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Facebook as a grief coping mechanism

I kind of wish Dan was my cousin. [lamebook] continue

What Do The Police Actually Get When They Subpoena Your Facebook Account?

We've all heard the stories of people convicted on crimes where the evidence included things like their Google searches or their Facebook posting but in order to get that Facebook information the police first need to subpoena ... continue

Status update games like ‘find your Royal Wedding’ name could pose security risk

Among the clickjacking and shady app threats lurking on Facebook, there is another, more insidious threat to your security lurking on social networks. You. Sophos makes an excellent point about status update games and the potential security risks ... continue

Assange critiques Facebook “spy machine” in interview

Founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange has warned users of popular social networks of the dangers of building a ready-made dossier for intelligence services voluntarily. In an interview with Russia Today, Assange specifically stated he did not think the services ... continue

The danger of Facebook Likes

Has this totally happened to you? [Cyanide & Happiness] continue

Did Zynga’s Farmville and similar apps kill the soap opera?

An interesting theory has been posited by Adweek, concerning the mostly-concurrent rise of social gaming via social networks- like FarmVille on Facebook- and the death of daytime soaps. A few weeks ago, two long-running TV soaps were cut ... continue

Who’s the dirtiest of web services out there? Twitter!

Trust Greenpeace to come up with the dirt on companies that are less than green, at least in their eyes anyway. On Thursday at GigaOM's Green:Net 2011 event the Greenpeace organization released a new report that examined some of the ... continue

Facebook friend requests

...would be so much easier if this existed. [via] continue

Mark Zuckerberg ‘Mad Magazine’ Cover Debuts

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be featured on the June cover of Mad Magazine next to Alfred E. Neumann, the magazines mascot. In the issue you'll be able to read the "50 Worst Things About Facebook" which in ... continue

Racists and idiots come out of woodwork during Obama’s Facebook Townhall

I have been watching President Obama's Townhall meeting that is being held at Facebook today and being live streamed for everyone to watch. However it seems that the idiots and racists have decided that it is also a ... continue

A peek at the human model behind the Facebook avatar

When you first sign up at Facebook you get a default avatar of a white portrait figure on a pale blue background but have you ever wondered who modeled for each of the two avatars, male and ... continue

Debt collectors can’t harass you through Facebook, court rules

The idea of your unpaid student loan debts or late car payments being publicized on your Facebook wall is probably pretty unpleasant sounding. With high unemployment and a record wealth divide right now in the US, it also ... continue

The dangers of Formspring

Potential accidental reverse burn. [Source unknown] continue

T. Rowe Price shows some serious love for Facebook and Zynga

Typically you don't find Wall Street investing in companies that haven't gone public but as we all remember the fuss that was raised when Goldman Sachs invested in Facebook last year this practice seems to have changed. It ... continue

Pitfalls of real-life socializing on your Facebook wall

...a situation like this is virtually unspinnable. [source unknown] continue

[Graph] Facebook friend suggestions by type of user

Facebook friend suggestion algorithms- do you find them to be totally whack? [GraphJam] continue

Winklevoss twins chastised by judge in Facebook ruling

Facebook pretenders to the throne Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have been dealt another blow in their fight to squeeze more money out of the massively profitable social network. The pair were slapped with a ruling today in which ... continue

Getting tagged in Facebook photos…

Every goddamn time. [sofapizza] continue

Next up for Facebook and Twitter? Terror Alerts from US government.

We are seeing social networks like Facebook being used by police and other government agencies to alert people of events as they happen. From Amber Alerts to earthquakes around the world we are getting our news as ... continue

Napster Founder Sean Parker Gets Engaged

Sean Parker, the guy who invented peer-to-peer file sharing network Napster and later became a co-founder of Facebook is engaged to be married. Parker proposed this week to New York singer/songwriter Alexandra Lenas. The internet entrepreneur was most recently ... continue

Bad spelling- it’s apparently genetic [Facebook]

Thanks for fighting the good fight, Daniel. [Lamebook] continue

Survey: Women dislike their Facebook friends, mostly

Deals site Eversave spoke to nearly 400 women about their feelings about their Facebook friends (men were inexplicably excluded) and found that out of the set of friends participants have, women were often judgmental or viewed their ... continue