6 Advantages of Not Using Facebook

Posted on March 1st, 2011 by AZCategory: facebook, Tags: 6 advantages of not using facebook, advantages of no facebook, advantages of not using facebook, facebook, no facebook, not using facebook, say no to facebook

Some people will argue that Facebook is the most popular social network site and it helps you keep in touch with friends and family. Then why you guys don’t like facebook. So i thought to give you some advantages of not using facebook that will prove that without facebook you will be more safe, happy and more social person than using facebook and other social networking sites.

Here are some advantages of not using Facebook:

1 – Don’t Have To Worry About Privacy
The first benefit is that you won’t have to worry about privacy concerns. Many people aren’t aware of some of the strange terms of service changes that Facebook has made in the last year or so. Some of these have been changed back because users didn’t like them, but your photos and personal information could potentially be compromised using this system.

2 – Facebook is a Waste of Time
Many get sucked into Facebook and it ends up being a waste of time. Without having an account, you don’t have to worry about this becoming a problem at all and literally can save hell of time to spend with your family and friends.

3 – Control Over Types of Conversation
Without Facebook you can have control over the types of conversations that you want to have with people. Some people just don’t like talking through a computer. You might not be able to type well or might enjoy the phone or talking in person much better.

4 – Avoid Higher Risk of Effecting Your Computer From Malware and Scams
Some people click links in Facebook that lead to malware problems or scams. Without using an account, you won’t have to worry about getting these types of problems through that site. Well you can get malwares and trojans by visiting some sites and through emails but the risk is much higher when you use facebook and other social networking sites.

5 – Reliable Communication
Communication on Facebook is not as reliable as you would like. Some people are on it every day meaning you will reach them but some don’t sign on too often. Using your phone to call or text is a bit more reliable.

6 – Can Keep Things to Yourself
Without having a Facebook account, you can keep more things to yourself. You might not want others to know everything about your life all the time.

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5 The Most Common Security Threats on Facebook

Posted on February 18th, 2011 by AZCategory: facebook, Tags: facebook, facebook dangerous, facebook security, facebook threats, most common threats on facebook, security threats on facebook

With growing usage of internet and social networking sites especially Facebook world is getting under more and more security threats. These threats always find new ways to get in your personal life and can even make your life hell. So it is always to be aware of these threats and you should try your best to avoid them.

So here we are mentioning five most common security threats on facebook.

1. Clickjacking
This is the most common attacks hitting Facebook users. These attacks use maliciously created pages where the true function of a button is concealed beneath an opaque layer showing something entirely different. Often sharing or “liking” the content in question sends the attack out to contacts through news feeds and status updates, propagating the scam.

2. Fake surveys
This scam is related to clickjacking since it attempts to make you click on something dangerous via a misleading message. Typically, the scam starts with a provocative (sexual or otherwise) message. like: “OMG! Look What this Kid did to his School after being Expelled!”

3. Rogue applications
More perniciously, the fake survey can lead to rogue applications. Sometimes the applications will look for your address book and send the fake surveys to everyone in it, hoping to make money. Other rogue applications can hijack data by installing key loggers or other malware. Other fake applications can turn your computer into a zombie.

4. Amazon vulnerability
A security flaw apparently allows the company’s servers to accept passwords that are nearly but not entirely correct. Fortunately, the flaw only appears to affect older passwords. The flaw lets Amazon accept as valid some passwords that have extra characters added on after the 8th character, and also makes the password case-insensitive. That flaw erases the advantage of a longer password, making passwords much easier to crack via software. This was first noticed by users over at reddit and has been picked up and verified by a number of reputable groups, including Wired.

5. Spearphishing
This is more likely to occur via regular e-mail; but you may also be hit by a spear through a Facebook or Twitter message. Spearphishing (or spear phishing) works like this. You’ll get an e-mail or message that seems quite personal, it may appear to be from a person or company with whom you normally communicate. But it will lead you to a poisoned site. Yes, this sounds like the “phishing” scams you’ve been warned about. In those you might get a message from your e-mail provider saying your inbox is full or you have to verify your identity and so on. Spear phishing takes that a step further by adding personalized information to lull your suspicions. Phishing messages usually appear to come from a large and well-known company or Web site with a broad membership base, such as eBay or PayPal. In the case of spear phishing, however, the apparent source of the e-mail is likely to be an individual within the recipient’s own company and generally someone in a position of authority.

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55-Year old Unemployed Woman falls for a $500,000 Facebook Scam

Posted on June 13th, 2011 by AZCategory: News, facebook, Tags: facebook, facebook scam, older women on facebook, women on facebook, women scam on internet

A 55-year old woman who is unemployed because of her back injury problem falls for a $500,000 scam. It all started with a Facebook Wall message “You have Won”.

A woman, who doesn’t want to reveal her name, clicked on the message and she was told to send an email to the Facebook claims department with given code numbers. After some days she received an email with the message that she needs to transfer $544 to Trans Global Express Courier Service so she can recieve her $500,000 cheque. She did it via Western Union so she can get her enormous cheque couriered quick smart.

Later that night she received a call from a man who told her that she needs to transfer further $5000 to the British Immigration Tax Offices to clear her cheque.

She spoke to her daughter who told her its most probably a scam. Woman still went to her bank to get an application for bank loan as she doesn’t have enough money but didn’t filled it and send an email back to the scammer that she didn’t have enough money. She then went to Police station.

Woman said: “But I never filled it in. I emailed the people back and told them I didn’t have enough money.”

In her statement she said: “I was thinking, Oh God, someone is looking after me. I didn’t even enter any competition. I was overwhelmed. It’s all just so embarrassing. I just can’t believe I fell for it now. I’m not a gullible person.”

About the money, $544 she transfered via WU, Woman said: “I was told it was needed because it was such a large amount of money.”

Later after investigating Police issued a warning via press statement for others to not to fall for the scam.

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Facebook is Growing up a Self-Obsessed Generation

Posted on August 2nd, 2011 by AZCategory: News, facebook, Tags: baroness greenfield, facebook growing up self-obsessed generation, facebook self-obsessed generation, facebook. facebook generation, oxford university research facebook, professor baroness greenfield, self-obsessed generation

Professor Baroness Greenfield, A well known scientist, of pharmacology at Oxford University indicated that Facebook is growing up a self-obsessed generation who have childlike desires and have concentration problems.

Prof. Baroness Greenfield believes that growth of social life on internet and as well as high use of computer games could effectively “rewire” the brain.

This can result in reduced concentration, a need for instant gratification and poor non-verbal skills, such as the ability to make eye contact during conversations.

Prof.Baroness Greenfield also a former director of research body of the Oxford University, said: “Why should someone be interested in what someone else has had for breakfast? It reminds me of a small child (saying): ‘Look at me Mummy, I’m doing this’, ‘Look at me Mummy I’m doing that’. It’s almost as if they’re in some kind of identity crisis. In a sense it’s keeping the brain in a sort of time warp.”

Prof. Greenfield continued: “Some Facebook users feel the need to become ‘mini celebrities’ who are watched and admired by others on a daily basis. They do things that are ‘Facebook worthy’ because the only way they can define themselves is by ‘people knowing about them’. It’s almost as if people are living in a world that’s not a real world, but a world where what counts is what people think of you or (if they) can click on you.”

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Facebook is Growing up a Self-Obsessed Generation

Posted on August 2nd, 2011 by AZCategory: News, facebook, Tags: baroness greenfield, facebook growing up self-obsessed generation, facebook self-obsessed generation, facebook. facebook generation, oxford university research facebook, professor baroness greenfield, self-obsessed generation

Professor Baroness Greenfield, A well known scientist, of pharmacology at Oxford University indicated that Facebook is growing up a self-obsessed generation who have childlike desires and have concentration problems.

Prof. Baroness Greenfield believes that growth of social life on internet and as well as high use of computer games could effectively “rewire” the brain.

This can result in reduced concentration, a need for instant gratification and poor non-verbal skills, such as the ability to make eye contact during conversations.

Prof.Baroness Greenfield also a former director of research body of the Oxford University, said: “Why should someone be interested in what someone else has had for breakfast? It reminds me of a small child (saying): ‘Look at me Mummy, I’m doing this’, ‘Look at me Mummy I’m doing that’. It’s almost as if they’re in some kind of identity crisis. In a sense it’s keeping the brain in a sort of time warp.”

Prof. Greenfield continued: “Some Facebook users feel the need to become ‘mini celebrities’ who are watched and admired by others on a daily basis. They do things that are ‘Facebook worthy’ because the only way they can define themselves is by ‘people knowing about them’. It’s almost as if people are living in a world that’s not a real world, but a world where what counts is what people think of you or (if they) can click on you.”

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Facebook is Growing up a Self-Obsessed Generation

Posted on August 2nd, 2011 by AZCategory: News, facebook, Tags: baroness greenfield, facebook growing up self-obsessed generation, facebook self-obsessed generation, facebook. facebook generation, oxford university research facebook, professor baroness greenfield, self-obsessed generation

Professor Baroness Greenfield, A well known scientist, of pharmacology at Oxford University indicated that Facebook is growing up a self-obsessed generation who have childlike desires and have concentration problems.

Prof. Baroness Greenfield believes that growth of social life on internet and as well as high use of computer games could effectively “rewire” the brain.

This can result in reduced concentration, a need for instant gratification and poor non-verbal skills, such as the ability to make eye contact during conversations.

Prof.Baroness Greenfield also a former director of research body of the Oxford University, said: “Why should someone be interested in what someone else has had for breakfast? It reminds me of a small child (saying): ‘Look at me Mummy, I’m doing this’, ‘Look at me Mummy I’m doing that’. It’s almost as if they’re in some kind of identity crisis. In a sense it’s keeping the brain in a sort of time warp.”

Prof. Greenfield continued: “Some Facebook users feel the need to become ‘mini celebrities’ who are watched and admired by others on a daily basis. They do things that are ‘Facebook worthy’ because the only way they can define themselves is by ‘people knowing about them’. It’s almost as if people are living in a world that’s not a real world, but a world where what counts is what people think of you or (if they) can click on you.”

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Ever Wonder How Odd is Your Life on Facebook? [Video]

Posted on July 20th, 2011 by AZCategory: facebook, video, Tags: facebook, facebook in real life, facebook video, how odd is life on facebook, life on facebook

Ever wonder how odd is your life on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter? This is how much you going to hate yourself when you try your facebook life in real life. In fact it is true that sometime you spend so much time on social networking sites and you apply same lifestyles in your real life.

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55-Year old Unemployed Woman falls for a $500,000 Facebook Scam

Posted on June 13th, 2011 by AZCategory: News, facebook, Tags: facebook, facebook scam, older women on facebook, women on facebook, women scam on internet

A 55-year old woman who is unemployed because of her back injury problem falls for a $500,000 scam. It all started with a Facebook Wall message “You have Won”.

A woman, who doesn’t want to reveal her name, clicked on the message and she was told to send an email to the Facebook claims department with given code numbers. After some days she received an email with the message that she needs to transfer $544 to Trans Global Express Courier Service so she can recieve her $500,000 cheque. She did it via Western Union so she can get her enormous cheque couriered quick smart.

Later that night she received a call from a man who told her that she needs to transfer further $5000 to the British Immigration Tax Offices to clear her cheque.

She spoke to her daughter who told her its most probably a scam. Woman still went to her bank to get an application for bank loan as she doesn’t have enough money but didn’t filled it and send an email back to the scammer that she didn’t have enough money. She then went to Police station.

Woman said: “But I never filled it in. I emailed the people back and told them I didn’t have enough money.”

In her statement she said: “I was thinking, Oh God, someone is looking after me. I didn’t even enter any competition. I was overwhelmed. It’s all just so embarrassing. I just can’t believe I fell for it now. I’m not a gullible person.”

About the money, $544 she transfered via WU, Woman said: “I was told it was needed because it was such a large amount of money.”

Later after investigating Police issued a warning via press statement for others to not to fall for the scam.

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Proved that Facebook has been Messing up Relationships

Posted on February 23rd, 2011 by AZCategory: facebook, video, Tags: facebook and relationships, facebook messing up relationships, facebook ruins relationships, facebook sucks

Last week we have mentioned in our article how a survey revealed that facebook is ruining relationship and contributes to jealousy in relationships as well. Further we found some more videos on internet regarding this topic and now its been proved that facebook is playing important part in ruining relationships even those who are in favor to facebook cannot disagree on this.

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Is Facebook Really Bringing Friends Together?

Posted on August 5th, 2011 by AZCategory: Funny Images, facebook, Tags: facebook, facebook bringing friends together, facebook friendship, facebook in real, friends on facebook, real life vs social networking sites

Facebook with other similar kind of sites like myspace, twitter called themselves Social Networking Sites and now they are so big they can be consider as Social Media sites as well. However, the big question is “Is Facebook Really Bringing Friends Together?”

So many people who are addicted to facebook would answer in “yes” but many of us know that it is not true at all. In fact, In reality it is totally different. You are wasting too much time on some very un-important activities on facebook like sharing photos, poking each other and updating your status. In reality you can have more fun compare to your useless time on facebook like going out with friends and sharing your pictures in personal, Have fun time with your friends and for those who stays away, believe me, they will love you more when you call them via phone or skype(video call) instead of writing on their wall.

So, My answer would be, NO, Facebook is really taking away your friends from you instead of bringing them to you. So, Start living an actually fun loving life instead of wasting time on facebook.

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55-Year old Unemployed Woman falls for a $500,000 Facebook Scam

Posted on June 13th, 2011 by AZCategory: News, facebook, Tags: facebook, facebook scam, older women on facebook, women on facebook, women scam on internet

A 55-year old woman who is unemployed because of her back injury problem falls for a $500,000 scam. It all started with a Facebook Wall message “You have Won”.

A woman, who doesn’t want to reveal her name, clicked on the message and she was told to send an email to the Facebook claims department with given code numbers. After some days she received an email with the message that she needs to transfer $544 to Trans Global Express Courier Service so she can recieve her $500,000 cheque. She did it via Western Union so she can get her enormous cheque couriered quick smart.

Later that night she received a call from a man who told her that she needs to transfer further $5000 to the British Immigration Tax Offices to clear her cheque.

She spoke to her daughter who told her its most probably a scam. Woman still went to her bank to get an application for bank loan as she doesn’t have enough money but didn’t filled it and send an email back to the scammer that she didn’t have enough money. She then went to Police station.

Woman said: “But I never filled it in. I emailed the people back and told them I didn’t have enough money.”

In her statement she said: “I was thinking, Oh God, someone is looking after me. I didn’t even enter any competition. I was overwhelmed. It’s all just so embarrassing. I just can’t believe I fell for it now. I’m not a gullible person.”

About the money, $544 she transfered via WU, Woman said: “I was told it was needed because it was such a large amount of money.”

Later after investigating Police issued a warning via press statement for others to not to fall for the scam.

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Ever Wonder How Odd is Your Life on Facebook? [Video]

Posted on July 20th, 2011 by AZCategory: facebook, video, Tags: facebook, facebook in real life, facebook video, how odd is life on facebook, life on facebook

Ever wonder how odd is your life on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter? This is how much you going to hate yourself when you try your facebook life in real life. In fact it is true that sometime you spend so much time on social networking sites and you apply same lifestyles in your real life.

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