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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

Time running out for MySpace, ‘quarters… not years’ to turn fortunes around

It seems MySpace's lengthy drain-circle may be coming to a conclusion sooner rather than later. I must admit, when I watched Kick-Ass earlier this week, the least believable part- not the jet pack or the little girl with ... 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

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

Pennsylvania university bans social media for a week

A university in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has grabbed some headlines for themselves by taking the attention whoring step of banning all social media on campus for a week, except for on cell phones and smartphones, which kind of ... continue

Upcoming: Delete-a-Friend week on Facebook?

For every new, more convenient way to connect we're given by social media, it seems a frustrating new etiquette trap sidles up right beside it. Twitter was fun until spammers took root. E-mail provides a great way to ... continue

Facebook sues teensy ‘Teachbook,’ seeks to own ‘book’ suffix on whole entire internet

If you planned to start a website with a domain name ending in "book," Facebook might be all up in your grill about that. A tiny little start-up aimed at teachers- a demographic notoriously terrified of Facebook- hasn't ... continue

Ten years of virtual worlds: Habbo hits a decade

This article was written by Jemima Kiss, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 5th July 2010 10.14 UTCVirtual worlds might have been an entertaining diversion for big media a couple of years back, but for a massive swathe of ... continue

Foursquare spawns anti-social networking app Avoidr

If you're tired of the hype surrounding Foursquare and sick of all the check-ins and mayor-crowning updates crowding your Twitter feed and Facebook page (or both), a new app might amuse you. Based on Foursquare, Avoidr turns the ... continue

More relationships are ending via Facebook, survey finds

Facebook has wormed its privacy-obliterating way into many areas of our lives, it would seem, and the messy arena of romantic disentanglements is just another place you can expect to see the social networking giant in the ... continue

Steal back your Foursquare mayorships with WhenWillIBeMayor.com

Foursquare is one of those things people either love or hate, usually quite vocally either way. Many people not playing the game get annoyed at the constant Twitter updates from Foursquare-playing friends, but if you're playing, you might ... continue

ReclaimPrivacy bookmarklet helps keep your info under wraps so you don’t have to delete yourself

If you haven't noticed, "Facebook whining" has reached a crescendo in the past few weeks as the company continues to make changes that dribble bits of user information out onto the internet at large. Instances of threatening to ... continue

Don’t bother going anywhere, people, Foursquare is down

Quick, someone call the Foursquare cops! You can put the pants down and step away from the Metrocard, Foursquare users, as for the time being, you won't be able to check-in anywhere on Foursquare. Your morning Americano, commute stop ... continue

Foursquare Cops: Because everyone hates a Foursquare cheater

If you've got a few friends on Foursquare, you might see the occasional check-in that can't possibly be happening, and perhaps it makes you really pissed off. Target is totally not open at 3:30 in the morning. Or ... continue

Microsoft Kin Streamlines Your Social Networking…In 15 Minute Intervals

Microsoft Kin wants users to have a streamlined, fully integrated way to network a users social networking on a single device, now we've learned that integration will work in 15 minute intervals. The system according to Microsoft engineers ... continue

AOL to shutter or sell Bebo, memo says

It looks like Facebook's web dominance has claimed another victim, as an AOL memo circulating indicates that the company plans to shutter or sell the social networking site Bebo. Although AOL sunk $850 million into Bebo two years ... continue

New social networking site lets your “friends” anonymously rag on you

Unlike the happy circle jerk you witness daily when you log into Facebook ("***hugs***!" "Thinkin of u" "OMG u look so gud!"), a new social network aims to let your friends, under the cloak of internet anonymity, ... continue

Bow Wow tries to shame mom off Twitter, is pwned

As social networking filters up to the old people, an increasingly common embarrassment is having to accept a "friend request" from an older relation as you frantically scrub your history to remove all references to you or ... continue

Now we can all play Foursquare!

I admit it again, I'm totally playing Foursquare. Having been banished to Long Island from my former home of Brooklyn, however, I'm stuck out here with the rest of the old, too poor for the city, and terminally ... continue

MIT team finda DARPA balloons in less than nine hours, wins prize

A contest hatched by DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), offered $40,000 to the first group to find ten red weather balloons at secret locations across the US. More than 4000 groups participated in the project, designed ... continue

Next PlayStation 3 firmware update to include Facebook

Sony has officially confirmed that Facebook will be integrated with the next major PlayStation 3 firmware update. The company made the announcement on its PlayStation blog on the same day that Facebook arrived on Microsoft's Xbox 360. I'm ... continue

Xbox 360 getting Facebook, Twitter, and Last.FM on November 17

The Xbox 360 dashboard update that will allow you access to Facebook, Twitter, and Last.FM through your console goes live on Tuesday, November 17. That's according to Marc Whitten, Xbox Live general manager. Here he is, doing ... continue