The Facecrooks featured this week definitely took a turn for the worse when compared to last week's scoundrels! The good news is that authorities have busted a global child pornography ring and have made several arrests - the bad news is that Facebook shut down many of the pages distributing the kiddie porn, but failed to pass that information along to the police. Check out our Weekly Roundup for more information on this story and other mainstream news stories. Below is a listing of the top Facecrooks of the week taken from our Wall of Shame: Man trashes former partner'?s…

  Our featured story last week involved Facebook Places and its privacy and safety implications for Facebook users. "Places" was again front and center this week as social media pundits, privacy experts and technology gurus all put their 2 cents in on the issue. The general consensus is that Facebook did a little better job in implementing this feature, but privacy advocates still find room…

Good Morning Facecrooks! As usual, there were a few people behaving badly on Facebook this past week. Thankfully, the "Facecrooks" this week only involved minor infractions and nothing too sinister. Below is a listing of the top Facecrooks taken from our Wall of Shame: Teacher resigns over Facebook posts Dr. June Talvitie-Siple, a math and science teacher at Cohasset High School in Massachusetts learned a Facebook lesson the hard way. She made derogatory comments about citizens and students on Facebook, and it has cost her her job.  Read More Welfare cheat outed by Facebook Kim Stokes, 36, of Telford, western…

Facebook Places Well, we've made it through another week! The word on the street this week was the impending announcement of Facebook's location based features being released, and Facebook didn't disappoint. Learning from past mistakes, the default setting for Places is "friends only". If you want to totally opt out of Places, then check out our blog post: Facebook Places - The Good, The Bad…