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How to Manage
Your Passwords
From the Grave

Jan 25, 2010 4:43 AM CST

How to Manage Your Passwords From the Grave

From Facebook to bank accounts, online afterlife a thorny legal area

(Newser) - These days grieving relatives have a new problem to contend with: managing the Facebook, Flickr, and eBay accounts of the dead. As people trust ever more of their lives to the Internet, from email and online banking to identities on Second Life, very few have considered what exactly will happen...

Reporters Try to Live on Twitter, Facebook Alone

Jan 22, 2010 11:10 AM CST

Reporters Try to Live on Twitter, Facebook Alone

Journalists will hole up in French farmhouse, use only social media

(Newser) - Five journalists plan to lock themselves in a French farmhouse and try gathering news using only Facebook and Twitter. During their 5-day sojourn, the journalists will be cut off from all other links to the outside world—there will be no TVs, and other web surfing is strictly prohibited. Then...

Sarah Palin Will Campaign
for McCain, Bachmann

Jan 20, 2010 1:50 PM CST

Sarah Palin Will Campaign for McCain, Bachmann

Fox personality keen on 'commonsense conservative principles of liberty'

(Newser) - Sarah Palin is buoyed by the Republicans’ “truly amazing” win in Massachusetts yesterday, and is prepared to stump for GOP candidates in this year’s midterm elections. The erstwhile Alaska governor singles out particular candidates in a Facebook post, including Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, and...

'Pants' Not Just
on the Ground—
It's Everywhere

REMIX EXPLOSION

Jan 20, 2010 10:51 AM CST

'Pants' Not Just on the Ground— It's Everywhere

Song gets millions of clicks on YouTube, spurs remixes

(Newser) - Not surprisingly, the award for first viral video hit of 2010 goes to American Idol audition song “Pants on the Ground.” After 62-year-old “General” Larry Platt introduced his masterpiece to the world last Wednesday, it took off, garnering 1 million Facebook fans and several million YouTube clicks...

Social Media:
Sports Fans'
Best Friends

5 REASONS TO GET ON

Jan 17, 2010 3:03 PM CST

Social Media: Sports Fans' Best Friends

Get real, inside connections with athletes

(Newser) - Being cooped up during the winter can be tough on some, but not hard-core sports fans. And social networking adds a new dimension, so if you’re still on the fence about Twitter et al., former NBA star Jalen Rose, writing for Mashable , tells you why you should get in...

New App Tells
Who Defriended You

FACEBOOK POLITICS

Jan 15, 2010 12:36 PM CST

New App Tells Who Defriended You

iPhone app will keep you up to date on Facebook friends list

(Newser) - Want to know who unfriended you on Facebook? There’s an app for that. Defriended, released in Apple’s app store week, will scan your Facebook friends list, then rescan it each time you open the program, and alert you to any changes. The app will run you 99¢, ABC...

Facebookers Back
Conan O'Brien

'i'm with coco'

Jan 13, 2010 4:26 PM CST

Facebookers Back Conan O'Brien

Profile pics proclaim fans' allegiance to 'Coco'

(Newser) - With Conan O'Brien facing an uncertain fate at NBC, fans on Facebook have embraced an image of the comedian, switching it to their profile pictures to show support, notes Mashable . The movement, dubbed "I'm With Coco" by creator Mike Mitchell, reportedly has some employees of NBC and the Tonight ...

Fugitive Who Taunted
Cops on Facebook Busted

SURPRISE, SURPRISE

Jan 13, 2010 12:29 PM CST

Fugitive Who Taunted Cops on Facebook Busted

Brit 'Lazie' Lynch not-so-escaped con now after 4-month run

(Newser) - A British burglar who busted out of prison in September and kept a quasi-amusing record of his flight on Facebook has himself been busted by police. As recently as New Year's Eve, Craig “Lazie” Lynch was in London, and broadcast that fact to his 40,000 friends: He described...

Facebook Hands Out
Free Security Software

mcafee for the masses

Jan 13, 2010 8:45 AM CST

Facebook Hands Out Free Security Software

Site partners with McAfee to battle rampant cyber attacks

(Newser) - Battered by a recent wave of cyberattacks, Facebook is offering its 350 million users a free six-month trial of McAfee's Internet Security Suite. Hoping to protect users from viruses and other threats, it also announced yesterday that it's partnered with McAfee to develop an online tool to scan and clean...

Facebook Privacy:
Two Opposing Takes

blogger vs. blogger

Jan 12, 2010 11:08 AM CST

Facebook Privacy: Two Opposing Takes

Maybe 'privacy' is evolving; or this is just about making money

(Newser) - Facebook's decision to make users' private data public is still reverberating, and Michael Arrington wishes the "Luddites" opposed to the development would just be quiet and face up to a modern reality: "Privacy is already really, really dead." Big companies already know the intimate details of our...

Virtual 'Suicide Machine'
Erases Your Online Life

Jan 9, 2010 12:16 PM CST

Virtual 'Suicide Machine' Erases Your Online Life

Facebook isn't happy, fights back

(Newser) - A new site promises to set people free from the chains of social networking, and Facebook is not amused. The site, Web 2.0 Suicide Machine , is designed to permanently remove people's accounts from Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and LinkedIn. (See the video for details.) It proudly claims nearly 900...

Women Post Bra Colors, Confusing Men

Beige! Blue!

Jan 8, 2010 5:44 AM CST

Women Post Bra Colors, Confusing Men

Men, and others left out of the joke, scratch their heads

(Newser) - Yesterday's strangest web trend: bra-themed Facebook updates. Women—and some men—used one-word updates like "red," "white" and "pink," to let everyone know the color of their undergarments. Unsurprisingly, "white," "black" and "beige" were most popular. Some got creative, adding words...

On Shelves Soon: Facebook-Flavored VitaminWater

Jan 7, 2010 10:00 PM CST

On Shelves Soon: Facebook-Flavored VitaminWater

'Connect' will have black cherry-lime flavor, nutrients

(Newser) - If you’re one of those people who can’t get enough of Facebook, good news is coming to your corner store in March, in the form of VitaminWater’s new flavor. “Connect,” a black cherry-lime concoction, is the result of a contest on the drink’s Facebook...

13 Annoying
Facebook
Habits

AND TWITTER, TOO

Jan 7, 2010 4:27 PM CST

13 Annoying Facebook Habits

Please, please, please don't make a 'fan' page for yourself

(Newser) - Believe it or not, your Facebook friends don’t need to hear about every single yoga class you attend, the details of your child’s potty training, or how you feel about each and every play in a baseball game. Amelia McDonell-Parry lists 13 social networking faux pas, on The...

What It Means
When Straight
Girls 'Marry'

OPINION

Jan 6, 2010 11:31 AM CST

What It Means When Straight Girls 'Marry'

Decoding today's teenage love vocabulary is a difficult task

(Newser) - A generation ago, gay teens hid their sexual orientation from everyone around them—now, straight girls “marry” each other on Facebook and write each other love poems, while parents struggle to catch up with the language of today’s love. “Was there a difference between going out, hanging...

Palin: US Needs a Leader,
Not a 'Law Professor'

Jan 5, 2010 6:44 PM CST

Palin: US Needs a Leader, Not a 'Law Professor'

She calls President Obama's strategy on terror 'fatally flawed'

(Newser) - Sarah Palin weighed in on the nation's security today, calling President Obama's approach "fatally flawed" on her Facebook page . "The real nature of the terrorist threat requires a commander-in-chief, not a constitutional law professor," the Republican governor-turned-author writes. Among other things, she blasted the idea of giving...

Escaped Con
Teases Cops
on Facebook

Dec 29, 2009 2:56 PM CST

Escaped Con Teases Cops on Facebook

1,000-plus fans follow 'rude' posts by UK man

(Newser) - A prisoner in the UK who flew the coop in September isn’t keeping a low profile—instead, he’s got one on Facebook. Craig “Lazie” Lynch has been posting photos of himself flipping the bird at police as he sends messages to more than a thousand supporters, the...

Facebook the No. 1
Christmas Website

MAFIA WARS VS. FARMVILLE

Dec 29, 2009 2:00 PM CST

Facebook the No. 1 Christmas Website

Social network crowds out Google and Yahoo for first time

(Newser) - Facebook got a big present this holiday season: It was the No. 1 US website on Christmas and on Christmas Eve. Facebook, which lagged behind Google in second place last year, trounced that site and rival Yahoo—though the search engines generated more traffic throughout the balance of the year....

Schools Should Harness,
Not Ban Social Networks

OPINION

Dec 28, 2009 8:20 AM CST

Schools Should Harness, Not Ban Social Networks

'Meet kids where they live: online'

(Newser) - Schools that ban teachers and students from social media may think they're keeping classrooms safe from the harassment, bullying and exploitation of social networks, but actually they're missing a chance to harness the tremendous energy kids devote to social media, Nicholas Bramble writes on Slate . By bringing Facebook, MySpace and...

Facebook
Teen Sex
Blackmailer
Found Guilty

Dec 23, 2009 6:48 AM CST

Facebook Teen Sex Blackmailer Found Guilty

Anthony Stancl now faces up to 30 years in jail

(Newser) - A Wisconsin teen accused of using Facebook to blackmail fellow students into performing sex acts has been found guilty of two counts of sexual assault. Prosecutors say Anthony Stancl, 19, posed as a girl on the social networking site and tricked seven boys in his high school into sending him...

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