A WOMAN from Hove, East Sussex, was burgled last week by a man so odious he used her stolen laptop to taunt his victim on her own Facebook page.

Victoria Richardson, 42, lost her Tosh laptop and other possessions in the burglary, including current swag bag favourites an Iphone and a Nintendo DS games handheld, along with her purse containing cash and debit cards.

If that wasn’t bad enough the burglar then logged into her Facebook account using the laptop and left several gittish messages including “on my new laptop” and “Listening to music on my new phone feels so good.”

Further demonstrating what an intelligent and discerning young man he is, the burglar added, “I have the laptop, phones ok but a bit scratched itll [sic] do, tv was rubbish so I left it, ds was a bonus, now to the porn shop, thankyou toshiba is my favourite make. regards your night time burglar”.

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Victoria Richardson, 42, from Hove, East Sussex, was burgled last week, losing an iPhone, a Nintendo DS games console, a handbag containing a purse, cash and debit cards and a black Toshiba laptop.

When she later logged into her Facebook account she found the burglar who had rifled through her belongings had also invaded her Facebook account.

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I guess facebook finally gave up on buying twitter, can we really call friendfeed, second best or will facebook finally dominate twitter with the help of new friend.

Just Image Myspace(Newscorp=Rupert Murdock) turn round and decide to buy twitter…

Social Networking sites don’t get more exciting..

The Reign of Facefeed.

Financial details are still not been released

Top Brands in the US are using facebook to promote their brands, brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola and Starbucks
Sources from facebook says that the social networking site Giant attract 83 out of 100 top advertisers spenders in the US, even signing several partnerships with others such as commercials.

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Australia are to use two most popular social networking site in warning people about bushfires, especially resident of towns in victoria state where 173 people were killed from the devasting incident where they said they had no warning of the attack.

Victorian state premier John Brumby says social networking sites on the internet will help to improve advice to households.

“We’ll be providing more information to the community, like Twitter and Facebook – alternative means of communication to get the information out to the public,” Mr Brumby said.

“So that they’ve got better information from a variety of sources and if they need to make a judgement to go early, they will go and they will go early,” he added.

Facebook will be allowing its members to set and adjust their privacy settings for any piece of content they post on the site.

The changes follow the recent announcement of new settings for publishing content that allow you to choose to post items that everyone, not just your friends, can see. Many see both moves in part as Facebook’s attempt to blunt the rapid rise of microblogging service Twitter.

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Check on facebook’s Blog for more info

I Can’t wait till july 14 to get my copy, it looks like an interesting read..

What do you think??

Now, I’m sure you all know who he is, and if not, im sure you all use the social networking site called facebook, well, he and his buddies created that website.

Let’s look at 5 things you should know about mark

Mark is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur, he is also the CEO of Facebook.

Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room on February 4, 2004.

On October 24, 2007, Facebook Inc. sold a 1.6% stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million, evaluating facebbok at $15 billion at the time of the sale.

In 2008, Forbes ranked Zuckerberg as the 321st richest person in the United States, with a net worth of $1.5 billion. He is the youngest person ever to appear on the Forbes 400.

Time Magazine added Zuckerberg as one of The World’s Most Influential People of 2008.

Apparently facebook are asking users if they want their comments to go public, To my suprise, few users are relishing the opportunity, How would you feel if facebook takes your information everything you update your status “what’s on your mind”

From the 24th of june, facebook started testing the new feature…
Let me know what you think about this, would you mind?

Beet Tv covers the story–In their HEADLINE, IT READS…
MySpace Has been a “Calamity for News Corp,” Michael Wolff

Michael Wolff, who has written a much talked about book about Rupert Murdoch and the rise of News Corp, sees MySpace in a downward spiral. In this interview with Beet.TV, he calls the acquisition of the social media site a “relative calamity for News Corp.” because the giant media company “knows nothing about technology.” On stage with Andy Lack, the head of multimedia for Bloomberg, he said the valuation of MySpace would be somewhere around $600 million, about the purchase price.
Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

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