Nielsen: People spending more time on social sites

Americans have been devoting 17 percent of all their Internet time to social networks like Facebook and blogging Web sites like Blogger.

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Social networking pioneers link with Newark

Silicon Valley is joining the mayor of New Jersey's largest city to create a "blueprint" to organize residents into shared interest groups.

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Study: CEOs not doing enough on social networks

A new study says top CEOs should do a better job managing their presence online, on social sites like Twitter and Facebook and even Wikipedia.

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Facebook, MySpace still mostly for the young

More people are embracing social networks like MySpace and Facebook, but use of these friend-gathering sites remains a much bigger phenomenon among the young, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

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Reporters Without Borders said it was "surprised" that the Internet Governance Forum will take place in Egypt's Sharm-el-Sheikh resort. Set up by the UN, about 1,400 participants are expected to attend the three day meeting which gets under way on 15 November.

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This seems to mean MSNBC.com along with Newsvine may be moving closer to a move.

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The information and cultural transformation spawned by social networking may soon upgrade to a new level of sophistication.

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Facebook has cash flowing from its innovative ad business and it's leading the net from the information age to the social age, where people will finding their important answers not through Google but through their friends, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said Wednesday.

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SEATTLE - By the time Federal Investigators went looking for Maxi Sopo, he was gone. The 26-year-old Cameroonian-native is linked to a bank fraud scheme where investigators say he befriended people on Seattle's nightclub scene and then convinced some to take out phony car loans.

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As Mommy bloggers steadily grow in ranks, the segment is beginning to wield more influence in both the blogosphere and on the web as a whole. And it looks like NBC is waking up to the potential power of this audience.

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Wingnuts, Thieves, Terrorists and Imbeciles Kill Social Sites

In recent months there has been a growing awareness among the citizens of on-line communities that social sites and other gathering places or waterholes are being attacked by various and sundry individuals and organisms that appear to bring detriment, discord and sometimes fatal …

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People have profound influences on each other's behavior within three degrees of separation, the authors find. That means that your friends, your friends' friends, and your friends' friends' friends may all affect your eating habits, voting preferences, happiness, and more.

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Internet imposters are perfecting the technique of impersonating friends on social networking sites like Facebook, with lucrative results.

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Jonah Lehrer pores over the research by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler on social networks and obesity.

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Stephanie Kahn wanted to bask in her engagement for a few hours before diving into the task of calling aunts, uncles and good friends with the big news.

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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. Facebook, the online social grid, could not command loyalty forever. If you ask around, as I did, you'll find quitters. One person shut down her account because she disliked how nosy it made her.

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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. Facebook, the online social grid, could not command loyalty forever. If you ask around, as I did, you'll find quitters. One person shut down her account because she disliked how nosy it made her.

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Is Facebook becoming the office watercooler? That was the interesting theory put to me by a leading employment lawyer the other day when I was looking into how companies are cracking down on employees' use of social networks.

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Over in the UK, there's a story about a home burglar, who stole a laptop among other things, and then used the fact that the latpop was logged into a Facebook account to taunt the victims via one family member's own Facebook account, noting that he was happy with his take (especi …

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No offense to Bambi and Thumper, but I refuse to become Twitter-pated!

I spent years on Myspace, even met my current boyfriend of several years on Myspace. I have spent the last couple years on Facebook - even reconnected with some old friends and distant relatives.

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Gov. Pat Quinn signed new laws Tuesday designed to limit sex offenders' use of technology as a way to find more victims.

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A Disappointing Generation.....Who's fault is it ??

I'm sure many of you have enjoyed watching TV shows exploiting our intelligence (or in some cases, ignorance), like "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" or "Are You Smarter than a Fifth-Grader?" Then there are those TV reality reporters taking a survey of the "average citizen on th …

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Social networking has become huge part of our society, a testament to that is the live blogging coverage happening now at the Sotomayor confirmation hearing.

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Excerpt: ""There's no buzzkill quite like getting a friend request on Facebook from Mommy and Daddy dearest.

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Researchers find a way to identify individuals in supposedly anonymous social-network data.

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A generation is growing up with social networking Web sites like Facebook and MySpace, casually posting accounts of their lives for their friends--and the world--to see.

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excerpt: ""Numerous studies have shown that a strong network of friends can be crucial to getting through a crisis, and can help you be healthier in general.

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BEAVERTON, Ore. -- A local woman who runs a single moms group on the Web site Meetup said Wednesday that she was in contact with the woman accused of killing her pregnant friend last week. Korena Roberts is in jail, charged with the murder of 21-year-old Heather Snively.

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----Video on left side, near the top of article on link page.---- Are you tweeting right now? Better be careful because a tweet about your whereabouts could leave you vulnerable.

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