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NYPD using Facebook, MySpace to gather evidence against criminals

Well, at least somebody is still using MySpace. [/obligatory] NYPD cops spoke to a local paper about how much of a boon the sharing-happy phenomenon of social media has been to investigations, since some folks, it seems, are ... continue

Lancet: Facebook triggered asthma attack in previously asymptomatic teen

Add this to the list of potential Facebook dangers: life-threatening asthma attacks. An 18-year-old man, whose ex-girlfriend Facebook blocked him and then friended several other dudes she could have totally been boning, was discovered by doctors to be ... continue

Debt collectors sued for using Facebook to harass family and friends of delinquent borrowers

Technology and its widespread use evolves daily, and as it does, the way sometimes intensely personal information is used (possibly against you) by companies and agencies often has no legal precedent. One such case would be the collection ... continue

National Unfriend Day has arrived, have you been hit yet?

Today is November 17th, the day declared by late night host Jimmy Kimmel as "National Unfriend Day." Kimmel feels that technology is getting in the way of real friendships, or is at least diluting the importance of the ... continue

Stupid: ‘Super logoff’ Facebook to avoid interacting with people

Sometimes you read about strategies for interacting via social media that simplify things or alert you to a new, better way of using these tools to communicate with friends, co-workers, clients or relatives. Then there's this, which is ... continue

Law enforcement recruits asked to hand over Facebook passwords, text messages

If you're sworn to uphold the law or hope to be, should you have to bend over and allow hiring directors to sift through your personal communications and base personnel decisions on that content? If a recent piece ... continue

Unborn baby girl tells father to f#%* off on her Facebook page

Ya, you read that right. This is just so wrong in so many different ways. via The Next Web. continue

Should you purge your Facebook contacts for “unfriending” day?

Pretty much everyone is on Facebook now, and as the social networking service has leaked into other aspects of real life, so too have little etiquette conundrums that didn't exist before Facebook was everywhere, all the time. If you've been using ... continue

Facebook mobile to add local deals, give away free Gap jeans

Facebook's mobile app, like Foursquare before it, is set to add local deals to its mobile app. A rep for Facebook points out that the functionality can serve to connect local retailers and restaurants to mobile web users ... continue

[Infographic] When will you get dumped on Facebook?

According to Mashable, the above graph represents instances of the terms "break up" or "broken up" from random Facebook Status updates over a calendar year. While it would be slightly more interesting to analyze relationship status changes, it's ... continue

Amazon makes e-gifting ‘more social’ with Facebook wall integration

Amazon has added functionality alongside Facebook to combine gift-giving and social media. Now, instead of sending gift cards through a one-on-one email, you can publicly post birthday, Christmas, anniversary or wedding gifts to your friends' Facebook Walls. It ... continue

Sarah Palin’s Facebook Wall page gets letterbombed

Oh this is just too fun. In most cases when some-one's Facebook page gets pranked or otherwise abused it typically takes place in the comments on the person's Wall page. In the case of letterbombing however it is ... continue

Is Facebook outing gay people through targeted advertising?

Privacy concerns surrounding Facebook are nothing new- indeed, at this point, one of the first things that springs to mind alongside the world's most popular social network is the frequent news that somehow, somewhere Facebook is currently ... continue

‘How did we meet?’ Facebook status pwnage

Yet another pitfall to friending your parents on Facebook. [Lamebook] continue

Facebook: Popular apps are leaking, selling user information

Occasionally, people in my Facebook feed will post and repost a status update about not how not to have information you'd not like public leaked on Facebook. "Get a piece of paper and write down all the things ... continue

Tony goes on Facebook and says what everyone is thinking

You know you want to. [via sofapizza] continue

So what did Zuckerberg really say yesterday?

Yesterday, October 6th, Zuckerberg took center stage to announce a bunch more changes at Facebook but in his typical fashion a lot of people were left wondering exact what his presentation meant. In order to help us ... continue

Does the Facebook “I like it” meme promote awareness of breast cancer?

We posted yesterday about the flurry of innuendo-laden "I like it" related Facebook statuses currently taking over the popular network. "I like it on the floor." "I like it on the couch." "I like it on the deck." ... continue

Why is everyone posting “I like it…” in their Facebook status updates?

Even if you don't open forwarded emails, sometimes having a Facebook account exposes you to annoying, not very clever forwarded-email style bon mots anyway. This week's Facebook status update-gone-viral is not new, but has gotten legs in the ... continue

The Social Network As Told By Taiwanese CGI

It had to happen: the folks in Taiwan who produced CGI classics such as the Tiger Woods story are back with their own take on The Social Network. Probably not NSFW, but there's one scene where it gets ... continue

The Social Network As Told By Mark Zuckerberg

The parodies have flown thick and fast since the first trailer for the forthcoming history of Facebook movie "The Social Network" was released. But how would the movie be different if the story was told from the ... continue

New York Bar approves evidence mining on social networks like Facebook, with some caveats

It's kind of interesting (albeit a little scary) to watch legal precedents develop around technology we've all already been using for years. We've posted before about lawyers regarding Facebook as an "evidentiary goldmine" in divorce cases, and everyone ... continue