THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2010 WILL YOU QUIT FACEBOOK BECAUSE OF PRIVACY FEARS? A YES B NO Using your at&t phone, text your vote, A or B, to amNY (2669) Sexiest celebs exposed The ‘Secret’ list of bombshells Page 8 City Living: Sunnyside is a bright spot Pages 20-24 Unfriending ‘Robin Hood’ Misses target Page 10 Privacy concerns have some thinking about logging off — for good Page 2 YOU DON’T HAVE TO SPEND A LOT TO HAVE GOOD TASTE. 99 2-PIECE CHAISE SECTIONAL COVERED IN PLUSH MICROFIBER $ INCREDIBLE! JENNIFER SOFAS & SOFABEDS Color: 30 Beige Call 1-800-JENNIFER for all locations. Merchandise399 pickup may not be convenient or available in y our area. Delivery charg e additional. www.jenniferconvertibles.com 02 amNewYork THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2010 NEWS NY.com Briefs Funeral for Lena Horne to be held tomorrow Family and friends will gather tomorrow at St. Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church on Park Avenue at 10 a.m. for Lena Horne’s funeral, a spokesman said. The legendary Horne 92-year-old singer-actress died Sunday at a Manhattan hospital of heart failure. (AP) President to attend fundraiser in Big Apple President Barack Obama will be hitting the Big Apple today to attend a Democratic Congres- sional Campaign Committee fundraiser at the St. Regis Hotel in midtown. He’s expected to touch down at JFK at about 4:25 p.m. and leave around 8:30 p.m., said a White House staffer. Deactivating your Facebook account removes your profile from public view but still saves your information. (RJ MICKELSON/AMNY) Report: Lauer cheated, wife seeks divorce Matt Lauer reportedly is split- ting up with his Dutch-born model wife of 12 years amid accusations that the “Today” Facebook’s privacy woes show host has been cheating, according to RadarOnline.com. This wouldn’t be the first split Criticisms of social networking giant’s policies grow louder as some consider exiting for the couple. Annette Lauer filed for divorce in 2006 while pregnant with their third child. BY EMILY NGO The evolution of social networking len, 21, of Ridgewood. “I’m She withdrew the petition a [email protected] very tempted to drop my month later. (AMNY) Facebook.” Free Press, a media re- Psych test for mom who When it comes to privacy, USENET LIVE JOURNAL FRIENDSTER MYSPACE FACEBOOK form group, has started a tossed baby in Hudson the world’s most popular campaign urging people to 1980s-90s and 2002 2003 2004 social networking site may quit — admittedly a difficult Devi Silvia, the mother accused be putting its worst face Electronic SIX DEGREES The site Peaks from A campus task after years of building of throwing her 19-month-old forward. bulletin Late 1990s quickly 2006-08. sensation goes a profile. daughter into the Hudson River boards. becomes mainstream by Facebook’s increasingly Users create pages and “Facebook is the tool that before jumping in herself Tues- a hipster 2008. lax privacy settings are begin to connect in a “proto- keeps me connected with day, was undergoing a psycho- phenomenon. irking many of the web- Facebook” way. my old friends,” said Ray logical evaluation yesterday at site’s 400 million members, Sasaki, 24, of East Harlem. Elmhurst Hospital, officials said. sparking calls to log off for with enough data to do ef- Experts admitted there Silvia, 33, who was in stable good. Want to be Facebook-free? ficacious selling,” said tech isn’t a service that comes condition, has been charged “They’re basically giving a expert Shelly Palmer. close to rivaling Facebook with attempted murder. The Short term: Forever: take-it-or-leave-it choice to Such efforts, however, in membership and conve- hospital would not comment on • Click • Go to “Help Center” and users. Well, users are leav- “Deactivate” enter “permanently delete” seem to be turning nience. the toddler’s condition. ing, and taking all their in- under “Account in search bar for link to members off. Google Facebook founder formation with them,” said Settings.” submit request. (Yes, it’s that searches on how to Mark Zuckerberg has Guilty plea for man seen Ari Schwartz, vice president • Profile no roundabout.) delete Facebook defended his com- kicking dog in video of the Center for Democracy longer appears • Profile is saved for 14 accounts have sky- pany’s evolution, last & Technology, which moni- on Facebook, days before deletion, just in rocketed, four U.S. month saying, “We Chris Grant was sentenced to tors Internet privacy. but information is saved so case you change your mind. senators last month are building toward a three months in jail after plead- The debate has become you can reactivate later. (EMILY NGO) sent a letter to the Zuckerberg Web where the default ing guilty Tuesday to kicking his so heated that Facebook has company denounc- is social.” girlfriend’s lap dog in an attack scheduled a company-wide sonalization” service, which personal details with Yelp.” ing new privacy settings, Facebook officials did police witnessed on security meeting on privacy today at automatically feeds users’ The six-year-old site is and multiple lawsuits have not respond to requests for cameras installed in a Harlem its California headquarters, profile info to third-party just trying to make a buck, been filed against Facebook. comment yesterday. apartment building elevator. according to allfacebook. partners such as Yelp. others said. “I don’t like it at all when “You can’t say they weren’t The cameras captured Grant, 21, com, a leading Facebook “That’s not what people “Facebook is just trying my conversations are seen warned,” Schwartz said. patting his knees as if to invite resource blog. signed up for originally,” to become a more profit- by others, but I have more “Trust is key to what they the 12-pound Chihuahua and The most contentious of Schwartz said. “They didn’t able company and trying to concerns about my personal do, and losing that is going Pomeranian mix, named Chuvi- recent Facebook tweaks think their friend from camp put themselves in a situa- information being sent to to hurt what they do.” Duvi, to be petted, then involves the “instant per- would be sharing their tion to provide advertisers other sites,” said Matt Al- Robert Levin contributed to this story. kicking it. (AP) THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2010 amNewYork 03 NY.com NEWS Leave workers’ wages alone, judge tells guv A federal judge yesterday loughs, which were to start accused the Democrat of hy- temporarily blocked Gov. Monday. pocrisy for promoting some David Paterson’s order to “The state work force will of his staff while he tried to furlough 100,000 state not be making any sacrifice, impose furloughs. workers, saying that the and that’s unfortunate,” Pat- The governor’s office said employees would be “irrepa- erson said in reaction raises of between rably harmed” by the loss in to U.S. District Judge $5,000 and $10,000 wages. Lawrence Kahn’s to four press aides Paterson had proposed a decision. will be shelved. forced unpaid day off each Paterson also did “We’re not going week for “nonessential” an about-face yes- to let this become a workers as legislators con- terday, reluctantly distraction,” Paterson tend with a $9.2 billion state rescinding raises to Paterson Communications Di- deficit and a budget agree- some staff after his rector Morgan Hook ment that is more than 40 decision to give pay hikes said yesterday. “We’re going days overdue. The governor to members of his press of- to do what is not the right calculated a weekly savings fice became tabloid fodder. thing and pull back these of $30 million from the fur- Public employee unions had promotions.” (AMNY/AP) starts today Handmade Rug Sale 6O% off reg. prices +extra2O%offsale prices Our beautiful handmade rugs from around the world are in stock and ready to go! 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