Category: MySpace

Poor libraries -- they just want to fill our kids' heads with porn and violence. Is that so wrong? First, libraries were forced to start filtering out obscene content in 2000. Then came the Patriot Act, which granted the government the right to examine the books you checked out and the sites you visited on a library's public computers. Now, lawmakers are trying to ban children from accessing ...

We've already written about how some people are posting somewhat questionable pictures of themselves and their drunken antics to Facebook. Those pictures, while embarrassing, were mostly harmless. Today, however, we have a report on how some people are posting other pictures of their drinking habits social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace, pictures that are often resulting in extended ...

Ooohhh, it's the Germans! The EU's paragon of efficiency has done another efficient thing -- created a no-nonsense, less-fun version of Facebook. Entrepreneur Ehssan Dariani, after failing at his male cosmetics line, decided to turn his attention to social networking. And network he did. His site, studiDV launched in 2005, and became the largest social networking site in Europe within a few ...

You might think that teachers and students on MySpace would be like oil and water -- two things that aren't too likely to mix. It's odd to think that a student would really want to 'friend' their teacher, but there is a big enough fear of such an overture taking place in Southern Mississippi that a school district there has gone ahead and banned all friending or texting between students and ...

It used to be that so called cyber-bullying merely meant harassing someone via instant message or saying mean things on MySpace, but online bullying is increasingly becoming a full-on public multimedia blitz of photos, videos, and fake user profiles. Take for example the case of Ricky Alatorre, a 16 year-old with plenty of book smarts, but not a whole lot of friends. Someone snapped a picture ...

Online social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace are now leading to the decline of college year books and other printed alumni publications. Perhaps it should come as no surprise, considering the goals of Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes when they launched Facebook from their Harvard dorm rooms back in 2004. Facebook was originally intended to be an alternative, or ...

UK electronics purveyor PC World has been showing of its concept of a technology-saturated deck chair that may have many gadget fetishists drooling, but leaves those with more reasonable sensibilities a little perplexed. The chair is made from solar fabric (which we imagine would be uncomfortably warm) for powering MP3 players, laptops, and the like. The top of the chair hides a long range Wi-Fi ...

Where will the madness end? We've seen people dumped on Facebook, fired because of Facebook, and now one football (that's what they call soccer across the pond) player has inadvertently revealed, thanks for Facebook, that he was trying out for a different team, unbeknownst to his current club. UK soccer player Ashley-Paul Robinson, currently a member of the Crystal Palace team, updated his ...

The New York City Department of Health is pretty all right. Yesterday it launched a new MySpace campaign, 'NYC Teen MindSpace,' designed to help teens deal, on their own turf. The DOH says that about a third of NYC youth admit to feeling depressed, and 20% say they don't talk to anyone when they feel bad or have a serious problem. Mindspace, which can be accessed like any other MySpace profile, ...

Gender has long been optional for Facebookers. Those who'd rather be a little mysterious could just leave gender as unspecified and let people take a guess based on a profile picture (assuming one was provided). Unfortunately, that resulted in some vague automated status updates from the site, with everyone updating information about themself -- a word that isn't exactly grammar-friendly. Now ...

Even the charmed lives of beauty queens can be dragged through the mud by Facebook photos taken far away from the pageant stage. Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo discovered this firsthand over the summer when she was the target of a strange "blackmail plot" centered on profile images of her partying and carrying on in a less than royal fashion. She ended up releasing the photos herself, and soon ...

Oh no he didn't. Oh yes he did! As of this very moment in human history, David Hasselhoff -- known to his fans as "The Hoff", and to his car as "Michael" -- has his own social-networking site. You know, like MySpace and Facebook ... but with everything somehow relating back to, well, David Hasselhoff. It's called -- get this -- 'Hoffspace.' Clever! The free site/service lets fans read the ...

Oh jeez. Since Facebook opened its doors to non Ivy-leagers, everyone from Radar to your Mom is coming out with 'Netiquette guides that tell users how to act right while Facebooking. London's Independent just came out with another such guide, which tells us things that we already know but wish certain-people-who-shall-remain-nameless would figure out. Below is a summary with some added insights ...

While some say the rise of Web sites such as Google and Wikipedia are leading to a dumbing down of America, the results of a recent poll suggest all these fancy Internets are in fact enabling people to be more well-informed, especially when it comes to politics. The Pew Internet and American Life Project says that many Americans are rejecting the simple sound-byte style of modern political ...

When it comes to online social networks, MySpace has long been the proverbial 800-pound gorilla. Lately that's been changing, with Facebook quickly bulking up and catching its rival, signing up far more people each month than MySpace. As of two months ago, the 'Book (founded by Marc Zuckerberg, pictured) finally surpassed its rival, becoming the most visited social network in the world. MySpace ...