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Student Ranks Female Classmates, Posts Online

Chicago teen faces expulsion after derogatory rankings

(Newser) - A classy young man at a high school in suburban Chicago faces expulsion after publicly ranking the looks and sexual promiscuity of the girls in his school in great detail and, of course, posting it on Facebook. After that, he printed out the list and distributed it in fliers around...

Facebook Pauses Phone, Address Sharing

It will be back, but only if you want it, says rep

(Newser) - You can breathe easier: Facebook won’t be sharing your phone numbers and addresses with third-party applications—at least, not just yet. After the company’s announcement of the new feature generated yet another privacy uproar, a director wrote on Facebook’s developer blog that it will put the feature...

Goldman to US Investors: No Facebook Shares for You

Only non-US clients can buy in

(Newser) - Want to snatch up some Facebook shares? Tough luck, if you’re an American. Goldman Sachs is limiting the private offering of up to $1.5 billion in shares to non-US clients only. In a statement to the Wall Street Journal , Goldman says the "intense media attention" surrounding the...

Facebook Now Lets Apps Grab Your Address, Phone Number

Analysts fear benefits for 'rogue' applications

(Newser) - Facebook is making users' addresses and cell phone numbers available to third-party developers, the site announced Friday on its blog . Users who accept the terms and conditions attached to a Facebook app while downloading it will be letting that app's makers see their contact information if they’ve posted it...

Woman Played Facebook Game as Son Drowned

Colorado mother left 13-month-old alone in the tub

(Newser) - Rough story out of Colorado: A woman admitted leaving her 13-month-old son alone in the tub while she played Café World on Facebook in another room, reports Denver's ABC 7 News . Shannon Johnson told police she checked on him once, then went back in a few minutes to find him...

Teens Arrested Over Facebook Prank
Teens Arrested
Over Facebook Prank
Jan 14, 2011 10:26 AM CST

Teens Arrested Over Facebook Prank

Setting up fake profile was serious crime, police say

(Newser) - Two teenage girls in Florida are facing serious criminal charges for a Facebook prank they played on a classmate. The girls, aged 15 and 16, created a fake Facebook profile in the name of another student—a girl they were no longer friends with—and added photos doctored to make...

20% of Your Facebook Friends Are Strangers
20% of Your Facebook
Friends Are Strangers
study says
Jan 14, 2011 8:37 AM CST

20% of Your Facebook Friends Are Strangers

60% are just acquaintances, study finds

(Newser) - A fifth of your Facebook friends are people you don’t even know—and three-fifths are just acquaintances, a study finds. The fact that only 20% of your friends are your actual friends may not come as a surprise to the average Facebook user, notes AllFacebook.com , but it’s...

Woman Jailed in Crash Linked to Facebook Feud

Torrie Emery gets up to 60 years after deadly accident

(Newser) - A woman who caused another car to crash in a high-speed chase was sentenced to 18 to 60 years in prison after pleading no contest to second-degree murder, the AP reports. Torrie Emery, 23, had been trading hostile Facebook posts with 21-year-old Danielle Booth over the affections of man in...

Signs We're a Little Too Obsessed With Facebook

Online schools' latest infographic defines our addiction

(Newser) - Houston, we have a problem. An addiction. To Facebook. But you already knew that, right? What you may not know is just how serious it is. Onlineschools.org defines our problem by way of a numbers-filled infographic. Some highlights:
  • Everybody's doing it: One in 13 inhabitants of planet Earth have
...

Amber Alerts Now on Facebook, Too
Amber Alerts Now
on Facebook, Too
Jan 12, 2011 5:57 PM CST

Amber Alerts Now on Facebook, Too

If you opt-in, they show up in your news feed

(Newser) - Facebook has joined the Amber Alert program, CNET reports. In Facebook's version, you opt-in to get missing-child alerts for your state or other states you designate. To get them in your news feed, go to Facebook's Amber Alert page, choose your state, and click the Like button. "It doesn't...

Facebook Pays Farm Bureau $8.5M for 'FB' Domain Name

'FB.com' pays off handsomely for the group

(Newser) - Lucky for the American Farm Bureau Federation that it shares two very important initials with another organization: Facebook paid the non-governmental group $8.5 million to acquire the domain name "FB.com," reports Reuters . Mark Zuckerberg's employees use the address internally, and when you're valued at $50 billion...

Virginia May Ban Teachers From 'Friending' Students

But some teachers worry it will halt new forms of teaching

(Newser) - Teachers Facebooking students: Usually not a good idea . And soon, in Virginia, it may not be allowed. The state's Board of Education is voting on a policy this week that would restrict teacher-student interaction via social networks, online games, and text messages, unless such interaction is through a platform provided...

Girls Arrested for Planning 'Attack a Teacher Day'

And planning it on Facebook, no less

(Newser) - Not a good idea: Inviting 100 of your friends to an event—planned on Facebook!—called “Attack a Teacher Day.” The student hosting the ill-advised event and five others who posted threats to teachers on the Facebook page were arrested last week and, not surprisingly, also suspended...

Nursing Student Wins Facebook Placenta Pic Case

Doyle Byrnes can return to school, says judge

(Newser) - Apparently it is OK to post pictures of yourself posing with someone else’s placenta on Facebook, at least according to one federal judge. Doyle Byrnes, the nursing student who was expelled after doing just that , won her case against Johnson County Community College and will be allowed to resume...

Stewart's New Punching Bag: Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook wants privacy?

(Newser) - Jon Stewart went after Mark Zuckerberg last night , arguing that Facebook is using its deal with Goldman Sachs to delay going public, since doing so would force the company to be more transparent (though that theory may not, in fact, be true ). What nerve. "Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want...

Expect Facebook to Be Publicly Traded Next Year

It will hit the 500-shareholder deadline this year

(Newser) - The Goldman-Facebook deal has triggered all kinds of speculation about whether Mark Zuckerberg will turn his little company into a publicly traded one, and the Wall Street Journal now makes things a little less abstract: Figure on Facebook going public by April 2012. It arrives at that date based on...

Facebook More Profitable Than We All Thought
Facebook More Profitable
Than We All Thought
HENRY BLODGET
Jan 6, 2011 10:53 AM CST

Facebook More Profitable Than We All Thought

Profit margin was an impressive 25% ... in 2009

(Newser) - Surprise, surprise: Facebook is actually “much more profitable than everyone thought,” writes Henry Blodget for Business Insider . Today’s Wall Street Journal piece ( summary here ) discloses that Facebook’s net income in 2009 was $200 million on $777 million in revenue. The revenue figure was known,...

LinkedIn Going Public —to Trump Facebook

Financial underwriters already selected, say sources

(Newser) - Facebook may not be going public just yet, but LinkedIn sure as heck is. The professional networking site will go public this year, multiple sources tell Reuters , although a company rep officially calls an IPO “just one of many tactics that we would consider.” Why are they doing...

Goldman's Top Unit Passed on Facebook Deal

Said unit includes many Goldman partners

(Newser) - Goldman Sachs wasn’t quite as eager to pump $450 million into Facebook as you might think. The deal was originally offered to, and shot down by, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, the prestigious group that many current and former Goldman partners invest with, sources tell the New York Times . The...

Woman's Facebook Suicide Threat Fell on Deaf Ears

Simone Back kills self, and none of her 1,000 friends took action

(Newser) - A British woman updated her Facebook status on Christmas Day to read, "Took all my pills be dead soon bye bye everyone." It set off a debate among some of her 1,000-plus Facebook friends about whether she was serious, but nobody took the step of actually finding...

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