A Hendersonville woman was arrested for virtually "poking" someone on the social networking site Facebook.

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The BBC's Aleem Maqbool explains the background to the video Pakistan's army has ordered a probe into a video posted on social networking site Facebook that appears to show soldiers abusing Taliban.

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Gear Up for Giving is a month-long series of social media tutorials, to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness, catalyze civic action and cultivate new supporters and donors for their causes.

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Facebook, for better or worse, is like being at a big party with all your friends, family, acquaintances and co-workers. There are lots of fun, interesting people you're happy to talk to when they stroll up.

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MySpace is close to acquiring popular social music service iLike, we've confirmed with multiple sources. The deal, which should close this week, will be MySpace's first acquisition since new CEO Owen Van Natta took control of the company in April 2009.

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Did you know that your tweets have an expiration date on them? While they never really disappear from your own Twitter stream, they become unsearchable in only a matter of days (via American Libraries Direct)

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From tracking the Jonas Brothers to organizing the Iranian democracy movement, Facebook is the most powerful network -- at the moment -- for linking people up around town or around the world. Love it or hate it, you really can't avoid it. (via American Libraries Direct)

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Twitter: The New Aged Social Networking Revolution

In midst of a rapidly growing technological revolution, our life within a fast paced society stands to be forever changed with the advanced development of the international space known as the Internet.

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This is an update to CNN's story earlier on August 4th about a ban on social networking in the military. The Pentagon is reviewing its policy concerning the access by military personnel to social networking Web sites such as Facebook and Twitter, a spokesman said Tuesday.

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We now have scientific proof that happiness spreads.

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One of the most anticipated days in the history of social networking site Facebook has finally come: the company announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos visible to the public at large by default instead of being visible only to a user's approve …

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Here's a question that's been running through my head ever since Michael posted about FriendFeed being in danger of becoming the coolest app no one uses: exactly how many startups out there are trying to be the one social networking service aggregator to rule them all, and ho …

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GameGround, which was founded by several successful Israeli serial-entrepreneurs, is still in stealth mode but its idea is to offer gamers a social network with a real-time news feed that will show things such as when friends get high scores in games or when they get destroyed in …

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Yahoo 360, which was supposed to close early last year, is finally officially shutting its doors on July 13, according to a blog post written on the site today.

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this is worth a look

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YouTube was busy deleting porn videos on Wednesday after users of forums at a rival site and an imageboard site declared a "Porn Day" campaign against the popular video service.

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We've all been closely watching the total user number for MySpace and Facebook and trying to predict the date that MySpace's last stronghold will fall - no. 1 in U.S. social networking users. A year ago Facebook had super growth around the world, but U.S.

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Using Facebook or Twitter may make you a bad person because it ruins your moral compass, it has been claimed.

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A Nielsen report this week revealed that Twitter has an uncanny knack for hemorrhaging users. In fact, some 60 percent of new users bail on the service within a month. For those of us who've been tweeting for a couple of years, this isn't exactly a shocker.

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Sen. Arlen Specter is always near the bottom of those lists of the most partisan members of the Senate. Through his 28-year career as a Republican senator, he repeatedly bucked his party's wishes to side with Democrats.

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Microsoft's social networking strategy around Windows Live gets a little more meat on the bone today. In November they announced a new strategy that brings in activity streams, FriendFeed/Plaxo style, into a Windows Live home page.

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University of Dayton student Ryan Sapp created a college note-sharing Web site that's being used on hundreds of campuses, but officials aren't thrilled about it.

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A bad week for Twitter just got even worse. The service has apparently been infected by a worm originating from the owners of the website StalkDaily (Note: Do not visit this website, as it may cause your computer to become infected).

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Twitter has become one of the big names on the Internet, and this is due to a very well developed service and a really good design. Its growth in American unique visitors is enormous: 1000% since last year; 4 million Americans used the site in February alone.

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Here's a heck of a rumor that we've sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter.

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