Facebook tracks what you do online even when you’re logged out
Canberra, An Australian technologist has claimed that Facebook can track the web pages you visit, even when you are logged out of the social networking giant.
According to Wollongong-based Nik Cubrilovic, when the user is logged out of Facebook, rather than deleting its tracking cookies, the site merely modifies them, maintaining account information and other unique tokens that can be used to identify its users.
This simply means that any time you visit a web page with a Facebook button or widget, your browser is still sending personally identifiable information back to Facebook.
“Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit,” Cubrilovic wrote in a blog post.
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Facebook introduces new applications
Washington, Social media giant Facebook has came out with a slew of new applications intended to provide its more than 800 million users with more options for sharing music, videos, news and personal information online.
Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg introduced the new application, Timeline.
It is intended to be a virtual magazine like a scrapbook of all the photographs, videos and updates of activities in a chronological order from present till the person’s date of birth, according to Facebook’s official webcast.
“We wanted to make Timeline a place that you could feel proud to call your home,” Zuckerberg said in the annual F8 conference held in San Francisco Thursday.
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Social networking teens may turn drinks, drugs addicted
London, Aug 26 Teenagers using social networking sites like Facebook are risking themselves to end up being addicted to drink and drugs, researchers have found.
Scientists at the National Centre on Addiction and Substance Abuse (Casa) at Columbia University, surveyed over 1,000 children aged between 12 and 17 via an online poll and another 1,000 by telephone, Daily Mail reported.
It was observed teenagers spending any time on social networks daily were five times as likely to smoke than those who didn’t visit such sites. They were also three times more likely to drink alcohol and had double the chance of smoking cannabis.
The nationally-representative survey indicated that peer pressure was playing a major role, with 40 percent of the teenagers seeing pictures of friends getting drunk on sites like Facebook and MySpace.
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