Facebook’s getting sketchier by the day. If ongoing privacy issues and profile whitening apps weren’t enough, now the social media giant has found a way to predict users’ ethnicity, reports SmartBlog. Their methods seem simple enough: combine U.S. Census data with a list of users’ first and last names. The team narrowed its analysis down […]
From MSN.com: The personal details of 100 million Facebook users have been collected and published online in a downloadable file, meaning they will now be unable to make their publicly available information private.
From Gawker.com: Everyone knows that white people love Facebook and hate MySpace. But why? In a sure-to-be-controversial new essay, a famous internet sociologist says it’s a lot like white flight.
