Myspace and Facebook are quickly becoming the safe haven for the hackers and spammers. This is a classic example of using a 800 pounder gorillas weight against it to put it down. Social networking brings people together, but at the same time exposes people you know to many risks such as viruses. Responsible surfing would be necessary these days, but how even that does not guarantee that your myspace or Facebook account won’t be hacked. Here is another story on myspace pages getting hacked.
The moral of story is, hackers and online trolls won’t stop doing what they are doing anytime soon. Taking extra care would be mandatory at this point to prevent exposing yourself and your “friends” to unnecessary risks.
myspace is in the mood for fun these days. With their Beta “comedy central” going on in multiple markets, myspace is trying to expand its horizon and reach a larger base of audience. Currently, myspace is running a competition online where people upload videos and the winner will get 250,000 british pounds (that’s like $250 mil the way dollas is dropping). This whole deal is going down in the U.K right now but I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried similar ideas in U.S. markets soon.
It’s amazing that people can get to interact with sites such as myspace even from the jail. A convicted murderer had his chance to go Web 2.0 by having photos of him taken with his buddies inside the jail. Fortunately, myspace.com did the right thing and took down the pictures. But the way we are moving forward with this Web 2.0 phenomenon, one would wonder what’s next. Twittering from jail?
myspace is setting new standards when it comes to dealing with its employees. According to CNET, myspace has hired 5 VP/SVPs to ramp up their operations on multiple fronts (e.g. customer service, engineering). At the very same time, myspace is planning to lay off 5% of its workforce. myspace has been struggling for quite sometime and rumors were going around that News Corp tried really hard to get rid of myspace during the Yahoo! - Microsoft saga. But as far as their latest decision is concerned, I guess 5 new executives are getting paid much if not more than 5% of myspace’s workforce or maybe it’s just a coincidence.
This doesn’t happen often, but it’s happening more than before. First it was the employers checking what job candidates had to say on FaceBook. Now it’s the police checking MySpace pages to find clues on how to solve cases. I understand that people get cute on FaceBook and pay for it, but why would you put your last minutes on MySpace and not use that time to call the police. Maybe one reason for that would be the busy 911 lines. Maybe the police force needs to become more responsive to emergency calls, like those from people who are dying!
