10 minutes on facebook, all you need.
We all know that facebook and other social media sites can take up alot of time. I’m going to tell you how you can check your facebook in 10 minutes.
1. Log in, and change your status.
As soon as I log into facebook I change my status. I’ll make it something that does not need to change withing the next couple of hours. So i won’t say I’m finishing work in 1 hour. But I’ll say “I’l looking foreward to what I’m doing tonight.” or “I’m working on my blog, check it out: gitui.com”
2. Check your messages.
checking your messages is like checking your mail. I don’t know about you, but I just scan over my emails sometimes, I don’t always read them. The same goes for my Facebook messages. If It’s from someone advertising a concert or something similar, I skip over it.
3. Check your events
Check out the events that are happening and make sure you acknowledge birthdays. Parties and invitations. Take a few moments to scroll through the events and see if any are of interest to you.
4. Go over your friends status.
Have a look at what your friends are up to. Thats what facebook is all about right? skim over them and leavea a quick comment or two.
5. Accept, or reject friends.
I get a friend request every now and then, but not all of them I accept, Alot of them I reject, because I don’t know who they are. If you take only a minute to see who wants to be your friend, you can safe alot of time.
Friendly facebook warning
FACEBOOK users are under attack from a virus sweeping through the online social network.
The virus is technically a trojan worm that disguises itself as an email from facebookmail.com.
People are enticed to click on a misspelled video or picture link that directs to a malicious web site.
The title of the dodgy links vary from “Maan,yyou’re great!” to “your ass looks not bad in this video”, “Some0ne thinks your special and has a *Hot_Crush* on you. Find out who it could be*” or a youtube link that says ‘”i can see yooooooooo”.
The worm spreads its tentacles by emailing everyone on the victim’s friend list.
According to anti-virus software company Symantec, the trojan works by executing a worm called W32.Koobface.A that searches for cookies on the user’s machine.
If the worm finds the appropriate Facebook cookie, it modifies the users account settings and profile - adding links to malicious sites to trick others into installing the invader.
Facebook discussion boards talk about the trojan directing users to a page which looks like YouTube.
The phoney page asks the user to install a video player upgrade.
Installing the fake upgrade allows the worm to work its magic and access files on the victim’s machine while destroying their Facebook account.
The trojan comes just months after Facebook said it was working to protect its user from phishing scams.
Facebook has begun combating the virus by deactivating link when it can.
Facebook has not released an official comment regarding the attack.
The world is a small place
I Stumbled across a blog the other day, Stephen Murray’s blog.
Quite an interesting blog. While I was chatting to my dad this morning it turns out that he is an old friend of my Dad. So I logged into facebook and had a look at his profile.
While looking at his profile, I had a look at his friends list, and the friends we have in common. It turns out he knows my pastor, my Dad and even my cousin.
that got me thinking. The world is a very small place and gets smaller with the expanding internet. With Facebook, we have contact with just about anyone in the world. I find that the business world its just as small. I do ongoing work for a company and have built a really good relationship with them. While I was chatting to he MD the other day, I found out that he knows the owner another company that I do work for.
A lady that works there gave my number to one of her friends, When I got to the other company, I found out that they sold property to one of my other clients.
I was quite freaked out about the whole ordeal.
Whats my point?
No matter where in the world you go, online or offline. You can always find someone you know, or that knows you from someone else.
I believe that in business, its not what you know, but who you know. So if you tell the right person what your business ideas are, more people will know about it than you think. Word of mouth is the best kind of advertising.
Hacking Facebook.
I found this post on a blog the other day:
So Byron Ng isn’t a real Facebook hacker. But apparently it isn’t hard to become one, if you’ve got any technical skills at all. Hacking Facebook is a cottage Industry, with hundreds or thousands of unpaid workers beavering away. The video below shows how to monkey with your friends “Moods” app — in less than 1 minute.
Right now the worst case-scenario for Facebook apps usually means someone’s private photos get exposed — and even the most gullible Facebook user there’s no such thing as true privacy on the Web. (Right?) But as Facebook gets more ambitious — see its upcoming PayPal-like currency — that’s going to change.Is Facebook easier to hack than other sites of similar size? How about compared to other social networks? And if so, what should Zuckerberg & Co. do about it? Let us know in comments.
And thought it was quite interesting. have a look: Alleyinsider
Do you have any thoughts of Facebook being hacked? Do you think that its really safe to use facebook if it can be hacked so easily?
myspace / facebook virus
For all you carefull people out there, here is another virus warning for you:
New worms target both MySpace and Facebook users
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, has detected two variants of a new worm, Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a. and Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b, which attack MySpace and Facebook respectively. As part of their malicious payload, the worms transform victim machines into zombie computers to form botnets.
Even though the worms are currently only infecting MySpace and Facebook users, Kaspersky Lab analysts are warning users that the worms are designed to upload additional malicious modules with other functionality via the Internet. It is highly probable that victim machines will not only be used for spreading links via these social networking sites, but the botnets will also be used for other malicious purposes.
Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a spreads when a user accesses his/her MySpace account. The worm creates a range of commentaries to friends’ accounts. Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b, which targets Facebook users, creates spam messages and sends them to the infected users’ friends via the Facebook site. The messages and comments include texts such as Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street; Examiners Caught Downloading Grades From The Internet; Hello; You must see it!!! LOL. My friend catched you on hidden cam; Is it really celebrity? Funny Moments and many others.
Messages and comments on MySpace and Facebook include links to http://youtube.[skip].pl. If the user clicks on this link, s/he is redirected to http://youtube.[skip].ru, a site which purportedly contains a video clip. If the user tries to watch it, a message appears saying that s/he needs the latest version of Flash Player in order to watch the clip. However, instead of the latest version of Flash Player, a file called codecsetup.exe is downloaded to the victim machine; this file is also a network worm. The result is that users who have come to the site via Facebook will have the MySpace worm downloaded to their machines, and vice versa.
“Unfortunately, users are very trusting of messages left by ‘friends’ on social networking sites. So the likelihood of a user clicking on a link like this is very high”, says Alexander Gostev, Senior Virus Analyst at Kaspersky Lab. “At the beginning of 2008 we predicted that we’d see an increase in cybercriminals exploiting MySpace, Facebook and similar sites, and we’re now seeing evidence of this. I’m sure that this is simply the first step, and that virus writers will continue to target these resources with increased intensity”.
Kaspersky Internet Security detected these threats proactively and signatures were added to the database on July 31, 2008.
Good luck to those who has already been hit.
