SOCIAL networking giant Facebook has come under fire for a survey in which it asked whether it should allow child grooming. The US-owned company asked several thousand users what its rules should be regarding a “private message in which an adult man asks a 14-year-old girl for pictures”. Read More

In a survey distributed on Sunday morning Facebook asked whether the rules on the hypothetical private message to the girl should be decided by the network, external experts or users. It then asked users how they would handle the message “in an ideal world”. The options also included allowing the … …

Lompoc Facebook group collecting donations for pregnant widow of fallen Airmen … A Lompoc based Facebook group stepped up to help a woman they've never met. If you've seen painted rocks around Lompoc, they likely came from the Facebook group Lompoc Rocks!! “It's something we have in … Read More

CHESTERTON — Police have posted a public notice on their Facebook page that they are aware of a threatening post made against Chesterton High School … Anyone with information about the post, other than the original post itself, is asked to call police at 219-926-1136 or use Facebook messenger. Read …

Freshly paranoid about data retention on social media, and spurred on by competition regulators' investigations into Google and Facebook, I decided to look into this by downloading my own Facebook data. Even before looking at my data, I had already suspected Facebook had stopped being a social … Read More

With advertisers clamoring for uncontroversial environments, Facebook is pitching a brand-safe program to advertisers, but the black-box nature of the proposal has some ad buyers balking. Facebook is offering the chance to buy ads against what it considers its most brand-safe videos, according to four … Read More

Three years ago, Facebook rolled out its Anthology program, an attempt to pair brands and publishers to produce branded content to distribute on its social network. But brands have increasingly bypassed Facebook to do their own matchmaking, as the value of Facebook's program has faded and its … Read More

WASHINGTON DC: A large majority of Americans continue to use Facebook (68%) and YouTube (73%), but social media platforms like Snapchat and Instagram are especially popular among young consumers aged 18 to 24. These are some of the headline findings from the latest Pew Research Center … Read More

Can't write it, or you're too self-conscious to film it? You may soon be able to just say it. Facebook has confirmed it is testing a new Voice Clips feature in status updates. As Facebook tests a multitude of ways to get users to share more personal updates on its …

Facebook sent users a survey asking how the company should react 'in an ideal world' if a man messaged a 14-year-old girl asking for pictures. The social media giant sent out the survey asking what its rules should be in regards to a 'private message in which an adult man …