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Hard-up MySpace Turns to Selling User Data

'Sounds like desperation to me'

(Newser) - In a scenario privacy advocates have warned about, MySpace has started selling user data to third parties—and you may be surprised to hear what a low price your private data goes for. A whopping 24 hours of MySpace's data stream is sold for a mere $30 by one firm,...

Feds Swarm Facebook for Leads, Under Cover

Documents show FBI friends suspects to mine information

(Newser) - Your next Facebook friend might well be a federal agent trying to bust you. That’s the gist of a Justice Department document obtained via the Freedom of Information Act by a privacy group. It reveals that FBI agents are mining social networks for info on suspects, ranging from alibi...

Hate Speech Soars on Social Networks

Hate speech up 20% on the Web

(Newser) - Hate speech is on the rise online, particularly on social networking sites. A new study registered about 11,500 hate-affiliated web pages, up 20% from last year, along with a growing number of terror-related "how to" sites. "The spike is not in traditional websites in the United States,...

Facebook Turns to Indian Workers

Company plans to double number of support centers

(Newser) - Facebook is bumping its number of support center to four with a new office in Hyderabad, India. The Indian office, the company's first in Asia, will supplement existing operations in Palo Alto, Calif., and Dublin, and a recently announced Austin, Texas office, and let the company provide better round-the-clock, multi-lingual...

Facebook's Traffic Tops Google's for Week
 Facebook's Traffic 
 Tops Google's for Week 
NEW MILESTONE FOR NO. 1
Mar 15, 2010 7:00 PM CDT

Facebook's Traffic Tops Google's for Week

Social network site had done it for a day, but this is new

(Newser) - Facebook’s traffic from US visitors hit a new milestone for the week ending Saturday: It took the top spot from Google. The social-networking site had beaten the search giant on single days before, notably Christmas. Facebook’s traffic is up 185% over the same week in 2009, Hitwise reports,...

Facebook May Sue UK Tab for Flubbed Sex Predator Story

Said reporter posing as girl harassed by men

(Newser) - Posing as a 14-year-old girl on Facebook, a Daily Mail reporter was bombarded by messages from 20- to 40-year-old men wanting "to perform a sex act"—only it was really another social networking site, and Facebook is livid and threatening to sue over the misreported story . The author...

Facebook Murderer Gets Life
 Facebook Murderer Gets Life 
Mar 8, 2010 4:45 PM CST

Facebook Murderer Gets Life

Rapist used fake profile, posed as 'dad' to lure teen

(Newser) - A repeat sex offender was sentenced to life in prison today for killing a teenage girl he'd lured into a meeting using Facebook. Peter Chapman created a fake profile, complete with a photo of an attractive, bare-chested boy, to gain the attention of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall. The homeless 33-year-old tricked...

Duplicitous Zuckerberg Stalled Early Facebook Rival

Founder delayed project he was working on to benefit his site

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from the founders of a rival site and intentionally stalled that site's development so his would prosper. That's the takeaway from an analysis of instant messages Business Insider says it “believes” the Facebook CEO sent while his site was getting off the...

Soldier's Facebook Post Derails Israeli Raid

Grunt who posted details on social network gets 10 days in jail

(Newser) - A West Bank raid by the Israel Defense Forces had to be called off after a soldier posted details of the operation on his Facebook page. “On Wednesday,” the status update read, “we are cleaning out " a village, which the soldier named. “Today an arrest...

What It's Like to Work for This Guy

 What It's Like 
 to Work for 
 This Guy 

facebook gossip
Mar 4, 2010 7:48 AM CST

What It's Like to Work for This Guy

'Princely' Mark Zuckerberg used to shout 'domination' at meetings

(Newser) - When Facebook goes public, its IPO could make founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg the richest 25-year-old in the world. But Zuckerberg, who prides himself on his ability to delay gratification, is in no hurry: Facebook will go public, he says, but not anytime soon. Zuckerberg has, however, switched from sandals...

Prof Suspended for 'Hitman' Facebook Quip

University says allusion to violence had to be taken seriously

(Newser) - A fed-up sociology professor who joked about wanting to hire a hitman for troublesome students has become yet another employee facing Facebook fallout. Gloria Gadsden's bosses at Pennsylvania's Stroudsburg University put her on indefinite leave after a student told them about her update reading "Does anyone know where I...

Offered a Free iPad? It's a Scam
 Offered a Free iPad? 
 It's a Scam 
ATTN. FACEBOOK, TWITTER USERS
Mar 2, 2010 8:45 PM CST

Offered a Free iPad? It's a Scam

Con artists will dupe you, friends in bogus cell charges

(Newser) - If you spend much time on Facebook or Twitter, chances are you’ve been given the chance to get a free Apple iPad by signing up to test the product. And if you’re at all familiar with the Internet, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that it’...

'Coffee Party' Brews Up Progressive Answer to Tea

Activists say civil discourse beats tea partying

(Newser) - Citizens who say tax protests and rage against government aren't their cup of tea have started a caffeinated movement of their own. The Coffee Party movement "gives a voice to Americans who want to see cooperation in government," says founder Annabel Park, who became the movement's de facto...

Facebook Gets Patent on Its News Feed: Game Over?
Facebook Gets Patent on Its News Feed: Game Over?
ANALYSIS
Feb 25, 2010 10:11 PM CST

Facebook Gets Patent on Its News Feed: Game Over?

Nah, Twitter et al. probably in the clear

(Newser) - Facebook has received a patent for its news feed, a status update that could have consequences for its social-networking competitors—though analysts disagree on how wide-reaching, if indeed Facebook chooses to go after the likes of MySpace, Twitter et al. “Indeed,” Caroline McCarthy writes for CNET , “technologies...

Man Holds Ex-Girlfriend's Facebook Account Hostage

He faces harassment charges after demanding ransom

(Newser) - It's a case of kidnapping by online proxy—a New York man demanded a ransom from his ex-girlfriend after hijacking her Facebook page and changing her sexual preference to gay. But he never got the cash: instead his girlfriend went to the police and had him charged with coercion and...

Facebook Teen Sex Blackmailer Gets 15 Years

Wisconsin youth coerced males after getting nude photos

(Newser) - A Wisconsin teenager who used Facebook to blackmail fellow male students into sex acts has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Anthony Stancl, now 19, posed as a girl on the site and solicited nude photos from at least 31 young men. He then threatened to make them public...

'Pickleback' Tops Nickelback... 'Frontman' Pissed

Fake Chad Kroeger doesn't see the humor in Facebook page

(Newser) - Most important news of the day: The pickle prominently featured on Facebook page “Can this pickle get more fans than Nickelback” did, indeed, accrue more fans than the band. Though a Facebook exchange between the "frontman" and the page’s founder (at left) appears to be a fake,...

Brown Ripped for Vote on Jobs Bill

Senator mounts defense as Facebook friends mutiny

(Newser) - Scott Brown is getting flack from all sides for his decision to cross the aisle and vote to end debate on the Senate's $15 billion jobs legislation. The Drudge Report splashed the story on its homepage and tinted a photo of the Massachusetts senator an incriminating red. Far more vociferous...

Facebook Users Report Glitches, Slow Speed

Site says it's working on the problem

(Newser) - Facebook users have been complaining about problems with the site today. Users in the US and other countries took to Twitter beginning this morning to say they couldn't log in or were experiencing slow speeds. A spokesman said the company is working to restore access and, without giving a specific...

Fringe Groups Hail Austin Suicide Pilot as Hero

Internet lights up with support for terrorist's anti-government stance

(Newser) - Not long after Joe Stack flew his plane into an Austin office building yesterday, the Internet began buzzing with newfound fans calling him a hero, inspired by the anti-government rant he left behind. “Finally, an American man took a stand against our tyrannical government,” posted the founder of...

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