Chose carefully who your friends are! This is a good thing to do in general, and without Facebook!
This article is good in one respect: It shows a side of Social Media which is existing and we need to know it. And that Big Brother is watching you is commonly known; it is not a new thing.
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Posted by Caitlin Fitzsimmons on October 15th
Did you know the American Government is now monitoring social networking sites to try to identify immigration fraud? As The Huffington Post puts it, Big Brother really is watching you!
In documents obtained by the Electronic Frontiers Foundation, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services advises staff how to infiltrate social networks for the equivalent of an “unannounced cyber ‘site-visit’ on a petitioners and beneficiaries”. The document, Social Networking Sites and Their Importance to FDNS [Office of Fraud Detection and National Security] [PDF], states:
“Narcissistic tendencies in many people fuels a need to have a large group of ‘friends’ link to their pages and many of these people accept cyber-friends that they don’t even know. This provides an excellent vantage point for FDNS to observe the daily life of beneficiaries and petitioners who are suspected of fraudulent activities.
read more here: http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-government-surveillance-2010-10
I honestly believe that this is one of the most important components of a fan page. It’s a simple component yet within the confines of a 200 pixel wide box, you would be surprised with the creative ideas that people come up with. Recently Rob Banagale, a guest author on AllFacebook, published an article entitled “