An Indonesian woman finally found her brother after 35 years through popular social networking website Facebook. Nurlianti Dehi (Woman) and Anton(Brother) both were separated in their hometown in Central Sulawesi province for neighbouring North Sulawesi, according to the online edition of the Media Indonesia daily.

Initially Nurlianti had given up hope of finding her brother but Anton’s daughter is able to find her on Facebook and contacted her.
She said she initially doubted if the person who spoke on the phone was her brother, but became convinced after they shared some stories of childhood.

Scammers designed some new websites clamming that Google started hiring and job seekers can work from their home. The scam website is designed is such a way, that it looks like convincing news paper article. Attackers circulating heavily this website via Ad networks and social networking websites.

Example of the scam wall post on Facebook from a hacked account

The scam site:

To "cash in on the opportunity” all you have to do is fork up a measly $1.95 for the “Easy Google Profit” kit.  Unfortunately, if you fall for the scam, you’re going to be taken for more than what you bargained for. Ripoff Report shows one victims struggle with these scam artists. Apparently they automatically started charging the victim $39.98 per month on top of an additional $129.95 fee.  On top of that, they enrolled him in a 14 day trial for another site, which charges $29.95 a month if not canceled in time.

Source : Panda Labs Blog

People say friends can’t be bought but this is not the case with social networking website. An Australian online marketing company is selling friends and fans to Facebook users. Facebook is an extremely effective marketing tool.The simple fact is that with a large following on Facebook, you have an instant and targeted group of people you can contact and promote whatever it is you want to promote.The only problem is that it can be extremely difficult to achieve such a following, which is where we come in. The company offers packages for Facebook, the world’s number one social networking site, that start at 1,000 friends up to 10,000 friends at costs ranging from $177 to $1,167.

Basically usoical sends welcomes message or friends request from the client. If they decide to go ahead and add that person as a friend or a fan then they will; if not, then they won’t.

Facebook is now the world’s fourth-most visited website. The company, which counts venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Accel Partners, Microsoft Corp and Russian Internet investment firm Digital Sky Technologies among its investors, has more than 250 million registered users.

Bing team in Microsoft working very hard to add more and more new feature in Bing. Bing team is now trying to build a bridge between Bing search results and social networking website. Bing & Ping will enable users to share their Bing search results with their friends on different social networking websites.

How Bing & Ping would Work ?

Bing & Ping will appear at the bottom of search results and users will be able to share these search results information with their friends via Social networking websites including Facebook, Twitter or they can simply send them an E-Mail.

Bing & Ping allow Bing users to share any kind of search results with their friends.

Bing & Ping is not yet available for testing yet but Microsoft only delivered a taste of the feature in the screenshots included with this article. If you’re interested in previewing this feature, be sure to become a fan of our Facebook page. Microsoft will be sending a special invitation to our fans to preview Bing and Ping. Check it out and let Bing team know what you think, if you like it and how Bing Team can make it better.

As Social Networking website including MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, Twitter,Windows Live Spaces and there are a lot of other services used by people to connect and share their personal information with other including photos, video and other type of information. People also use social networking websites to make new friends and expand their network of friends. As more and more people are using social networking websites for sharing their information with others, Hackers, spammers, virus writers, identity thieves, and other criminals see this as an easy medium to do their activities. Microsoft is committed to help it’s users to protect their data and in this series they have publishes 10 social networking safety tips on their website.

1. Use caution when you click links that you receive in messages from your friends on your social Web site. Treat links in messages on these sites as you would links in e-mail messages. (For more information, see Approach links in e-mail with caution.)
2. Don’t trust that a message is really from who it says it’s from. Hackers can break into accounts and send messages that look like they’re from your friends, but aren’t. If you suspect that a message is fraudulent, use an alternate method to contact your friend to find out. This includes invitations to join new social networks.
3. To avoid giving away e-mail addresses of your friends, do not allow social networking services to scan your e-mail address book. When you join a new social network, you might receive an offer to enter your e-mail address and password to find out who else is on the network. The site might use this information to send e-mail messages to everyone in your contact list or even everyone you’ve ever sent an e-mail message to with that e-mail address. Social networking sites should explain that they’re going to do this, but some do not.
4. Type the address of your social networking site directly into your browser or use your personal bookmarks. If you click a link to your site through e-mail or another Web site, you might be entering your account name and password into a fake site where your personal information could be stolen.
5. Be selective about who you accept as a friend on a social network. Identity thieves might create fake profiles in order to get information from you. This is known as social engineering.
6. Choose your social network carefully. Evaluate the site that you plan to use and make sure you understand the privacy policy. Find out if the site monitors content that people post. You will be providing personal information to this Web site, so use the same criteria that you would to select a site where you enter your credit card.
7. Assume what you write on a social networking site is permanent. Even if you can delete your account, anyone on the Internet can easily print the information or save it to a computer.
8. Be careful about installing extras on your site. Many social networking sites allow you to download third-party applications that let you do more with your personal page. Criminals sometimes use these applications in order to steal your personal information. To download and use third-party applications safely, take the same safety precautions that you take with any other program or file you download from the Web. For more information, see Before you download files, help protect your computer.
9. Think twice before you use social networking sites at work. For more information, see Be careful with social networking sites, especially at work.
10. Talk to your kids about social networking. If you’re a parent of children who use social networking sites, see How to help your kids use social Web sites more safely.

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