facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
California reaches a $50M settlement with Meta to resolve claims that Facebook users were misled about their ability to limit who could see personal details (The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/19/facebook-users-dec…
Old enough to remember 2013-02-07 when any web page that included a Facebook-supplied javascript resource (to enable the, once ubiquitous, Facebook Connect) redirected users to Facebook.
(It's the event that most informed my suspicion in using third-party javascript - without SRI.)
It's 2025: Facebook is retiring external like buttons, but Cloudflare is breaking captchas.
Similarweb: TikTok had 183M US MAUs on iOS and Android in August 2025, up 16% YoY, vs. Instagram's 169M, Facebook's 157M, Pinterest's 100M, and Snapchat's 70M (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/by-some-mea
facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 320 nodes and 2369 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
Meta stellt den Facebook Messenger für Windows und Mac ein
Die eigenständige App des Facebook Messengers für Windows und Mac wird noch in diesem Jahr eingestellt. Das hat Meta bestätigt.
https://www.
Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts and Pages to posting just two links per month, unless they subscribe to $14.99 /month Meta Verified (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/facebook-is-te…
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Nicht neues OS: FSFs LibrePhone-Projekt will Android befreien