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We’re used to hearing about people spreading colds and flu. But according to a new study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, there’s another human condition that’s equally contagious: loneliness. Complete Story...
A judge has ordered three years probation for a black man who posed as a white supremacist upset by President Barack Obama's election and sent racist death threats to black college students.
A British medical organization that advises doctors on avoiding malpractice cases is warning them not to respond to messages from patients on social networking sites such as Facebook.
Yahoo Inc. will lean more heavily on Facebook's popularity as it tries to give people more reasons to stay on its Web site.
Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give founder Mark Zuckerberg and other existing shareholders control over the company.
A Canadian woman on sick leave for depression said Monday she would fight an insurance company's decision to cut her benefits after her agent found photos on Facebook of her vacationing, at a bar and at a party.
A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having fun.
JPMorgan Chase is letting Facebook users help decide how to give away $5 million.
Users of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles can now brag about their achievements on Facebook as both systems integrate the social network this week.
Vietnam's growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country's communist government might be blocking the popular social networking Web site, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks.
Unlike the immersive social network games making all the news and money these days, you don’t need any special skills to build a one-off Facebook quiz. And it shows. America’s favorite social networking site is chock full of homemade quizzes with the kind of egregious spelling and grammatical errors that would make your fifth-grade language arts teacher positively apoplectic.
A 19-year-old New York City man arrested on robbery charges has been exonerated thanks to his Facebook page.
Facebook was hit on Tuesday by a well-meaning intruder who took over some of the site's online groups as a way of sending a message: "Think about the safety in your social media life to the same extent you do in your real life."
Seriously? You’d do that? You’d totally provide your personal information to yet another third-party application in trade for “free” coins to use in that virtual sharecrop you’ve got going over on Facebook? Do you really want a pig that bad?
Facebook said Thursday a California court has awarded the social networking Web site $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace.
The only thing constant about change is that it sucks.
Worried about missing a birth announcement, or details on what your portly uncle had for lunch?
Facebook will soon allow friends to send each other 10-cent Web songs to stream online or 90-cent songs in the MP3 format that recipients can download as gifts from online retailer Lala.
The memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page, hoping that the popular social networking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi death camp and the Holocaust.
Well, it’s happened. They’ve finally arrested someone for egregious poking on Facebook.
Maxi Sopo was living the dream of a fugitive abroad, kicking back on the beaches of Cancun by day, partying in the clubs by night.
Your employer may soon want to muscle in on your Twitter followers and Facebook friends.
One day soon, our society will be ruled by an all-intrusive advertising technique in which individuals are paid to walk around 24/7 holding a product next to their wide-smiling faces.
High school sucks. Did you forget? Don’t believe it? Check out Facebook.
Sites deny sex offenders accessThousands of sex offenders no longer have access to Facebook and MySpace. The popular social networking sites are working with law enforcement to keep convicted sex offenders out of the loop.
Groom Halts Wedding For Twitter Update (Video)Social networking gets in the way of matrimony Groom takes time to make it 'official' on Facebook and Twitter before finalizing wedding with his wife. As you can expect, the video has been quite a hit on YouTube.com.
Police spend £3000 on models to help with drink drive campaignPOLICE are spending thousands of pounds to hire leggy models to take photos of Christmas revellers - in a bid to stop drink driving. Despite a budget deficit of £16million, Strathclyde Police are shelling out £3000 for models from Pix Angels to help crack down on crime.
Online addicts' grades suffer IF YOU think that spending too much time on the computer is bad for your grades - well, it is.
Two million people use their gaming console to log onto social network in one weekMore than two million people have logged onto their Facebook accounts via Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console in the last week.
The 10 Most Annoying Things About FacebookSure, Facebook can be a lot of fun. It's a great way to reconnect with lost friends and to keep up with what people on the fringes of your social circle are up to. And as far as workday distractions go, there's nothing better.
Married RE teacher jailed after seducing schoolboy, 15, on FacebookA married teacher who had sex with one of her 15-year-old pupils after seducing him on Facebook has been jailed.
Courtney Love says Britney Spear's Father Molested Britney"britneys dad molested her , imagine the father that molested you owning you for slavery while your forced to sing songs picked for thier sexual content every night, insane right? i have it on First had authority, and fight as hard as she is and does she still didnt pull that car …
Cops: 5 SoCal Kids Victims Of 'ginger' Attacks - CBS NewsI will never understand how something like this can happen: "Kick a Ginger Day." If the parents of the guilty parties were paying attention their kids' Facebook activities, maybe, possibly, these disgusting behaviors could have been prevented.
190 join suicide group HONG KONG - HONG Kong police are seeking the Internet user behind a Facebook group that encouraged teenagers to commit mass suicide, a report said on Thursday, after a 15-year-old member tried to kill himself.
You Say Potato, I'll Say Potato by Laura VanderkamBefore Facebook, few of us asked others, explicitly, to be our friends. We didn't monitor how many friends we had as an indication of our status or scroll through listings of friends of friends to pad our own list.
As Facebook Ages, Gen Y Turns to TwitterInternet users ages 18-44 are more likely to use Twitter or another status update service. (Pew Internet poll results)
Ultimate Insider Black Friday GuideWith a slowly recovering economy, retailers are looking for ways to lure wary customers into their stores on Black Friday. Some retailers are attracting shoppers by staying open on Thanksgiving Day, in addition to extending their hours on Black Friday.
It's Not Just You: Facebook Is DownAccording to our tests (which involved clicking "refresh" many times), Facebook.com will sometimes load after multiple attempts, but there's clearly a problem. So it's not just you: Facebook is indeed down.
Creepy insurance company pulls coverage due to Facebook picsCan people diagnosed with depression go to a party and look like they're having fun? Most of us would say yes, but one insurance company thinks not.
Woman Loses Benefits Over Facebook PhotoBROMONT, Quebec -- A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having fun.
Canadian woman loses benefits over Facebook photoBROMONT, Quebec – A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having fun. Nathalie Blanchard has been on leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Quebec, …
Smiling on Facebook costs Canadian her insuranceFacebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in bikini at the beach.
Assault on Calabasas boy may be tied to Facebook message targeting redheadsLos Angeles County sheriff's detectives are investigating an assault on a 12-year-old middle school boy in Calabasas who may have been targeted after a Facebook group urged students to beat up redheads, a sheriff's official said today.
Teen guilty of Facebook slurAN Adelaide man has been convicted of criminal defamation after posting material about a country police officer on social networking site Facebook.
Jose Antonio Vargas: Palin Online -- Palin's Web Buzz Trumps Obama'sSarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, vice presidential nominee, and media celebrity far surpasses Obama when it comes to Google searches. Online, interest in Palin has surged in the past few days.
Woman tracked down nightclub attacker on Facebook A woman nearly blinded in a nightclub attack tracked down her assailant on Facebook after police said they had no leads.
There are two signs that I'm officially old. The first is that I can peruse through the entire Billboard Top 100 and not recognize a single song – or artist for that matter.
'Dumb blonde' emails not insulting: U.K. boss - thestar.comThe former boss of a Canadian financier said on Tuesday that emails he forwarded to Jordan Wimmer, referring to locking women in the trunk of his car and calling her a "dumb blonde," were meant in jest and weren't demeaning.
Woman Glassed In Face Tracks Down Attacker On Facebook A woman who was glassed in the face has told Sky News Online how she used Facebook to track down her attacker. Jennifer Wilson, 20, was dancing in the Walkabout bar in Watford when a drunk woman lashed out at her.
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