A man called Dana Hanna, who is employed like architects’ chief at an Internet place on pets, has hung on Internet a video in which it is appreciated clearly as it interrupts his wedding along with his fiancée this way to update the sentimental situation both in Facebook and in Twitter.

Apparently it is the first time that a similar fact happens, here if there is applied this saying that he says “do not leave for tomorrow what you can already do!!”

Puncture here to see the video

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In Colombia there has been detained a young accused to threaten one of the children with the president Alvaro Uribe.

Nicolás Castro, a 23-year-old university student, was apparently the creator on July 9 of the group that it was named “I promise to kill Jerónimo Alberto Uribe, son of Alvaro Uribe”.

The Head office of Intelligence of Colombia and the Judicial Police, with the support of the FBI, they traced the direction IP of the computer where from he gained access to the page of the social network to create the group, which was deactivated some hours later by request of the authorities.

“The pursuit allowed to the authorities to come up to the student involved in the case that was not ignored by the safety services taken charge of the protection of Uribe and of his family”, said to Reuters an official of the police.

Castro’s apprehension took place on Tuesday in the night in Chía, a city located to approximately 25 kilometers to the north of Bogota.

“It was an opinion that I exhibited in the group and it was an error”, the accused declared journalists before being presented before a judge under instigation charges to commit an offense for the one that might receive a condemnation of between 80 and 180 months of jail, in addition to a millionaire fine.

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Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the social network Facebook, has expressed a bulletin in which there are detailed some changes that they will realize as for the control of privacy of the users.

“We have centred on giving you the necessary hardware to share and to control your information”, affirms Zuckerberg. But his creators want to come even more background and try to reinforce the privacy of the system.

The current privacy model is binding with the work, the studies or the place of origin. “This exposition was working well when most of users of Facebook were students, since it was logical that they wanted to share content with study partners”. Pero Facebook has penetrated borders coming to all the sectors of the population and to all the places of the world.

Therefore “we have come to the conclusion that this format is not the most suitable so that our users have the control of his privacy” for the magnitude of the social set that it lodges. “Our plan is to eliminate completely the regional networks and to create a simpler model for the control of the privacy“. Also, the users will be able to know who sees his created or loaded files one for one.

All this will be carried out in the next weeks, where every user will have to update the configuration of his privacy.

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Social networks as Facebook and MysPace, walk being employed arduously at the fulfillment of a law in New York, which demands to finish with all the harassing sexual ones that filter in Internet across these small and novel communication channels.

Until now and in fulfillment of this law, more than 5.385 bullies’ accounts have been blocked, what means that the work that one has come developing has been satisfactory. This does not mean that all the sexual delinquents of New York have already been eliminated, but if it is an encouraging number that at least reflects work and sure effort to the users of each of these networks.

According to recent numbers, Facebook has closed more than 3.410 accounts to delinquents, while his rival MySpace reaches 1.975 blocked accounts.

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Source: News on Facebook

Social networks as Facebook and MysPace, walk being employed arduously at the fulfillment of a law in New York, which demands to finish with all the harassing sexual ones that filter in Internet across these small and novel communication channels.

Until now and in fulfillment of this law, more than 5.385 bullies’ accounts have been blocked, what means that the work that one has come developing has been satisfactory. This does not mean that all the sexual delinquents of New York have already been eliminated, but if it is an encouraging number that at least reflects work and sure effort to the users of each of these networks.

According to recent numbers, Facebook has closed more than 3.410 accounts to delinquents, while his rival MySpace reaches 1.975 blocked accounts.

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Source: News on Facebook

In order to analyze the patterns of search of the users of Facebook a study has gone forward to identify the most popular pages of the social network.

More than 600.000 commercial pages were analyzed in order to find the use patterns. Some of the aspects that have been born in mind in this investigation are the popularity, the quantity of released content, the number of followers and the categories.

After the analysis, the position of “more popular” in Facebook has been clear: the page of Michael Jackson is the most followed of the network with more than 10 million fans. That of actor Vin Diesel follows him, with seven million fans, and that of Obama, with 6,9 millions.

In a discreet one the fourth and fifth position in the ranking of the most followed, finds the Facebook page, with almost six million fans (5,8) and that of the polemic actress Megan Fox, with 5,1 million fans.

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In the United States, they were attacked seven red-haired children were attacked, physics or verbally across Internet, in a school of California (west) by other adolescents seemingly inspired on a page of Facebook, indicated the police, which stopped three children.

The page of the popular place of socialization was inviting to celebrate, on November 20, the “national Day: it strikes a red-haired one” (”Kick to Ginger Day”).
The sherif of Lost Hills indicated that it stopped three 13 and 12-year-old males accused in one of the cases of threats across Internet and in others two of blows inside the school.

Four children and three girls were an attacks object because they were red-haired in Wright Middle School.

The incident seems to have been provoked, according to the police, by an episode in the animated television program “South Park“ in which a personage says that the red-haired ones are beings “without soul” and “diabolical“.
On the Facebook page, dozens of children had left messages affirming that they had realized aggressions. AFP

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Source: News on Facebook

In the United States, they were attacked seven red-haired children were attacked, physics or verbally across Internet, in a school of California (west) by other adolescents seemingly inspired on a page of Facebook, indicated the police, which stopped three children.

The page of the popular place of socialization was inviting to celebrate, on November 20, the “national Day: it strikes a red-haired one” (”Kick to Ginger Day”).
The sherif of Lost Hills indicated that it stopped three 13 and 12-year-old males accused in one of the cases of threats across Internet and in others two of blows inside the school.

Four children and three girls were an attacks object because they were red-haired in Wright Middle School.

The incident seems to have been provoked, according to the police, by an episode in the animated television program “South Park“ in which a personage says that the red-haired ones are beings “without soul” and “diabolical“.
On the Facebook page, dozens of children had left messages affirming that they had realized aggressions. AFP

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Source: News on Facebook

Facebook is for experts in Open Social Learning (open social learning) the way adapted in the learning processes.

In a bulletin, the center reported that the persons in charge of the pilot course ‘Trips 2.0 ′ – realized across Facebook – have evaluated positively the experience. Also, 66 % of the pupils assured to have learned from the contributions of his partners.

More than 80 % of the students, thought that the characteristics of this network favor the motivation for learning and for the participation, and 75 % changed his vision of how using the Facebook.

With this, the UOC proved a learning model in a virtual environment opened in Internet and based on the use of open educational resources and on a methodology invigorated by means of the interaction of social networks.

The students of this course have taken part in a formation process on a concrete topic, with what they have analyzed as the social construction of the knowledge takes place, as well as his advantages and disadvantages.

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Source: News on Facebook

Facebook is for experts in Open Social Learning (open social learning) the way adapted in the learning processes.

In a bulletin, the center reported that the persons in charge of the pilot course ‘Trips 2.0 ′ – realized across Facebook – have evaluated positively the experience. Also, 66 % of the pupils assured to have learned from the contributions of his partners.

More than 80 % of the students, thought that the characteristics of this network favor the motivation for learning and for the participation, and 75 % changed his vision of how using the Facebook.

With this, the UOC proved a learning model in a virtual environment opened in Internet and based on the use of open educational resources and on a methodology invigorated by means of the interaction of social networks.

The students of this course have taken part in a formation process on a concrete topic, with what they have analyzed as the social construction of the knowledge takes place, as well as his advantages and disadvantages.

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Source: News on Facebook