{"id":4225,"date":"2011-11-16T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2011-11-16T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T21:37:00","slug":"media-tripe-and-how-not-to-use-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2011\/11\/media-tripe-and-how-not-to-use-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Tripe and How Not To Use Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

I often get frustrated with how technology problems are portrayed in the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

Invariably, a nameless staff writer gets tapped to write a quick story about a tiny snippet that has appeared on a wire service somewhere, generally without any real knowledge or understanding of what they are trying to write about.<\/p>\n

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This example – a syndicated story out of AFP<\/a> – has gone for the lowest common denominator, and a sure fire way to get the story syndicated by other news outlets who equally don’t understand, by coming up with a Facebook scandal.<\/p>\n

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Facebook Users Exposed to Hardcore Porn<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n

I mean, really?<\/p>\n

“Facebook is investigating reports that some members of the social network have been receiving extreme pornography and violent images in their news feeds.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“It seems highly offensive spam content has successfully spread via Facebook for 24 hours or more,” Cluley said, adding that it not immediately clear how it was being spread.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh my god, facepalm!<\/p>\n

Ever wondered why people go to the trouble of creating all those silly groups named along the lines of “Like This If You Love The Carebears”?<\/p>\n

So that in two years from now, when you’ve completely forgotten about it – (honestly, you’ve probably forgotten within a few minutes) – they change the name of the group to “I Love Hardcore Porn Images In My News Feed”, and start “providing” you with exactly that.<\/p>\n

It’s the spammers and hackers folks, trying to get your details!<\/p>\n

Just don’t “Like” these things, even if they seem innocuous. Most of the time they will be fine, but over time, some of them will not be.<\/p>\n

Most of all, I got a laugh from the Sophos<\/a> engineer saying that it is “not immediately clear how it was being spread”. <\/p>\n

Oh, man, really?<\/p>\n

I love that his name is Cluley. It should actually be “Clueless”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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