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12 Reasons Why You Should Research a Facebook Rumour Before Passing It On
Viral Facebook rumours are one of the most commonly experienced phenomena on the social networking site. Spread from user to user, different rumours seem to pop up every day. But whilst many rumours a ... read more

Will Facebook/Hospitals Donate Money for Sharing a Photo?
This article deals with the trending hoax on Facebook that claims money will be donated or an operation will be granted based on the number of times a photo or message is shared across Facebook. Are t ... read more

The Typical Online Work-From-Home “opportunity”
We look into those online work-from-home opportunities that we come across from time to time, promising easy money for only a few hours of day working from part time from the comfort of your own home. ... read more

Who Checks Your Profile? The Most Popular Application Thats Never Actually Existed
This article deals with the plethora of scams using the bait of allowing a user to check who visits their Facebook profile and how often. With the beginning of the Facebook timeline era underway, Face ... read more

Can you Disable the Facebook Timeline? The Facts.
This article deals with the various rumours, videos, applications, Facebook pages/events and websites that claim they provide a way of disabling the Facebook timeline. Over the past few weeks, inevita ... read more

Top 10 Most Viewed Articles 2011
As usual at the start of each year we compile out top ten most viewed articles from the previous year. Just like 2010, 2011 was dominated by viral rumours that ran amok on social networking sites, spe ... read more

The history of the term Hacker
The term “hacker” is one often thrown around the Internet to cause alarm. Anyone who uses social networking sites like Twitter, MySpace and Facebook will most likely have seen some variati ... read more

Scammers Use Browser Extensions to Help Spread Facebook Scams
Facebook spam is already a significant problem as it is, so users of the social networking site probably won’t be happy to learn that scammers have found yet another way of circulating their various ... read more

The “Facebook Timeline” timeline begins. What you need to know.
Facebook amendments of yonder have rarely been received well. Facebook users just don’t react well to change, and since its creation Facebook has done a lot of changing. It seems like when you’v ... read more

It’s National Un-friend Day (or NUD, for those that like acronyms)
How many real friends do you have? We mean real, genuine, bona-fide friends. Someone who you know you can call on – night or day – and they’ll be there to help, no questions, no qualms. ... read more