future of the Facebook news feed / live feed split. From RWW.

newsweek overview of facebook

report of a study on use of Facebook

Facebook stats 1Q 2008

Birmingham City University "is to offer a master's degree teaching students about social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Bebo."

Opinion piece on the use of Facebook by faculty. Discusses concerns of privacy and granularity in use of FB by teachers. A bit naive in my opinion but does discuss the issues.

"Facebook's new Places feature lets you share your current location by "checking in" from your smartphone. Whether you never really got into earlier location-based social networking services like Gowalla or Foursquare or just want to know what it is (and how to turn it off), read on for everything you need to know about Facebook Places."

short comedy bit parodies some elements of Facebook.