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Egypt Inspired by Nameless Facebooker

User known only as 'El Shaheed' fueled protests

(Newser) - The protests rocking Egypt have been fueled in part by a man who died before they began: Khaled Said, who was reportedly killed by police last summer. That’s the name that heads a Facebook page that has been helping to organize the demonstrations—but the page’s creator, who...

LinkedIn Files to Go Public
 LinkedIn Files to Go Public 
Jan 28, 2011 4:39 AM CST

LinkedIn Files to Go Public

IPO seen as gauge of market interest in social networks

(Newser) - After weeks of speculation , LinkedIn has confirmed what many suspected—it will go public later this year. The career-focused social networking site filed a registration statement with the SEC yesterday, setting the stage for the company to become the biggest social network yet to land on Wall Street, reports Mashable...

Facebook Turning Your Status Updates Into Ads

Whether you like it or not

(Newser) - Are you ready to become an unpaid spokesman for all your favorite things? Facebook sure hopes so. The company has just rolled out a new advertising product called “sponsored stories” that will turn your posts into ads for companies you post about. In the example video, a user “...

Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego Head to Facebook

Watch out, FarmVille: The oldies-but-goodies are coming

(Newser) - Who needs virtual farming when you can go virtual hunting? The Oregon Trail—that classic computer game that brought us back to the America of 1848—is coming to Facebook on Feb. 2, and will be followed by Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? one week later. "...

Fix This Facebook Setting as Fast as You Can

Gawker: HTTPS encryption can keep you from getting hacked

(Newser) - Facebook has begun rolling out an important new protection, and Gawker's Ryan Tate says users should "jump on this" as soon they can. It's an encryption tool called Facebook HTTPS that will "keep any random jerk in the café from hijacking your account." Unfortunately, users have to...

Flirting on Facebook Counts as Foreplay

Men, women say social networking leads to bedroom more quickly

(Newser) - Looking for a way to minimize the time you spend trying to convince someone to hop in the sack? It turns out Facebook is the answer—in a sex survey from Shape and Men's Fitness magazines, 58% of men said flirting over Facebook and other social media helps them get...

Zuckerberg's Facebook Page Hacked

'Let the hacking begin,' writes Zuckerberg impostor

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg may need to fiddle with his privacy settings: The Facebook founder's fan page appears to have been hacked. An impostor, posting under what seems to have been Zuckerberg's identity, urged Facebook to transform itself into a "social business" in a post on Zuckerberg's own fan page yesterday,...

'Facebook Credits' to Be Mandatory for Games

Developers told to use credits as exclusive payment starting July 1

(Newser) - Kiss your Farmville Coins goodbye. Facebook is telling game developers that in 5 months they’ll be required to use Facebook Credits as their only means of charging users for their games, TechCrunch reports. Developers could theoretically still create in-game currencies like the aforementioned Farm Coins, but users would have...

Pope: Don't Let Online Friends Trump Real Ones

Social networking requires 'serious reflection,' says Benedict

(Newser) - Pope Benedict issued a warning to Facebookers, tweeters, et al today: Don’t let your online world overshadow your real one. While social networks offer "a great opportunity," he said, "It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of...

Germany Says 'Nein' to Facebook's Friend Finder

Privacy concerns forces Facebook to change invitation feature

(Newser) - Score one for Germany in its face-off with Facebook. Facebook has agreed to drop its controversial "Friend Finder" feature, which allows the social networking site to access users' address books and send invitations to the people in them. "For many, it wasn't clear at all how Facebook could...

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...

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