Ello, the anti-Facebook: Ad free, invite-only social network
A new social network promises an ad-free experience and it’s getting a lot of buzz.Think an exclusive Facebook without the invasive ads.
A new social network promises an ad-free experience and it’s getting a lot of buzz.Think an exclusive Facebook without the invasive ads.
Too graphic? That's what Facebook says of a photo featuring a newborn that needs a new heart
NORTH CAROLINA (WITI) -- Too graphic?
NORTH CAROLINA (WITI) -- Too graphic?
Open wide: It's time for your ‘Privacy Checkup’ on Facebook
(WITI) -- Facebook has begun rolling out its “Privacy Checkup” to help bring attention to how users share content.“We know you come to Facebook to connect with friends, not with us.
(WITI) -- Facebook has begun rolling out its “Privacy Checkup” to help bring attention to how users share content.“We know you come to Facebook to connect with friends, not with us.
Mom's Facebook post gets 4-year-old son expelled
CALLAHAN, Fla. -- A Florida mom is fuming after her 4-year-old son was kicked out of preschool because of something she posted to her own Facebook page.Ashley Habat doesn’t think her 4-year-old son should be punished for what she wrote.Habat said her son, Will, was late for school on picture day at his private Christian preschool.When they arrived, she told the school that she thought it didn’t give parents enough notice for picture day.
CALLAHAN, Fla. -- A Florida mom is fuming after her 4-year-old son was kicked out of preschool because of something she posted to her own Facebook page.Ashley Habat doesn’t think her 4-year-old son should be punished for what she wrote.Habat said her son, Will, was late for school on picture day at his private Christian preschool.When they arrived, she told the school that she thought it didn’t give parents enough notice for picture day.
A hoax?! Menasha woman may face criminal charges due to a viral Facebook post
MENASHA (WITI) -- A Menasha woman may face criminal charges thanks to a viral Facebook post.
MENASHA (WITI) -- A Menasha woman may face criminal charges thanks to a viral Facebook post.
It wasn't just you, Facebook was down for everyone... and some called 911?
MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- If you were having difficulty logging on to Facebook Friday morning during the 11 a.m. hour, you were not alone.
MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- If you were having difficulty logging on to Facebook Friday morning during the 11 a.m. hour, you were not alone.
"I am HEATED right now:" Mom says daughter's "accident" in store led to humiliation on Facebook
HOLT, Mo. — A mother is upset after her two-year-old daughter’s accident in a store led to humiliation on Facebook.Samantha Sargent is proud of her daughter, Railyn, who was recently potty-trained.
HOLT, Mo. — A mother is upset after her two-year-old daughter’s accident in a store led to humiliation on Facebook.Samantha Sargent is proud of her daughter, Railyn, who was recently potty-trained.
Banned for life? Mother says photo of her two-year-old daughter could get her kicked off the site
NORTH CAROLINA (WITI) -- Facebook officials are speaking out after a Hickory, North Carolina mother says she could be banned for life after posting a photo of her young daughter that exposed her buttocks.Jill White, a photographer from Hickory, North Carolina told WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina she recreated the famous "Coppertone Girl" pose with her two-year-old daughter.
NORTH CAROLINA (WITI) -- Facebook officials are speaking out after a Hickory, North Carolina mother says she could be banned for life after posting a photo of her young daughter that exposed her buttocks.Jill White, a photographer from Hickory, North Carolina told WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina she recreated the famous "Coppertone Girl" pose with her two-year-old daughter.
Do negative posts lead to negative attitudes? Facebook experiment manipulates 700,000 user news feeds
MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- Do you find reading all of your friends' negative Facebook posts leads you to adopt a negative attitude?
MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- Do you find reading all of your friends' negative Facebook posts leads you to adopt a negative attitude?
WHOOPS! Man accused of burglarizing home logs onto Facebook there...and forgets to log off
MINNESOTA (WITI) -- WHOOPS!Some people...just can't fight the urge to check their Facebook account constantly -- but this man picked the wrong place and the wrong time!According to WCCO in Minneapolis, a Minnesota man is sitting in jail...because he logged on to Facebook.WCCO reports police say 26-year-old Nicholas Wig checked his Facebook profile from a home he broke into on June 19th.Unfortunately, he forgot to log off.The homeowner, James Wood, came home to find his house ransacked -- credit cards, cash and his watch all gone."I started to panic, but then I noticed he had pulled up his Facebook page," the homeowner, James Wood said.Wood posted to Wig's profile -- stating Wig had just burglarized his home -- even sharing his phone number.Wig texted him later that day.So how did police catch up with Wig?
MINNESOTA (WITI) -- WHOOPS!Some people...just can't fight the urge to check their Facebook account constantly -- but this man picked the wrong place and the wrong time!According to WCCO in Minneapolis, a Minnesota man is sitting in jail...because he logged on to Facebook.WCCO reports police say 26-year-old Nicholas Wig checked his Facebook profile from a home he broke into on June 19th.Unfortunately, he forgot to log off.The homeowner, James Wood, came home to find his house ransacked -- credit cards, cash and his watch all gone."I started to panic, but then I noticed he had pulled up his Facebook page," the homeowner, James Wood said.Wood posted to Wig's profile -- stating Wig had just burglarized his home -- even sharing his phone number.Wig texted him later that day.So how did police catch up with Wig?
Woman creates fake Facebook account, discovers niece is planning murder
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WITI/AP) — Authorities in central Alabama have arrested a 19-year-old woman they say tried to have someone she met on Facebook kill her family.But the person she was talking to over the social media site was actually her aunt.AL.com reports that Marissa Williams was arrested Monday and charged with solicitation of murder.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WITI/AP) — Authorities in central Alabama have arrested a 19-year-old woman they say tried to have someone she met on Facebook kill her family.But the person she was talking to over the social media site was actually her aunt.AL.com reports that Marissa Williams was arrested Monday and charged with solicitation of murder.
Woman posts about ‘Happy’ song on Facebook seconds before fatal crash
HIGH POINT, N.C. -- Investigators believe a driver was posting to Facebook seconds before she crashed and died.
HIGH POINT, N.C. -- Investigators believe a driver was posting to Facebook seconds before she crashed and died.
VIDEO: View your Facebook life in just 62 seconds
(CNN) -- If you're on Facebook, a new video about your life went live online Tuesday.
(CNN) -- If you're on Facebook, a new video about your life went live online Tuesday.
Kenosha Police Dept. issues warning about Facebook scam
KENOSHA (WITI) -- The Kenosha Police Department issued a warning on Monday, January 20th regarding a Facebook scam.According to police, some Kenosha-area residents have reported receiving messages from their known "Facebook friends" asking if they have a Chase Bank account.According to authorities, if the person replies that they do have a Chase Bank account, their Facebook friend will then ask for their account number -- claiming they can get "grant money" deposited into their account.Officials say a person then calls the victim, claiming to be a part of the grant deal, and requests PIN numbers and the location of their bank.The Kenosha Police Department is advising residents to NEVER give out personal information via Facebook.
KENOSHA (WITI) -- The Kenosha Police Department issued a warning on Monday, January 20th regarding a Facebook scam.According to police, some Kenosha-area residents have reported receiving messages from their known "Facebook friends" asking if they have a Chase Bank account.According to authorities, if the person replies that they do have a Chase Bank account, their Facebook friend will then ask for their account number -- claiming they can get "grant money" deposited into their account.Officials say a person then calls the victim, claiming to be a part of the grant deal, and requests PIN numbers and the location of their bank.The Kenosha Police Department is advising residents to NEVER give out personal information via Facebook.
Can Facebook predict your breakup?
(CNN) -- You're about to get dumped, and you have no idea -- but Facebook does!A new study by Cornell University and Facebook suggests the social network can predict how healthy your relationship is.Researchers got insight from more than a million Facebook users.The yardstick used to measure a relationship was something the researchers called dispersion -- or how well a couple's mutual friends are connected.Researchers found that a couple with a "low dispersion" -- or when the couple's friends are well-connected on the site, are 50% more likely to end the relationship over the next two months than a couple who has a "high dispersion" -- or connections to different groups of people.In simple terms, the study suggests people in the healthiest relationships have their own lives and friends.The findings will be presented at a conference on social computing in February.
(CNN) -- You're about to get dumped, and you have no idea -- but Facebook does!A new study by Cornell University and Facebook suggests the social network can predict how healthy your relationship is.Researchers got insight from more than a million Facebook users.The yardstick used to measure a relationship was something the researchers called dispersion -- or how well a couple's mutual friends are connected.Researchers found that a couple with a "low dispersion" -- or when the couple's friends are well-connected on the site, are 50% more likely to end the relationship over the next two months than a couple who has a "high dispersion" -- or connections to different groups of people.In simple terms, the study suggests people in the healthiest relationships have their own lives and friends.The findings will be presented at a conference on social computing in February.
Answer to the giraffe riddle on Facebook
The riddle: 3:00 am, the doorbell rings and you wake up.
The riddle: 3:00 am, the doorbell rings and you wake up.
Website maps 1.2 billion Facebook faces
(CNN) -- Facebook has so many users -- more than a billion, or roughly the population of India -- that squeezing them all into one Web page seems almost impossible.And yet someone has done just that.A new project, "The Faces of Facebook," collects more than 1.27 billion Facebook profile photos on one site, arranged in chronological order according to when the person joined the social network.
(CNN) -- Facebook has so many users -- more than a billion, or roughly the population of India -- that squeezing them all into one Web page seems almost impossible.And yet someone has done just that.A new project, "The Faces of Facebook," collects more than 1.27 billion Facebook profile photos on one site, arranged in chronological order according to when the person joined the social network.
NSA mines Facebook for connections, Americans' profiles
NEW YORK (CNN) -- In addition to phone records and email logs, the National Security Agency uses Facebook and other social media profiles to create maps of social connections -- including those of American citizens.The revelation was disclosed by the New York Times on Sunday, using documents provided to the newspaper by former government contractor Edward Snowden."We assume as Americans that if somebody in the government is looking at your information, it's because they have a reason, because you're suspected of a crime," Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, told CNN.But the documents do not specify how many Americans' social connections have been analyzed, or whether any have been implicated in wrongdoing.Change in policyThe surveillance began after a policy change in November 2010.Prior to then, the "chaining" of a foreign person's contacts had to stop when it reached an American citizen or legal resident.The policy change was intended to help the NSA "discover and track" connections from a foreign intelligence subject to an American citizen, the leaked documents show.It allows NSA analysts to use social media, geo-location information, insurance and tax records, plus other public and private sources to enhance their analysis of phone and email records, The Times reported Sunday.The "metadata" from phone and email records in the database include details such as who a person called or e-mailed.A PowerPoint slide provided to the newspaper by Snowden shows how analysts use software to create diagrams of where a person was at certain times, their traveling companions, their social networks and email correspondents.Defending the practicePresident Barack Obama has ordered a review of NSA's data collection practices because of Snowden's leaks.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- In addition to phone records and email logs, the National Security Agency uses Facebook and other social media profiles to create maps of social connections -- including those of American citizens.The revelation was disclosed by the New York Times on Sunday, using documents provided to the newspaper by former government contractor Edward Snowden."We assume as Americans that if somebody in the government is looking at your information, it's because they have a reason, because you're suspected of a crime," Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, told CNN.But the documents do not specify how many Americans' social connections have been analyzed, or whether any have been implicated in wrongdoing.Change in policyThe surveillance began after a policy change in November 2010.Prior to then, the "chaining" of a foreign person's contacts had to stop when it reached an American citizen or legal resident.The policy change was intended to help the NSA "discover and track" connections from a foreign intelligence subject to an American citizen, the leaked documents show.It allows NSA analysts to use social media, geo-location information, insurance and tax records, plus other public and private sources to enhance their analysis of phone and email records, The Times reported Sunday.The "metadata" from phone and email records in the database include details such as who a person called or e-mailed.A PowerPoint slide provided to the newspaper by Snowden shows how analysts use software to create diagrams of where a person was at certain times, their traveling companions, their social networks and email correspondents.Defending the practicePresident Barack Obama has ordered a review of NSA's data collection practices because of Snowden's leaks.
Facebook stock tops $50 for first time
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- More than a year after its botched initial public offering, Facebook's stock continues to race higher.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- More than a year after its botched initial public offering, Facebook's stock continues to race higher.
U.S. court says 'liking' something on Facebook is free speech
(CNN) -- A U.S. court of appeals gave Facebook a thumbs up on Wednesday when it ruled that "likes" on the social network are protected as free speech under the Constitution.In 2009, six employees at the Hampton Sheriff's Office in Virginia lost their jobs after expressing support for their boss' opponent in an upcoming election for sheriff, some by liking and commenting on the opponent's Facebook page.U.S. Circuit Judge William Traxler found that "liking" something on the social network was the "Internet equivalent of displaying a political sign in one's front yard," an act the Supreme Court has already ruled as protected speech.The decision from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, was a reversal of an earlier ruling on the case, in which District Judge Raymond Jackson said liking a Facebook page was "insufficient speech to merit constitutional protection."Other courts have ruled that posts on the social network are protected as free speech, but Jackson differentiated between making full statements and just clicking a button to like something.Two of the employees, Deputy Daniel Carter and Robert McCoy, claimed they were fired by Sheriff B.J. Roberts specifically for liking a Facebook profile for Roberts' opponent, Jim Adams.
(CNN) -- A U.S. court of appeals gave Facebook a thumbs up on Wednesday when it ruled that "likes" on the social network are protected as free speech under the Constitution.In 2009, six employees at the Hampton Sheriff's Office in Virginia lost their jobs after expressing support for their boss' opponent in an upcoming election for sheriff, some by liking and commenting on the opponent's Facebook page.U.S. Circuit Judge William Traxler found that "liking" something on the social network was the "Internet equivalent of displaying a political sign in one's front yard," an act the Supreme Court has already ruled as protected speech.The decision from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, was a reversal of an earlier ruling on the case, in which District Judge Raymond Jackson said liking a Facebook page was "insufficient speech to merit constitutional protection."Other courts have ruled that posts on the social network are protected as free speech, but Jackson differentiated between making full statements and just clicking a button to like something.Two of the employees, Deputy Daniel Carter and Robert McCoy, claimed they were fired by Sheriff B.J. Roberts specifically for liking a Facebook profile for Roberts' opponent, Jim Adams.