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Picture a preschooler running through a grassy field next to her house, pretending she's holding a friend's hand.
New laws passed in 25 states are making it easier for social networking giants Facebook and MySpace to purge their membership lists of convicted rapists, gropers and child molesters.
A Seattle woman tweets from an airport that JetBlue's birthday present to her was forgetting to put her wheelchair on her flight. Seven minutes later, an airline official tweets back that the crew will work quickly to make things right.
You don't often hear a three-star general using the word "friend" as a verb.
As life moves to the Internet, a growing number of public health agencies are signing on to social networking sites — not to find friends but to fight syphilis, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
When Kevin Tobosa got word Thursday that a friend needed help building a sandbag dike, he immediately posted a status update on his Facebook page: "Heading to 2825 Lilac Lane in North Fargo — needs to be raised another 2 feet."
Facebook pushed the boundaries of ad targeting when the online hangout presumed users would want the site to mine their Internet activity.
Google Inc. is setting up a distribution network for social networking applications, adding a new twist in the Internet search leader's brewing rivalry with rapidly maturing startup Facebook Inc.
Social networking Web sites such as MySpace.com are increasingly juicy targets for computer hackers, who are demonstrating a pair of vulnerabilities they claim expose sensitive personal information and could be exploited by online criminals.
It's not all youths on MySpace. Half of the site's users are 35 or older, according to comScore Media Metrix's analysis of its U.S. Internet traffic measurements. Only 30 percent are under 25 despite a common belief that the site is mostly populated with kids and young adults.
Malaysian tycoon buys Friendster Malaysian tycoon Vincent Tan announced a deal to buy Friendster, a social networking site that still retains a strong following in Southeast Asia after losing in global popularity to Facebook and MySpace.
Social networker fined for sending spamThe telecoms sector watchdog Opta has fined an un-named person for sending unwanted messages to thousands of people using the Hyves social networking site, Nos tv reports.
Ok, I'll admit it, BRB is a pet peeve of mine when I'm chatting online with someone. In my way of thinking, BRB means that you're going away for a moment and that you will return soon.
My brother-in-law had to fire one of his employees the other day for addiction. To Facebook. Even after repeated warnings, she just couldn't stay away from her account, spending up to five hours per day on the web site.
Facebook change gives users more privacy controls - Yahoo! NewsSuch action is long over due and sorely needed; since nothing has become private on the Internet anymore, if it ever was. Similar changes should be made at all of the social networking sites, not just Facebook.
Social Networks Are an Untapped Values to Employees And Employers, Research Shows"The network of connections that exist in any workplace -- the communications and information flows between employees, partners, and customers -- represent an "untapped information asset" that can be quantified and analyzed for patterns of influence, relative importance in the or …
Tennessee Mayor, Assails 'Muslim President' For Pre-Empting 'Peanuts'In case you didn't know, President Barack Obama's West Point address, in which he announced his intention to escalate the war in Afghanistan, pre-empted the broadcast of A Charlie Brown Christmas on ABC.
Scavenger Hunt Could Net You 40 GrandBe the first to find ten tethered red weather balloons and you could win $40,000.
Facebook More Popular than eBay, Wikipedia, and U.S.It's only been a couple of days since Facebook revealed that it had topped 350 million users -- exceeding the population of the United States. But that wasn't the end of the shocking statistics about Facebook usage.
MySpace Music launches in BritainMore than a year after launching in the United States, MySpace Music is crossing the pond and arriving in Britain.
I do take thee, Facebook and Twitter updatesA Maryland groom has created an viral story storm after he interrupted his wedding last month to update his Facebook and Twitter accounts from the altar.
Darpa Puts On Contest to Find 10 Red Balloons Across U.S.The goal is to learn more about social behavior in computer networks and how large computer-connected teams use their resources and connections to compete.
Social Networks in the Yahoo DirectoryThis includes a directory of the various Social Networking sites,Yahoo and Google Groups,etc that are listed in the Yahoo Directory.
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.
New 'Noveller' Allows People To Post Novels They Write During Course Of Their DayNoveller, the online macroblogging service that lets users post their impromptu narrative ruminations on modern life, society, and the nature of existence itself, celebrated its millionth post late last week, officially making it the world's most popular prose-sharing tool.
Sarah Palin's Facebook Ghost-Writer Objects To Newsweek CoverThe choice of photo for the cover of this week's Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this "news" magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant.
Protesters hijack more than 200 Facebook groups - CNN.comundreds of Facebook groups have been hijacked in recent days by users pointing out what they say is a weakness in how the social-networking site handles the administration of its groups.
Tagged.com settles with states in invite fightThe social networking site Tagged.com has adopted reforms on the use of invitation e-mails after being accused of essentially stealing the e-mail addresses of some 60 million Internet users, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.
Media Stats, Matters, Yankees and Red SoxAn interesting blog. Ben Atlas uses a lot of metaphors in his writing. I have little direct knowledge (or interest) of the subjects he touches on. But loved the bottom line conclusion he draws. Your thoughts? Let's talk :-)
Report: Tech use doesn't add to social isolationAmericans' love affairs with mobile phones and the Internet are not contributing factors to an increase in social isolation in the United States, according to a new study.
In 2007, I was commissioned by a Fortune 100 company to perform an analysis of their company's operations and suggest means by which they could become leaner and more efficient.
MySpace versus Facebook, or, ghetto vs. "white flight"Are there online ghettoes?
Change passwords: Crooks want keys to your e-mailPhishers are back with a vengeance, armed with some alarming new trickery.
Facebook challenges financial regulators: FINRA | Technology | ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn raise "serious new challenges" for financial regulators, the head of the largest U.S. independent securities regulator said on Tuesday.
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