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Facebook Status Foils Military Raid

Stephan Iscoe — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:49:12 +0000

enemy intelligence scans the Internet in search of pieces of information… information that could sabotage operations and endanger our forces.

Plans for an army raid had to be scuttled after a soldier posted a Facebook status that detailed the unit’s plans.

“On Wednesday, we are cleaning out [ed. deleted the name of the town] – today an arrest operation, tomorrow an arrest operation and then, please God, home by Thursday”

News tip from Slate, read the full story here.

10,000 Facebook Advertisers Will Be Good For You

Stephan Iscoe — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:54:51 +0000

Facebook partners with Nielsen to poll You! Purpose is to prove that display ads on Facebook really work, says Facebook CEO. (Social networking sites account for more than 20% of display ads viewed online)

[read more at Media Buyer Planner...]

Newsflash: Parents Mostly Clueless!

Stephan Iscoe — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:23:20 +0000

Special ‘Duh!’ Report -

Parents have a lot to learn when it comes to their children’s behaviors online, the research found. In addition to significantly underestimating the amount of time their teens spend checking in on social networking sites, nearly half of parents (49%) say their child was age 13 or older before starting unsupervised surfing. This compares with just 14% of teens who say they actually waited this long.

Quoted in Marketing Charts, a study by Common Sense Media found that the parents of teens greatly underestimate their teens’ involvement with social networks.

Some teens also are attempting to keep their social networking businesses secret from their parents. 12% of teens with Facebook or MySpace pages say their parents don’t know about the account, 28% have shared information they would not normally share in public (16%of parents think their children have) and 13% have posted naked or semi-naked images of themselves (only 2% of parents think their children have).

You Are Being Watched – Really

Stephan Iscoe — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:04:08 +0000

A report in the New York Times reveals that at least two media companies are tracking the connections between Facebook Friends – all the better to serve up targeted marketing to the friends of folks who are already customers.

33Across and Media6Degrees, are analyzing such connections, and they are not interested in basic friend lists, but in interactions on the sites, taking note when a user visits a friend’s page, sends a video or exchanges an instant message. In turn, they can identify people who are friends with a company’s existing customers, and then advertise to them…
According to Eric Wheeler, the chief executive of 33Across, instead of understanding all these things about people, you could understand who was connected to who – “the reality is, those people are very similar not only in socioeconomic terms, but in terms of what they click and buy, so it’s very valuable.”

Facebook Status Fails

Stephan Iscoe — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:38:03 +0000

Facebook has over 175 million active users.
Why?
Here’s a random sample of recent Facebook Status Updates…the kind I can live happily without:

I am having a catalog party to earn some free jewelry for my upcoming birthday this month! You are invited! Contact me for your link to shop! :0) Dana
Happy Monday to YOU
99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses
WOW! ALREADY? Day 27 of 50 SPRING HEALTHY CHALLENGE. You can always JOIN US! Add your success updates on the daily Wall Post!
10 things you might not know about eggs
$19.95 plus shipping and handling could make you a Millionaire
made it to 1,000 facebook friends!! Thanks everyone you’re the BEST!
RT @pixum #FollowFriday @blackberrypros @kexadur @alexlinebrink @Koufie @KenLittle @DFS_Ellen @PublishingGurus @DEFgraphics @payshel.
okay Ladies – Who here wears Mineral Makeup? I have been using this NEW brand for a couple of monhts and LOVE IT!!!
How to build a 3,000 member Friend list in 30 days.

Next time I’ll post a few truly interesting and useful facebook updates….yeah, right

Stephan is abandoning his 11,027 Facebook Friends to their fates

Microsoft Buys Facebook, Promises Improved User Interface

Stephan Iscoe — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:57 +0000

[for release on 04-01-09]

News of Microsoft’s purchase of Facebook for an undisclosed sum rocked the online community today.
The blog-o-sphere has been all a-twitter for weeks on speculation that Rupert Murdoch was seeking additional financing to offer a premium stock swap plus cash for shares of Facebook.
Facebook users have already started 1,876 groups to protest the sale, threatening to take their profiles en mass to eHarmony.