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OPINION

Your Birthday Wall Post Isn't Impressing Anyone

Technology makes it too easy to send insincere greetings

Nov 2, 09 2:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Vikki Ortiz Healy got a birthday kiss from her husband, a call from her sister, baked goods from her co-workers. She figured that’d be it. Then she logged onto Facebook—and found more than 60 messages from random acquaintances. She started to suspect that maybe, just maybe, they were... More »

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social networking • Facebook • birthday • social media

 Spam King Ordered to 
 Pay Facebook $711M 

Sanford Wallace may face jail time

Oct 30, 09 4:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - "Spam king" Sanford Wallace has been slapped with a $711 million judgment for spamming Facebook users. A California judge found that Wallace, who used phishing techniques to access Facebook accounts, violated a law against sending "false and misleading" marketing emails. The judge permanently banned Wallace from accessing Facebook... More »

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spam • Facebook • phishing • cybercrime • Sanford Wallace

 Facebook Gives
 Death a Makeover

Gravestones are so 1.0, site spins; try memorializing your page

Oct 29, 09 2:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook has responded to yet another qualm arising from its revamp last week. This one was actually sort of serious: Users were inundated with suggestions that they “reconnect” with friends who—though their Facebook pages were still active—had in reality shuffled off this mortal coil. “Would that... More »

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social networking • Internet • Web 2.0 • Facebook • online privacy • death • memorial • deceased

 Sex Offender Held in 
 UK Facebook Murder 

32-year-old posed as teenager, led police to body

Oct 28, 09 4:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - British police are holding a convicted sex offender after he confessed to murdering a 17-year-old girl he met on Facebook, posing as a fellow teenager. The 32-year-old blurted out "I've killed a girl" after being picked up for a car insurance violation. He then led police to a field... More »

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United Kingdom • murder • Facebook • sex offenders • suffocation

analysis

Rivals No More, Facebook and MySpace Talk Content

MySpace can provide it, and Facebook is the platform

Oct 26, 09 10:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - High-ranking executives at both Facebook and MySpace confirm that the companies are in talks over some sort of content partnership—a development that isn’t a big surprise to at least one observer. Formerly intense competitors in the social-networking sphere, Caroline McCarthy writes, now “Facebook’s the one providing... More »

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social networking • MySpace • Facebook • News Corp • original content

inter-not

Legions Gripe About Latest Facebook Revamp

New 'Live Feed' not
a hit with users

Oct 26, 09 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook’s latest design change seems pretty minor, but that hasn’t stopped users from grousing about it. Lots of protest groups have already cropped up, most notably “PLEASE GIVE US OUR OLD NEWS FEED BACK!” which already boasts 490,000 members and counting. In case you didn’... More »

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social networking • Internet • Facebook • redesign

ONLINE GAMING

 Facebook Sees Big 
 Bucks in Virtual Goods 

Social networking site wants a cut of gaming transactions

Oct 23, 09 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gaming is blowing up on Facebook, and the social networking site hopes to take a cut of the very real revenue generated by virtual interactions. Analysts think credits and other services bought to enhance the likes of “Farmville” and “Mafia Wars” will be trading at a clip of... More »

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social networking • Internet • Web 2.0 • Facebook • PayPal • online gaming • virtual goods • microtransaction • Mafia Wars • Farmville

Italy Probes 'Kill Berlusconi' Facebook Gang

'Assassination gang' boasts 20K members

Oct 23, 09 2:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Italian authorities have vowed to close down a Facebook group called "Let's Kill Berlusconi," even though its creators say it's harmless fun. Some 20,000 people from all over the world have joined the group, many offering their services to dispatch the embattled Italian leader in a variety... More »

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social networking • Italy • Facebook • assassination • Silvio Berlusconi

MySpace Gives Up In Race With Facebook

Social networking leader 'is not our competition'

Oct 22, 09 11:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - MySpace has officially waved the white flag in its battle with Facebook. The company’s new CEO—ex-Facebook exec Chris DeWolfe—tells the Financial Times that the company now sees itself as more of a music and entertainment hub than a social networking site. “Facebook is not our... More »

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music • social networking • MySpace • iTunes • Facebook

Poll Numbers

 Unemployment  
 Hasn't Helped 
 Sarah Palin 

Poll numbers fall with her low profile

Oct 20, 09 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Political professionals largely applauded Sarah Palin’s flight from office, saying it would give her time to lie low, hone her message, and build her brand. But so far the disappearing act hasn’t helped with voters. A new Gallup poll found Palin’s favorable rating at 40%, its lowest... More »

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Facebook • Republican nomination • Sarah Palin • poll numbers • Election 2012

What's Next?

Facebook Has 300M Users, Most Bored

Hunger for next big thing could bring social network down

Oct 19, 09 11:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook has finally turned a profit, and can boast 300 million users—and it may be on its way out. The web has seen dozens of social networking sites come, gain buzz, get huge, and then implode or mutate as users looked for the next big thing—remember Friendster, Livejournal,... More »

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social networking • MySpace • Facebook • social media

OPINION


 Palin Wades 
 Back Into 
 Health Care 
 Debate 

On Facebook, former Alaska gov picks apart Baucus bill

Oct 18, 09 3:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - With less than a month to go before the release of her memoir, Sarah Palin has weighed in on the health care debate, opining that the authors of the Baucus bill "no doubt have good intentions, but good intentions aren’t enough." Furthermore, the effort in general "... More »

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Alaska • Republican • Facebook • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Max Baucus • Sarah Palin

 Facebook 
 Refuseniks 
 Still Sorta 
 Use It 

They object in principle but end up using it by proxy

Oct 15, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Washington Post today profiles an increasingly rare breed: people in their 20s and 30s who don't use Facebook or other such sites. And though the “refuseniks” interviewed have different rationales—privacy, “morals and beliefs,” being “old-school in the personal touch way,” many share something... More »

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social networking • Internet • MySpace • Facebook • online privacy • communication • Twitter • Luddite

 Facebook 
 Trips Up 
 High-Living 
 Fugitive 

Alleged bank fraudster caught in Cancun

Oct 14, 09 4:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fugitives of the world, take note: If you’re having the time of your life hanging out in Cancun, you probably shouldn’t brag about it on Facebook. And you definitely shouldn’t add an ex-Justice Department official as a friend. Take it from Maxi Sopo, a 26-year-old who... More »

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US attorney • Facebook • fugitive • Cancun

 Auschwitz Joins Facebook 

Museum hopes profile will educate young people

Oct 14, 09 2:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Auschwitz death camp—now a museum about the horrors that transpired there—has joined Facebook. Officials hope to educate young people about the Holocaust but say they are sensitive to concerns about trivializing the site's history. "We want it to be a place of discourse, but of course... More »

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social networking • genocide • Holocaust • Facebook • Auschwitz • death camp

OPINION

Facebook, Twitter Will Kill Email ... Maybe

Social networking sites have their place, but
so does predecessor

Oct 12, 09 3:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Email’s had a good run, but its day is done, according to Jessica Vascellaro of the Wall Street Journal. Email is an outdated form of communication, better suited to a time when we logged online and off, she argues. Now that we’re always connected, Twitter and Facebook... More »

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social networking • Internet • email • Facebook • Twitter • e-mails

 Dad Used 
 Facebook to 
 Proposition 
 Daughter: 
 Cops 

Self-described 'Bad Daddy' faces up to 30 years in prison

Oct 11, 09 3:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Pennsylvania man who used Facebook to proposition his 13-year-old daughter has been charged with attempted incest and unlawful contact with a minor, police say. After tracking down the girl, with whom he had had no contact for a decade, he asked to meet her for sex, writing, "Not... More »

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social networking • crime • Facebook • Pennsylvania • incest

New Facebook App Finds Your Long-Lost Twin

Coke is to Coke Zero as you are to this friend, app promises

Oct 8, 09 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Facebook app that promises to match you with the person in its network who looks most like you "is fun enough that it just might work," Christina Warren writes for Mashable. The app scans photos of you and photos of others who’ve signed up, and…voila!... More »

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social networking • Facebook • digital photography • application • soft drinks • online friend • Coca-Cola • Coke Zero

OPINION

Look Up Exes on Facebook
at Your Own Peril 

He's probably gay, she probably hates you, and it could ruin your relationship

Oct 6, 09 10:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Back in the halcyon pre-Facebook days, Elizabeth Bernstein writes, you didn't just pick up the phone and ring up an old flame. “If you went looking for a former partner, you knew you were looking for trouble.” So why it should be any different on Facebook? A survey... More »

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social networking • Internet • Facebook • relationship • etiquette • ex-boyfriends • ex-girlfriends • flame

FTC Warns Bloggers on 'Reviewing' Freebies

New media critics must come clean or risk fine

Oct 5, 09 4:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bloggers, Tweeters, and Facebookers who receive payments or free products from companies and in turn hype or review them—without mentioning the arrangement—could be on the hook for $11,000 in FTC fines. The commission’s new regulations offer clear guidelines on the responsibilities of reviewers working in new... More »

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Facebook • FTC • reviews • blogger • endorsement • product placement • Twitter

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