John Prescott saved my life has a funny ring to it. And he didn't exactly rescue Josie Hall, but when a television company found the 17-year-old on Facebook and drove the former deputy prime minister to her home in south-east London, something definitely changed. As anyone who watched the first episode of Prescott: The Class System and Me knows, Josie and John hit it off. At first they bonded...
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Guardian on 4th Nov 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
Former deputy prime minister John Prescott has launched an online campaign on social networking site Facebook to stop executive remuneration in failing banks.
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PoliticsCoUk on 9th Feb 2009 (via politics.co.uk)
Prime Minister Ivo Sanader says the officers who detained two men who criticized him on Facebook should be punished if they made errors.
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InternationalHeraldTribune on 3rd Dec 2008 (via iht.com)
News yesterday that culture secretary Andy Burnham left restricted documents on a train at Euston reminded me of a joke cracked by John Prescott at an Operation Black Vote event I was at last week on activism and the blogosphere. The ex-Deputy Prime Minister and born again convert to all things tech-y with 4,000 young Facebook
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RupaHuq on 22nd Apr 2009 (via rupahuq.wordpress.com)
Unions are increasingly turning to tools like Facebook. But there is also a growing awareness of the problems with such social networks. Groups and causes one sets up on Facebook do not belong to you. Facebook can, and does, close... Eric Lee
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According to Facebook: "The following website has been identified as malicious:lukeakehurst.blogspot.The link you have clicked has been identified by Facebook as a malicious web site. For the safety and privacy of your Facebook account, we strongly suggest you avoid visiting this address."
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LukeAkehurst on 16th Oct 2008 (via lukeakehurst.blogspot.com)
At long last, after being registered on Facebook for two years, I have found something that Facebook is actually useful for ! Hat Tip to : Things and Stuff
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NorfolkBlogger on 3rd Dec 2008 (via norfolkblogger.blogspot.com)
May’s edition of Total Politics carries part one of a two part series from me about how people in politics can get the most out of Facebook. Liberal Democrat Voice has covered many aspects of Facebook in the past, including tips for keeping on top of your notifications and Steve Webb’s innovative Facebook surgery, but what
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 1st May 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
The social networking site Facebook is the target of the latest Islamo-seethe fest. A group claiming to represent 2.5 million Muslim Facebook users says they're going to leave Facebook and jump to a low rent Muslim imitator called Madina.com unless four pages Facebook removed are reinstated and their additional demands are met. The four pages were: * Facebook.com/Rassoul.Allaah * Facebook.com...
Croatia is due to join the EU and is next in line Today, someone started a Facebook Group called “"I bet I can find 5,000 people who dislike Prime Minister Sanader". Today, 60,000 Croatians signed up to join that Facebook Group Today, the person who started the Facebook Group was arrested. Apparently, the Prime Minister knew nothing about it and the Police were "acting on their own initiativ...
I recently shut down my Facebook account; as far as I can see it is impossible to delete it as the site does not provide the wherewithal to allow me to do so. The problems I have with Facebook are two fold and they both revolve around privacy. The fact I was unable to delete my Facebook account speaks volumes about its attitude to its clients privacy. Facebook is a multi national corpor...
