Category: MySpace

Part of what has made MySpace so popular is the ability for bands to create their own pages and post a song or three online, enabling fans to then grab and share those songs on their own pages, showing their allegiance and letting friends rock out when they came by to visit. That functionality got a major boost yesterday when MySpace Music added the entire discography of artists from Sony BMG, ...

Sometime in middle school, an elderly belle visited our class to undertake the daunting task of refining the boorish manners of modern adolescents. Seated at lunchroom tables, in our T-shirts and grubby jeans, we learned to seat the young ladies, say an appropriate blessing, and lay our napkins in our laps before we set to cutting up ("Remember to draw the knife towards you.") reasonably sized ...

According to a recent survey by job site CareerBuilder.com of 3,169 hiring managers, one in five bosses screened potential staff via social networking profiles -- MySpace, Facebook, and the like. This number is up from 11-percent in 2006; in addition, another nine percent said that they do plan to start screening this way soon. The touchiest areas, unsurprisingly, were references to drinking ...

You know how we told you last week that most people don't know what social-networking is? Well, apparently the CIA and FBI are using this news to their advantage, and are looking to get all of their secret agents friending and messaging online like chatty tweens, creating a MySpace knockoff site especially for spies and other officials to connect and chat. The idea behind the site, called A-Space, ...

Everyone knows what Facebook and MySpace are, right? Facebook just hit 100-million users, and MySpace hit that mark more than two years ago. Mix in all the other various social networks out there and you surely have billions of people, right? How is it that only 42-percent of people know what a social network is? Marketing firm eMarketer asked 13,000 people in 17 countries whether they knew what a ...

Lindsay Lohan did a little venting on her MySpace blog, taking on her father and his spotlight-seeking ways. Lohan's incensed blog post came after her father, Michael, gave an interview to E! in which he claimed that Lindsay's gal-pal Samantha Ronson (pictured, above left) was using Lohan. In the post Lohan called her father a "bully," a "public embarrassment," and a "coward." The star goes on ...

Parents used to worry about kids sitting in front of the TV all day, but now it looks like the Internet has finally surpassed the boob-tube for time waster of choice with today's youth. According to DoubleClick Performics, a search marketing company, 83-percent of children between the ages of 10 and 14 spend at least 1 hour online each day. Only 68-percent of the same age group spent and equal ...

When will people learn? Stop posting stupid stuff on your Facebook page. The constant barrage of idiots losing girlfriends and jobs because they haven't learned the fine art of self-censorship on social networking sites is unnerving. Let us spell it out for you one more time -- employers will look at your MySpace/Facebook/Twitter/etc. page. We thought maybe after the tale of Kevin Colvin, who was ...

Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace are breaking down barriers between teachers and students, and, predictably, not everyone is happy about it. While many teachers are thrilled with the connections they're able to form with students outside of the classroom on the site, they also admit there is a fine line they must walk. A flurry of student-teacher sexual relationships has set off ...

A little over a month ago, a mini-trend among Obama supporters took off on Facebook where users changed their middle names to Hussein as a sign of solidarity with the Democratic nominee whose middle name has become fodder for right-wing conservatives. Supporters furious with certain media outlets' (cough... Fox News) insinuation that the name alone means Obama is unpatriotic, a terrorist, or a ...

We've already learned not to break up with others via Facebook status, or to advertise that you're looking for a new job (unless you've already left or lost your previous one). But how are we to know what other potential pitfalls avoid? Lucky for us, Wired put together a handy list of 10 things it is safe to assume should never make it to your Facebook status update. What specific faux pas, you ...

Parents are getting desperate in the battle to stay on-top of their kid's online activities. The preferred method of combat used to be occasionally sitting down at the PC with your child and/or picking up some filtering software, but that just isn't cutting it anymore. Kids are on social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, even if they're under the 13-year-old age limit. Even worse, many ...

To some this may seem ridiculous, but to those who have spent large swaths of time on MySpace keeping profiles for their beloved canine companions, DoggySpace makes perfect sense. DoggySpace is exactly what you think it is, a social networking Web site just for dogs. As is the case with any good social networking site, DoggySpace allows users to create unique profiles for their animals to share ...

Kellan Lutz, object of adolescent girls' desire and actor in multiple teen moo-vies, is about to get some street cred. The 19-year-old North Dakota native can be seen on the awesome HBO miniseries 'Generation Kill,' the latest project by the creators of our longtime addiction 'The Wire.' Boy's been busy breaking the hearts of middle American youths and shooting the CW's new 90210, but he still ...

If you have ever sent a thank you note to an interviewer that read anything like the above headline, you probably didn't get the job. Increasingly, candidates are sending off casual thank you e-mails and even text messages -- unfortunately, we're not joking -- that incorporate IM shorthand and emoticons. The problem is that many younger job-hunters don't realize this may be costing them that ...