May 31 has been declared ‘Quit Facebook Day’. Growing concerns over privacy issues and what Facebook does with its users data has prompted Matthew Milan and Joseph Dee to launch a campaign against the social networking giant, claiming that they “don’t think Facebook has much respect for you or your data, especially in the context of the future”. At the time of writing, 13898 people have ‘committed’ to quitting Facebook.

So, with this recent wake of privacy concerns and general distrust of Facebook, will you be quitting? And if you’re not, what are you doing to keep your data safe? Let us know in the comments, and I’ll put together a guide on keeping your information safe based on your ideas.

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Facebook has long been ‘the’ social networking site. Ever since the site crushed rival Myspace early in 2009, the site has been growing stronger, offering great features, connections with long lost friends, an amazing array of applications, a unified design and complete privacy control. When Mark Zuckerberg’s brainchild launched in 2004 (only to Harvard students at the time), it promised that everything that went on your Facebook, was for you and your friends eyes only: if you put something up, you had complete control over who could see it. This extremely attractive promise must have been enticing for many, and probably contributed to the site’s 400 million-strong user base. (more…)

Sixteen year-old Lane New  is suing his mother, Denise New, over claims she hacked his Facebook account, changed his password and posted slanderous remarks about her son.

Denise claims that her son had forgotten to log of the popular social networking site Facebook after using her computer. She was going to log out of the site, but after reading that her son had driven at 95mph, she instead changed her son’s password and started posting derogatory status updates about her son.

Lane filed a harassment complaint in the Clark County Prosecutor’s Office on March 26. A statement has been issued saying the woman’s alleged statements about her son justified the harassment charge, however Prosecutor Todd Turner has declined to comment further.

Denise still claims, however, that she is in the right, and has done nothing wrong. She says that “You’re within your legal rights to monitor your child and to have a conversation with your child on Facebook whether it’s his account, or your account or whoever’s account”.

She will face a hearing at the Clark County Courthouse on May 12.

Lane filed harassment charges on March 26; Denise faces a hearing at the Clark County Courthouse on May 12.

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