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Sociologist: MySpace 'White Flight' Boosted Facebook

The choice became 'racialized,' she says

(Newser) - Facebook's trouncing of MySpace is rooted in race, writes sociologist Danah Boyd in an upcoming book. (GigaOm has the draft of a key chapter in PDF form here .) Boyd says young people began leaving MySpace in droves in 2007 (she quotes one complaining it became ghetto") and likens...

Stupid Facebook Updates That Should Never Happen

'I hate my job' and other ill-advised postings

(Newser) - Common sense seems like a simple premise when deciding what your next Facebook post should be; unfortunately, not everyone has this ability when rushing blindly into the virtual world. This article at All Facebook provides some good (live examples) of Facebook posts that you should never make. A few REAL...

Facebook's Fastest Growing Games

FrontierVille leads the way by a mile

(Newser) - AllFacebook runs down the 10 fastest growing Facebook games. Click here for the full list, or for a sampling:
  1. FrontierVille: By far. It added 3.7 million users this week alone; it's from Zynga, the maker of FarmVille, which is heavily pushing it.
  2. Millionaire City: It added 800,000 users
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10 Celebs Who Rule Facebook

 10 Celebs Who 
 Rule Facebook 
yep, vin diesel
Jul 10, 2010 5:00 AM CDT

10 Celebs Who Rule Facebook

Vin Diesel, Linkin Park have a lot more friends than you do

(Newser) - We know Lady Gaga and President Obama have plenty of fans (more than 10 million, though the leader of the free world actually trails the singer). Here are some other surprising social media mavens, singled out by Time , along with their number of fans (as of Thursday) and a taste...

How to Write About Tweets Without Saying 'Tweet'

Observer pokes fun at Times ' Twitter story

(Newser) - The New York Times forbids the word "tweet" (in the Twitter sense) from its pages, as the Awl noted a while back. So when the paper wrote a story about LeBron James' doings on Twitter, the New York Observer wondered how in the world it would manage. Here are...

Facebook Ditches 'Gifts'
 Facebook Ditches 'Gifts' 
Jul 9, 2010 11:10 AM CDT

Facebook Ditches 'Gifts'

Sorry, you can't spend $1 to send a 3KB JPEG anymore

(Newser) - Clip art lovers despaired yesterday, as Facebook announced it's closing its Gift Shop to focus on other, more popular services. As of Aug. 1, you won’t be able to send new gifts, though your old ones will still show up on your profile. “Closing the Gift Shop may...

New Tool Wipes Your Ex From the Web

The Ex-Blocker blocks mentions of he who can't be names

(Newser) - If Facebook made it easier for your old flames to reconnect with you, then the Ex-Blocker (from the Jess3 agency) will be a boon. By filling out a small form, you can basically eliminate all traces of your former paramour from your Facebook, Twitter, and general WWW experience. Read the...

Getting Distracted Online Is Good for Humanity
Getting Distracted Online
Is Good for Humanity
OPINION
Jul 7, 2010 1:30 PM CDT

Getting Distracted Online Is Good for Humanity

We're all part of a burgeoning superorganism

(Newser) - Don’t worry if you can’t make it through these two paragraphs without checking your email in another tab. There are plenty of doomsayers warning that the Internet is rotting our brains and ruining our ability to concentrate, but they’re missing the point, writes Robert Wright in the...

39% of Young Women 'Addicted' to Facebook

One-third check social media before doing anything else

(Newser) - If you’re a woman between 18 and 34, there’s a 34% chance you check your social networks first thing in the morning…even before taking a potty break. More from a recent Oxygen Media study, via Mashable :
  • Of the 1,605 young women sampled, 42% think it’s
...

Twitter Imposter Mocks Medvedev
Twitter Imposter Mocks Medvedev
Jul 6, 2010 10:32 AM CDT

Twitter Imposter Mocks Medvedev

'Kermlin Russia' dodges country's media crackdown

(Newser) - Dmitri Medvedev has discovered one of the great joys of Twitter: the satirical impersonator account. Just days after the Russian president sent his first dispatch from his @KremlinRussia page, another account—called @KermlinRussia —is delivering mocking responses to his dispatches. One, for example, poked fun at his attempts to...

Lady Gaga Beats Obama to 10M Facebook Fans

Singer beats president to milestone

(Newser) - More than 10 million Facebook users are fans of Lady Gaga, making her the first living person to reach the eight-digit reaches of global popularity, Us reports . Michael Jackson, Family Guy, Texas Hold 'Em, and Mafia Wars are the only other entities with 10 million fans. Even President Obama has...

Google Plans 'Facebook Killer'
 Google Plans 'Facebook Killer' 
Jun 28, 2010 5:00 PM CDT

Google Plans 'Facebook Killer'

Search giant rumored to be trying social networking again

(Newser) - A single tweet from Digg co-founder Kevin Rose hinting at a Google challenger to Facebook has opened the floodgates of speculation about what a Google social network, aka "Google Me," would look like. Most focus on Google profiles, a service that establishes a small profile that comes up...

Gaga Edging Obama in Race for 10M Facebook Fans

Only Michael Jackson has more

(Newser) - We'll leave it to others to parse the significance: President Obama and Lady Gaga are neck and neck in the race to become the first living person with 10 million Facebook fans. (The qualifier is because the only other person to reach the lofty milestone is Michael Jackson.) CNET...

Obama: Medvedev Visited HQ of 'Twitters'

President commits social networking gaffe

(Newser) - President Obama made a surprisingly out-of-touch gaffe when he joked during an appearance with Dmitry Medvedev that the Cold War-era "red phones" could be replaced with accounts from "Twitters." Yes, Twitters, which, as Twitter-ers were quick to notice , sounds a lot like George W. Bush's infamous "...

Feds Force Twitter to Beef Up Security

Online service settles charges over past lapses

(Newser) - Twitter has agreed to settle charges by federal regulators that it put the privacy of its users at risk by failing to protect them from data security lapses last year that let hackers access their accounts. The FTC said today the settlement bars Twitter from misleading consumers about its security...

Zuckerberg Set to Trounce Former BFF

New Facebook Q&A product likely put Quora out of business

(Newser) - Facebook is working on a new questions and answers product that, it promises, “will be as exciting as Facebook Photos and Facebook Events.” It might also happen to totally destroy Quora , the Q&A startup that’s become the darling of Silicon Valley. Which is interesting, because Quora...

Foursquare Apps Help You Avoid Your 'Friends'

Don't want to defriend? No problem, just use these apps

(Newser) - It’s called social networking, but thanks to new apps, Foursquare is getting more anti-social. Avoidr allows you to select which “friends” you want to avoid—it shows you where they've checked in so you don't do the same. Its creator thinks of it as somehow less “passive-aggressive”...

Corporate Twitter Accounts' Days Are Numbered
Corporate Twitter Accounts' Days Are Numbered
OPINION
Jun 21, 2010 1:30 PM CDT

Corporate Twitter Accounts' Days Are Numbered

Smart people won't be doing this forever

(Newser) - Ever sent a tweet to tech support? It beats the heck out of calling, Simon Dumenco discovered recently, when a whining appeal to @sprintcare yielded a prompt, personal, pitch-perfect response. Sounds great, right? Well, don’t expect it to last long, Dumenco writes for Advertising Age , because the current corporate...

Farewell, Dear iPad: It's Not You, It's Me
 Farewell, Dear iPad: 
 It's Not You, It's Me 
in case you missed it
Jun 19, 2010 6:00 PM CDT

Farewell, Dear iPad: It's Not You, It's Me

Early adopter returns it because 'it's too good'

(Newser) - An unhappy early adopter of the iPad explains in the Harvard Business Review why he returned it to the store: "It's too good." Peter Bregman toted it everywhere and used it for email, to check news and traffic, and to watch the occasional episode of Weeds. He showed...

Utah AG Tweets Execution News

Critics find social media approach disrespectful

(Newser) - Today's execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner —the first by firing squad in 14 years—was also likely the first execution announced on Twitter, Mashable reports. Utah AG Mark Shurtleff tweeted about the event: “I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner’s execution....

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