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The life of Facebook

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Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. One wonders why the name ‘Facebook’ was chosen by these brilliant minds despite the fact that this online community has nothing whatsoever to do with the dying […]


Facebook could fade out like a disease: researchers

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Facebook is like an infectious disease, experiencing a spike before its decline, according to US researchers who claim the social network will lose 80 percent of users by 2017. Two doctoral candidates in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University made their astonishing claims in a paper published online at a scientific research archive, but […]


Cyberstalking: new challenges

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ISLAMABAD: The country is catching up fast with the cyber world, a clue being the way cyber crime is becoming an issue. Reported misuse of the technology ranges from websites being hacked to forgery and financial fraud. But of the more than 30 registered offences that were committed through the internet, it is cyberstalking that […]