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Would You Friend This Fake Person? Probably
Would You Friend This
Fake Person? Probably
FACEBOOK STUDY SAYS
Dec 7, 2009 12:05 PM CST

Would You Friend This Fake Person? Probably

Distressing response rate for fake Facebook friend requests

(Newser) - If someone you don’t know, represented only by a photo of a rubber duck, tries to friend you on Facebook, you’ll probably...accept. That’s the conclusion of a study by a security firm that created two fake accounts—the fictitious woman behind the duck was named Daisy...

Microsoft's Bing Maps May Beat Google
 Microsoft's Bing Maps 
 May Beat Google 
WEB REVIEW
Dec 3, 2009 1:47 PM CST

Microsoft's Bing Maps May Beat Google

Innovative integration and photo features make beta worth a test

(Newser) - The beta version of Microsoft’s Bing search engine maps feature could well give Google Maps a run for its money, Jason Kincaid writes for TechCrunch . The new feature challenges Google on every front: Streetside, the answer to Street View, functions similarly but uses 3D modeling to provide a seamless...

Groom Updates Status at Altar
 Groom Updates Status at Altar 
TWEET DREAMS
Dec 2, 2009 12:55 PM CST

Groom Updates Status at Altar

Facebook and Twitter needed to know

(Newser) - Yes, this video actually captures a man pausing during his wedding ceremony to update his Facebook status/send out a tweet about his nearly-completed nuptials. The groom, Dana Hanna, says the minister was in on it but his bride was not. But not to worry—he’d come prepared with her...

Yahoo Gets Deeper In Bed With Facebook

Integration will boost traffic on both sites, they hope

(Newser) - Yahoo is finally getting seriously social in a new partnership that will integrate Facebook Connect into its many properties. Yahoo users will be able monitor their Facebook feed on Yahoo, and vice versa. The integration will be done “on a deep level,” a Yahoo exec tells Kara Swisher,...

NY Boots Sex Offenders Off Facebook, MySpace

Thousands of accounts disabled in social networking sweep

(Newser) - Thousands of sex offenders in New York have had their Facebook and MySpace accounts disabled in the first big sweep under a state law targeting online predators. Some 3,500 registered offenders have been kicked off the sites in recent weeks, sources tell the New York Daily News. Their names...

Pulp Fiction Writer 'Tweets' Prison Horrors

Gritty details of strip searches, drug use linked to Roger Avary

(Newser) - Pulp Fiction screenwriter Roger Avary has lost his freedom but apparently not his ability to use Twitter. A Twitter accout— @AVARY —appears to be the work of Avary, who is serving a year for vehicular manslaughter. "My friend @AVARY is tweeting from the inside," sci-fi writer Neil...

Cops Use Facebook to Bust Underage Drinkers
Cops Use Facebook to Bust Underage Drinkers
BIG BROTHER
Nov 19, 2009 6:19 PM CST

Cops Use Facebook to Bust Underage Drinkers

Phony 'friend' gains access to drinking photos

(Newser) - Wisconsin college student Adam Bauer should represent a cautionary tale for Facebook users under 21, or otherwise on the wrong side of the law: be careful what you post, and whom you friend. Shortly after accepting a request from an unfamiliar, “good-looking girl,” Bauer was invited to the...

Facebook's Most Annoying Parents

Enough with the sonogram pictures and toilet training status updates

(Newser) - The latest annoying trend on Facebook isn’t people who write in all caps or insist on using “ur” instead of “your”—it’s parents. Babble runs down the five most annoying types:
  • Obsessives: If you absolutely have to post a sonogram picture, fine. But must you
...

'Unfriend' Is Scam, Not Word, of Year
 'Unfriend' Is Scam, 
 Not Word, of Year 
OPINION
Nov 17, 2009 9:08 AM CST

'Unfriend' Is Scam, Not Word, of Year

This is one big hacky trend piece, writes Adrian Chen

(Newser) - After "unfriend" won Oxford University Press' Word of the Year, Adrian Chen started typing away at a piece on Internet relationships for Gawker —"Then I realized that the Word of the Year is a huge scam." Here's the evidence: The past four winners have been hypermiling...

In Venezuela, Criminals, Police Turn to Facebook

Citizens fear gov. will crack down on social networking

(Newser) - Update your status at your own peril in Venezuela: A pair of university students burglarized their Facebook friends' homes after collecting info on what they owned and when they wouldn't be home. Theft and other crime facilitated by social networking sites are on the rise in Venezuela, and in a...

Latest Facebook Star: 2009 Word of the Year

'Unfriend' beats 'sexting' and 'birther,' gets call from dictionary

(Newser) - In a move sure to get English majors talking, the New Oxford American Dictionary has crowned “unfriend” as its Word of the Year for 2009. And yes, the verb means exactly what you think it means: "To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site...

Stung by Bias Charges, Twitter Will Stop Suggestions

List of people to follow 'will be going away'

(Newser) - A little bird named Biz Stone tells reporters that Twitter’s much-maligned “suggested users” list is getting kicked out of the nest. The feature, which encourages new users to follow a handful of celebrities, has been mired in controversy over the selection process. Republicans, for example, have claimed it...

Obama: I Don't Really Do Twitter

But the president wants the Chinese to be able to

(Newser) - If you’re one of Barack Obama’s 2.6 million Twitter followers, you’ve been suckered—the president says he’s never sent a tweet in his life. In a Q&A session in Shanghai, Obama was asked what he thought of China’s restriction of Twitter. “I...

Shuttle Launch Comes With Real-World 'Tweetup'
Shuttle Launch Comes With Real-World 'Tweetup'
the final frontier
Nov 15, 2009 3:01 PM CST

Shuttle Launch Comes With Real-World 'Tweetup'

NASA Twitter followers get front-row seats

(Newser) - Final preparations for tomorrow's space shuttle launch include inspecting Atlantis, briefing the six-person crew, and making sure followers of NASA's Twitter feed can see from where they're sitting. The first 100 people to register for the event received 2-day passes that include an in-person look at the launch. "I'm...

OMG, Enuf With Ur Duckface
 OMG, Enuf With Ur Duckface 
ANTISOCIAL NETWORKING
Nov 15, 2009 1:50 PM CST

OMG, Enuf With Ur Duckface

Social networks groan under weight of bad profile mugs

(Newser) - Chances are, if it doesn’t describe the face you’re making in your Facebook profile picture, it describes one (and likely more) of your friends: the pouty-kissy duckface. And the minds behind Stop Making That Duckface! are sick of it. “Stop doing it,” reads the manifesto just...

Facebook Is Now Offering Alibis
 Facebook Is Now Offering Alibis 
Nov 12, 2009 9:57 AM CST

Facebook Is Now Offering Alibis

NYC teen charged in robbery couldn't have done it, status update proves

(Newser) - We’ve all read about bonehead criminals getting caught because of social networks, or people’s online lives coming back to haunt them in divorce proceedings—but can Facebook actually help you in court? The answer is yes, at least for one New York teen, who is free after he...

How Taylor Swift Shot to the Top

Teen a strong contender for country music's biggest prize

(Newser) - Barring interference from Kanye West, Taylor Swift heads to Nashville to fight for country music's top prize tonight: Entertainer of the Year. The 19-year-old singer is up against the old boys of the industry, but Randy Lewis of the LA Times thinks she's got a shot. If the Pennsylvania-born Nashville...

Scale Tweets Your Body Fat to the World
 Scale Tweets Your 
 Body Fat to the World 
EMBARRASSING PRODUCTS
Nov 11, 2009 6:06 AM CST

Scale Tweets Your Body Fat to the World

Bathroom gadget automatically twitters weight

(Newser) - Want the world to follow the ups and downs of your body weight in real time? A French company has just the product for you: the WiFi body scale, equipped with a wireless connection to post your weight and body fat to your Web page and iPhone—and to tweet...

'Shit My Dad Says' Heads to TV
 'Shit My 
 Dad Says' 
 Heads to TV 
TWITTER TAKEOVER
Nov 10, 2009 11:21 AM CST

'Shit My Dad Says' Heads to TV

Son's lucrative exploitation also includes book deal

(Newser) - Move over, Al Bundy: A project based @shitmydadsays, the Twitter feed engineered by the son of a cantankerous father, has been picked up by CBS. The creators of Will and Grace are on board as executive producers, with that selfsame transcriber of a son taking writing duties. The microblog’s...

Palin Makes Twitter Comeback
 Palin Makes Twitter Comeback 
A VOID FILLED
Nov 10, 2009 8:42 AM CST

Palin Makes Twitter Comeback

Gov will return to 140-character musings for book tour

(Newser) - Currently unemployed politician Sarah Palin will return to her prolific tweeting career for her upcoming book tour, reports the AP . The erstwhile governor quit both her post and Twitter feed simultaneously earlier this year, but announced on Facebook last night that she'll again provide devoted and scornful followers alike with...

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