{"id":5246,"date":"2010-07-28T12:50:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T17:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhgrealestateblog.com\/?p=5246"},"modified":"2024-12-30T11:24:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T16:24:59","slug":"the-report-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhgrecareer.com\/bebetterblog\/the-report-13\/","title":{"rendered":"The REport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The amplitude of the Internet was proven once again last weekend when <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/07\/25\/wikileaks-afghan-war-diary\/\">WikiLeaks <\/a>released approximately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/greenslade\/2010\/jul\/26\/press-freedom-wikileaks\">92,000 classified documents<\/a> on the war in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2010-07-25-afghanistan-leaked-records_N.htm?csp=34news\">Afghanistan<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Editorial-Board-Blog\/2010\/0726\/White-House-WikiLeaks-reports-about-Afghanistan-harm-national-security\">White House officials<\/a> are no doubt revisiting their handling of classified documents in light of this.\u00a0 What is your policy on protecting important business files from ending up on the Internet?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">What a contradiction!\u00a0 Just as <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2010\/07\/25\/tech-tweets-of-the-week-facebook-flipboard-and-phones\/\">Facebook<\/a> officially reached <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13577_3-20011158-36.html\">500 million users,<\/a> it also received an \u201cabysmal\u201d rating (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9179378\/Update_Facebook_user_satisfaction_abysmal_\">64 out of 100<\/a>) on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/mashable\/20100720\/tc_mashable\/facebook_among_webs_worst_in_customer_satisfaction_survey\">2010 American Customer Survey Index, <\/a>which measured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/?fa=Articles.showArticle&amp;art_aid=132319\">30 online companies<\/a>. Respondents cited privacy, commercialization of the site and technology changes as the primary reasons causing discontent. \u00a0What score would you give the site?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking of Facebook, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/07\/22\/facebook-facts\/\">Mashable<\/a> published a list of fascinating facts on the social network. Among them, the average user has 130 friends and California is the most social state. 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