Denise's New in the law and fined $ 435 for taking his son's facebook account expert

Facebook made the news. A mother from Arkansas, United States, the court adjudged guilty of child abuse. The mother named Denise New (30 years) was then sentenced to jail, but switch to a criminal trial judge. Mother and child are in session for two hours in the District Court of Clark County, Arkansas, that they previously had good relations. But their relationship deteriorated late spring this year.

Facebook has become the trigger bigger fights when her son called home visit to New Lane. The mother asked her son to return a key to the house, but the boy refused. The mother was acting tough, prohibits 17-year-old son into the house to take his belongings.

One of them held by the mother is a Facebook account for her son. She then posted a number of things vulgar. One of them, “The only mistake I made was to have a child.” Then the mother, as if given a position as his son, wrote “Check this one – I went to the house of mother and started arguing and called police. She (the mother – red) nearly went to prison. Cool is not it? Ha, ha, ha. ”

The mother later admitted to the judge Randy Hill that he put it for his son not to close her account properly. The mother was then also change the account password so that the child can not access it anymore. The judge also found the mother to send short messages to his son with a vulgarity. The judge also considered that the mother was too much action. “It’s really inappropriate.”

The judge then decided on Thursday, May 27, 2010 hearing that, she must pay a fine New U.S. $ 435 and attend anger management and parenting classes in lieu of imprisonment of 30 days. In addition, she also instructed her son not be met during the training period.

Denise’s attorney, Justin Hurst, said it would discuss the possibility of appeal against this decision. Denise himself to the media, said his son had been living with his grandmother since five years earlier, after he passed through a difficult divorce. She said the tension with his son happened because he was worried about the behavior of children and friends children. He became concerned because he read on Facebook that Lane was driving his son with a high speed because of a crush on a girl.

Mark Zuckerberg Promise Privacy Protect for the Users

Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that social networking site had made a mistake in protecting the confidentiality of its users and promised to immediately deal with it. Zuckerberg claimed responsibility for that mistake, through the exchange of electronic mail with the famous technology blogger Robert Scoble, who then disseminated through the permission of Zuckerberg’s personal page.

“I want to make sure that when this issue is resolved,” the sound of a message refers to Zuckerberg. “I know we have done a number of negligence, but ultimately I hope the service becomes more perfect, and people understand that our intentions are good, and we’re responding to feedback from the people we serve.”

Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old right on May 14 and said, Facebook will directly speak to the public this week regarding the modification of user privacy regulations. “We hold all enter and try to filter it down to the important things we wanted to continue to improve,” Zuckerberg wrote.

Saturday declared last week Facebook plans to simplify the control of the confidentiality of its users to ward off criticism over the years. Facebook considers users liked the new programs created in the “hotspot” The Internet is based in California but would like to facilitate the personal information that can be shared, via third party applications or pages. Features that were introduced last month including the ability of partners in the pages of data connected with Facebook, a move which will mean more and expand the social networking presence on the Internet. Facebook has been criticized exhausted by its users in the U.S., consumer protection groups, U.S. legislators and the European Union, concerning the new features mengumbar accused of confidentiality more than 400 million users.

Facebook Will Change the privacy options on Facebook

After experiencing pressure from various parties, eventually Facebook privacy options intended to simplify the user. In this interview with Kojo Nnamdi Show, public radio, Facebook’s chief of Public Policy, Tim Sparapani, said that his company was working on simplification of privacy options, such as what is demanded by many users so far.

“We heard from users that privacy option that we make today are too complex. I think we’ll pass them,” said Sparapani as quoted from the Wired site. “We will provide the option for users who want the privacy. I think we’ll be able to see it in the next few weeks,” said Sparapani.

Lately, Facebook was accused of restricting their users to have full control over their personal data in the most popular social networking site that. Facebook privacy statement grown increasingly complicated. In fact, now Facebook has a privacy statement that is longer than the United States Constitution. To truly be able to control the privacy of Facebook users have to perform 50 times with 170 privacy setting options offered.

To adjust the image alone, each with a photo album in Facebook should be arranged one by one whether to be published to everyone, only to friends, or to certain people only. Imagine if someone has hundreds of photos or dozens of album that should be checked one by one. Facebook’s privacy policy changes introduced since the end of December 2009 it made a lot of users do not really understand or care about their privacy.

Recent research from Consumer Reports said, 23 percent of Facebook users do not know the Facebook privacy controls offered, or claimed to not want used. but, when it also changed the Facebook privacy settings previously set by default as’ private ‘, becomes the default as’ public ‘. Therefore, a new Facebook user profile, will automatically be seen by everyone. Even with the new Open Graph API, Facebook distribute Facebook user information to third-party service sites such as Yelp, Microsoft Docs.com, and Pandora.

As quoted by The New York Times, analysts suspect Facebook is looking for a gap to seek profits from the advertisers. Therefore, more information from users that are displayed on their Facebook, Facebook will be more able to avoid a first ads that are relevant to the content information.

Facebook, Zynga( Farmville,Mafia Wars,Cafe World ) commit for 5 years

NEW YORK Quelling rumors of a breakup, Facebook and the company behind many of the most popular games on the social network say they’ve signed a five-year partnership that will keep “Farmville,” “Mafia Wars” and “Cafe World” on the site.

Zynga’s games are popular distractions on Facebook. The games have more than 230 million active users monthly. Of these, 65 million play every day, tending to virtual farms and aquariums, playing poker or taking out rival mob bosses. Zynga makes money by selling advertising and virtual goods for the games.

Facebook’s user base, meanwhile is approaching 500 million. The companies aren’t giving details on the partnership. But its existence should put to rest recent worries that Zynga was planning to leave Facebook for greener pastures, such as its own gaming site. (AP)

Facebook not enough to score Oscar hosting gig for Betty White

LOS ANGELES Facebook fans brought Betty White to “Saturday Night Live,” and now they’ve got their eyes on the Oscars.A page on the social networking website, called Official Page for Getting Betty White to Host the Academy Awards, has collected more than 56,000 fans.One commenter wrote that “Betty White would be one of the best hosts ever!!!!!”

But the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says it isn’t ready to let Facebook make casting decisions for film’s biggest night.Spokeswoman Leslie Unger says the academy plans to continue with its protocol of allowing the producers to select the host that will best serve the show they’re trying to put together. (AP)

Four U.S. senators want Facebook to make it easier for its more than 400 million users to protect their privacy as the website develops new outlets to share personal information

SAN FRANCISCO Four U.S. senators want Facebook to make it easier for its more than 400 million users to protect their privacy as the website develops new outlets to share personal information.The call for simpler privacy controls came in a letter that the senators plan to send Tuesday to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The Associated Press obtained a draft of the letter signed by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo; Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska; and Sen. Al Franken, D.-Minn.It marks the second time in the past three days that Schumer has expressed his misgivings about a series of changes that Facebook announced last week. The new features are designed to unlock more of the data that the online hangout has accumulated about people during its six-year history.

Schumer sent a letter Sunday to the Federal Trade Commission calling for regulators to draw up clearer privacy guidelines for Facebook and other Internet social networks to follow.The political pressure threatens to deter Facebook’s efforts to put its stamp on more websites, a goal that could yield more moneymaking opportunities for the privately held company.

Facebook’s expansion “raises new concerns for users who want to maintain control over their information,” the senators wrote in their preliminary draft.In a statement late Monday, Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes said the company wants to meet with Schumer to explain its commitment to privacy.

“We’ve developed powerful tools to give our users control over what information they want to share, when they want to share it and with whom,” Noyes said.Among other things, Facebook is plugging into other websites so people can communicate their interests with their online entourages. Facebook also tweaked its own website to create more pages where people’s biographical information could be exposed to a wider audience.

Before personal information can be shared with other websites, the senators want Facebook to seek users’ explicit consent, a process known as “opting in.” Facebook currently can share some personal information with websites unless individual users opt out by telling the company they don’t want those details to be passed along.The senators also object to Facebook’s decision to allow other businesses store users’ data for more than 24 hours.

Zuckerberg, who turns 26 next month, says he just wants to build more online avenues for people to connect with their friends and family. Some of his previous efforts have been detoured by privacy concerns, most notably in 2007 when Facebook users revolted against notification tool, called Beacon, that broadcast their activities on dozens of websites.Facebook responded to that rebellion by giving people more control over Beacon before scrapping the program completely. (AP)

Facebook users protest how tough it is to get the 'opt out' of new features on facebook.

Now Facebook has claimed that distinction.Annoyed users who want to be asked to “opt in” rather than being forced to “opt out” are protesting how many steps it takes to get rid of the latest Facebook features.When users logged into Facebook on Wednesday, they got this message: “Connect with your friends on your favorite websites.”

Clicking on a “Learn More” link, they discovered they would have to “opt out.” When they unchecked the box to reject “instant personalization,” up popped a box to inform them just how lonely they would be on the Internet, left out of the rich experience of sharing the Web with their friends.Oh, and by the way: “Please keep in mind that if you opt out, your friends may still share public Facebook information about you to personalize their experience on these partner sites unless you block the application.”

So it’s off to yet another link: “You can opt-out of instant personalization by disallowing it here. By clicking ‘No Thanks’ on the Facebook notification on partner sites, partners will delete your data. To prevent your friends from sharing any of your information with an instant personalization partner, block the application: Microsoft Docs.com, Pandora, Yelp.”

Facebook says it is "aggressively disabling" applications that claim to allow users to see who is viewing their profile

Facebook says it is “aggressively disabling” applications that claim to allow users to see who is viewing their profile. It has also confirmed that the programmes do not work and won’t allow access to private information. Several variants of the so-called “stalker apps” have appeared on Facebook in recent days.

Unwitting users have helped spread the rogue software by attempting to install it. Among the applications that have now disappeared from the site are “Stalker Check”, and “Who has visited my profile”. They claim to show users who, among their friends, is regularly visiting their page. In a statement, Facebook said: “Don’t believe any applications that claim they can show you who’s viewing your profile or photo. They can’t.”

Our philosophy is that having an open system anyone can participate in is generally better Most of the stalker apps appear to have been created to generate cash for their designers. Facebook’s Head of European Policy, Richard Allan, said: “Applications try to attract users in and try to get people to install them. “Once a large number of users have installed that application, they can try to offer services like advertising that will make money.” However, there remains the potential for victims to be directed to sites containing viruses and other malicious software.

It has, once again, raised the question of Facebook introducing an application vetting process, along the lines of Apple’s App Store system. Speaking to Newsbeat in March 2009, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg rejected the idea. He said: “There will occasionally be some applications that people don’t like. “Our philosophy is that having an open system anyone can participate in is generally better.”

facebook using paypal for the payment method

Facebook and PayPal today announced a strategic partnership. With such cooperation, PayPal will become a key service in the field of advertising and Facebook development system. As part of the relationship, advertisers from around the world will be able to use PayPal to pay through Facebook Ads Facebook’s advertising tools. For entrepreneurs in the region where the payment process can be a difficult and expensive, the availability of payment options through PayPal makes it easy for advertisers. Especially small-scale international companies that do business on Facebook.

As an illustration only, this time Facebook has reached 400 million people with 70 per cent are users who live outside the United States. PayPal will also be a payment option for Facebook Credits, which is currently tested in several games and applications for Facebook. The purpose of Credits Facebook is allowing users to quickly they can buy virtual goods on Facebook. Including items from Facebook Gift Shop.

“We want to provide fast and reliable way to make payments to people who use Facebook as well as advertisers and application developers,” said Dan Levy, Director of Payment Operations Facebook, in his statement, February 19, 2010. “With the growth of our business, offers a variety of payment methods become increasingly important for advertisers who want to buy Facebook Ads,” said Levy. “Cooperation with PayPal, the world’s major players in the field of online payment allows all of this,” he said.

Simply, Levy said, the business is in the field of PayPal payment. “We allow travelers to send and receive money online in 24 currencies in 190 countries around the world,” said Osama Bedier, Vice President of Emerging Technology Platform and PayPal. “We have become part of the Facebook developer ecosystem,” Bedier said. “Now we are delighted to expand our partnership with Facebook directly related to helping advertisers grow their businesses and application developers,” he said.

Facebook Inc. is expanding a service called Facebook Credits that gives it a 30 percent cut of sales from tractors

Facebook Inc. is expanding a service called Facebook Credits that gives it a 30 percent cut of sales from tractors, fish food and guns in online games, according to four people who have held discussions with the company.Facebook is already testing the payment option in at least 17 games, including “Happy Aquarium” and “Restaurant City.” The company will make the service available in more games ahead of its annual developers conference in April, said the people, who declined to be named because the plans aren’t public.After relying on advertising for almost all of its revenue, Facebook is moving to take a bigger piece of the market for virtual items bought in games, which may quadruple to $3.6 billion in the U.S. by 2012, according to ThinkEquity LLC. Today, almost all of those sales go to the game developers, such as Zynga Inc., creator of “FarmVille,” and Electronic Arts Inc.’s Playfish unit.

“It will likely be a significant revenue stream,” said Jeremy Liew, a managing director at Menlo Park, California-based Lightspeed Venture Partners who invests in social games. “They’ll keep working on it until it makes economic sense for developers.”Facebook, the most popular social-networking site, allows outside developers to offer games to its 400 million users. The games are free, and players can pay for items that advance their progress, such as a $3.33 tractor in “FarmVille,” a $5.95 helicopter in “Mafia Wars” or a $4.89 box of fish food for “Happy Aquarium.”
Facebook Cut
The Palo Alto, California-based company is seeking to take advantage of the popularity of online games, a market that has already blossomed in Asia. Shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd., a game company in Shenzhen, China, tripled in the past year, giving it a market value of $35 billion. Facebook is also taking a page from Apple Inc., which gets a 30 percent cut of sales from iPhone apps.Today, gamers on Facebook can either buy Facebook Credits to obtain items in games, or pay for them through third-party services. Of the $3.6 billion in U.S. virtual goods sales in 2012, about $2.2 billion will be on social networks, with 80 percent on Facebook, said Atul Bagga, a ThinkEquity analyst in San Francisco. If all payments on the site use Facebook Credits, that would mean $530 million in revenue for the company, he said.

‘Trust Factor’

“It’s the trust factor,” Bagga said. “You trust Facebook more than you would trust any other payment company.”EBay Inc.’s PayPal unit said yesterday that it will become a payment option for Facebook Credits, allowing PayPal customers to buy the site’s virtual currency. Players can also use credit cards or their mobile phone to buy credits.Payments and virtual currencies will likely be a focus of Facebook’s developers conference, which is scheduled to start April 21 in San Francisco, said three people who have had discussions with the company.

“We are continuing to look at ways to extend our virtual currency Facebook Credits  via a small alpha test with a handful of developers,” Facebook said in an e-mailed statement. “The test started in May and is exploring ways for people to use their Facebook Credits with third-party applications.”Allowing Facebook’s users to buy a single virtual currency that can be spent on all games will probably increase sales for developers, said Vish Makhijani, chief operating officer of San Francisco-based Zynga, the largest creator of games on the site.

‘Additional Liquidity’

“Facebook Credits will drive more people to become buyers,” Makhijani said. “That additional liquidity or ability to spend in more places clearly would be more attractive to a consumer than something you can only spend in one place.”

In rolling out Facebook Credits, the company may still allow players to buy goods using other payment services. Developers would prefer to have Facebook Credits as an option rather than being the exclusive payments provider  because purchases made with Facebook cost them more, said Vikas Gupta, chief executive officer of Jambool Inc., also known as Social Gold, which offers an in-game payment system.“Facebook Credits comes at a pretty high tax,” said Gupta, whose San Francisco-based company charges developers 7 percent to 10 percent per purchase. Still, he said Facebook Credits “will help grow the overall ecosystem so you’ll see more people pay for goods.”