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By K. Daniel GloverYesterday, Eyeblast.tv launched its “Liberals Behaving Badly� channel to expose the antics of lefties who do things like spit on military veterans, chant “Kill Michelle Malkin!� and swear at Fox News reporters. We promoted the channel on our Facebook “fan� page. Today, only hours after posting the note at Facebook, a friend notified me via Facebook that the administrators at the social-networking site have pegged our channel as “malicious.� Indeed it has.This note now appears when you click the “tiny URL� I created for the channel: “The link you have clicked has been identified by Facebook as...

Facebook claims it cracks down on fraudulent profiles and approves every name change that users make -- so why are they letting Barack Obama supporters to change their middle name to "Hussein"? Barack Hussein Obama's middle name is constant fodder for Obama opponents who wish to draw attention to the Muslim portions of his background. The Facebook name change is an attempt by Obama supporters to show solidarity with their candidate. Facebook claims it confirms all name changes before they are live and even pops up a list of requirements before name changes can be processed. This is what I...

WASHINGTON - Turns out, it is a small world. The "small world theory," embodied in the old saw that there are just "six degrees of separation" between any two strangers on Earth, has been largely corroborated by a massive study of electronic communication. With records of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people from around the world, researchers have concluded that any two people on average are distanced by just 6.6 degrees of separation, meaning that they could be linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances.

LifeNews.com Note: Maria Vitale is a LifeNews.com Opinion Columnist and the Education Director of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation. Vitale has written and reported for various broadcast and print media outlets, including National Public Radio, CBS Radio, and AP Radio. One of my favorite times of the day is logging onto Facebook, to see what my friends are up to.I find some friends have posted photos...others have joined groups ranging from UK Beekeepers to Evangelium Vitae...others have become fans of Mother Teresa or Ronald Reagan...and still others are giving status reports on what they did this past weekend. I love...

Imagine if the current crop of public figures had grown up during the Facebook era. We might have photos of John McCain in Florida slurping body shots off his stripper girlfriend. Barack Obama rolling a joint on a beach in Hawaii. George W. Bush passed out at a Yale frat party, 40-ounce beer bottles duct-taped to his hands. Hillary Rodham Clinton at a Wellesley peace rally, locking lips with her husband's future secretary of Labor, Robert Reich. It's one thing to hear that your elected representative had a wild time in college. It's entirely different to have pictorial proof. Would...

I have started a new facebook group called NObama. The point of the group is to combat all the crazed Obama supporters. If you all would joing and invite your friends, I think we can have an influence. Please feel free to post anything that might give people reason to not vote for Obama. Also, please be civilized in whatever you post. In a setting like this it is very easy to have somehing interpreted as hate and will simply push people away.

-- snip -- During this campaign season, Barack Obama has raised such unprecedented mountains of cash that he has broken every record in the annals of political fundraising. It’s enough to make him appear a veritable money wizard. If his own “high-flying words” are being “deployed in the service of cynical aims,” his contributors don’t seem aware of it, and the cash keeps rolling in. -- snip --As each day of this campaign passes, it becomes more and more like 1968, with the generation gap between young and old emerging as the factor of difference between our candidates. Obama is...

A British family’s £4.4 million Spanish home has been wrecked by 400 teenagers after their 16-year-old daughter used social networking sites to invite people from across the Costa del Sol to drink a “lot of alcohol”. After invites were posted on the Bebo and Facebook sites, rumours were spread that the Jodie Hudson’s parents did not mind the seven-bedroom house being trashed because they were getting divorced. By the end of the night, according to a friend of the privately-educated teenager, the house “looked like a war zone” with £6,000 worth of jewellery and clothes looted by some of the...

Stacy Snyder was weeks away from getting her teaching degree when she said her career was derailed by an activity common among many young teachers: posting personal photos on a MySpace page. Snyder, then 27, claimed in a federal lawsuit scheduled to go to trial Tuesday that Millersville University refused to give her a teaching credential after school administrators learned of a photo on her MySpace page labeled "drunken pirate." She said school officials accused her of promoting underage drinking after seeing the photo, which showed Snyder wearing a pirate hat and drinking out of a yellow cup. "I don't...

Public Profiles Raise Questions of Propriety and Privacy It's almost like Googling someone: Log on to Facebook. Join the Washington, D.C., network. Search the Web site for your favorite school system. And then watch the public profiles of 20-something teachers unfurl like gift wrap on the screen, revealing a sense of humor that can be overtly sarcastic or unintentionally unprofessional -- or both. One Montgomery County special education teacher displayed a poster that depicts talking sperm and invokes a slang term for oral sex. One woman who identified herself as a Prince William County kindergarten teacher posted a satiric shampoo...

Husbands who are not where they are supposed to be could soon be in danger of being “sniffed” out by a mobile phone service that gives suspicious partners an electronic map showing the location of their spouse. The Social Network Integrated Friend Finder (Sniff) is a new application, accessed via Facebook or mobile phone, which could bring an end to frantic “Where r u?” text messages. The service, popular in Scandinavia, promises to provide users with a detailed map of their friends’ locations, any time and anywhere. However, there are fears that Sniff could be abused by employers to remove...

A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged. The unnamed woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a man, the al-Arabiya website reported. The case was reported on a Saudi Arabian news site as an example of the "strife" the social networking site is causing in the Islamic nation.

Petraeus: Al Qaida Trying to 'Come Back In' U.S. military officials said there will be no significant reduction in coalition troops in the Baghdad area as part of an effort to stop the Al Qaida offensive in northern Iraq. They said Al Qaida was trying to reenter Baghdad and reverse its losses in 2007. "Al Qaida is trying to come back in," U.S. military commander Gen. David Petraeus said. "We can feel it and see it, and what we're trying to do is rip out any roots before they can get deeply into the ground." Read More Militants Assert...

AN Arab billionaire's son listed as a Facebook friend of a murdered socialite has been named by police as a prime suspect in the blonde's death. Yemen born Farooq Abdulhak, 26, was allegedly the last person to see Martine Vik Magnussen alive after leaving the exclusive Maddox Club with her early Friday morning. The Norwegian socialite's body was found two days later, partially buried under a pile of rubble in the basement of an exclusive London apartment building where Mr Abdulhak was reportedly living. The Daily Mail reported that Magnussen was believed to have been strangled, although investigators told the...

Facebook, which unwittingly had dropped itself smack in the middle of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reversed itself Monday and now is allowing Jewish settlers in the West Bank to list themselves as residents of Israel, not a country called "Palestine." Users of the social networking Web site who live in Maale Adumim, Ariel and other large Jewish settlements in the West Bank protested when Facebook automatically listed "Palestine" as their hometown, the Jerusalem Post reported. A settlers group accused the California-based company of having a political agenda. "I was surprised and disappointed to find that my hometown of Ariel is listed...

Hi all just a little vanity to let you know that my new Christian myspace clone is now up. http://www.faithark.com I have thought that there needed to be a really well done family safe myspace clone for a while. And looking around I did not see any I really liked so I started this one. The new free community offers personal profiles, video uploads, audio uploads, photo uploads, blogs and much more. And besides the use for personal profiles you are more than welcome to upload sermons, and setup profiles for your minitries etc. Any way take a look and...

Facebook, the popular social networking site, has decided that Jews who live in Judea and Samaria now live in 'Palestine' - a country that does not exist - and not in Israel. Facebook no longer allows members from Ma'aleh Adumim, Ariel, Betar Illit and other settlements over the Green Line to list their hometowns as situated in Israel, but instead provides only a preset location, with their country listed as "Palestine." "Someone at Facebook is simply prejudging whatever may or may not come about in future negotiations," said Czarny. "Who exactly decided on this computerized transfer of over a quarter-million...

Facebook founder is world's youngest billionaire NEW YORK (AFP) — Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old founder of social networking site Facebook, is the youngest ever self-made billionaire, according to an annual list published by Forbes magazine. "He is the youngest billionaire in the world right now and we also believe he is the youngest self-made billionaire in history," said the magazine's Associate Editor Matthew Miller, unveiling this year's super-rich list. The magazine put the former Harvard student's personal wealth at 1.5 billion dollars, based on what it said was a conservative valuation of five billion dollars for Facebook and Zuckerberg's estimated...

RADICAL British Jihadist groups are using Facebook and other social networking sites to recruit members and distribute extremist literature. A private Facebook group called Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah, the name of a successor organisation to the banned extremist group Al Muhajiroun, has been operating since early 2007. The Facebook group has links posted to extremist literature by the jailed radical preachers Abu Hamza al-Misri and Abu Qutada calling for the waging of armed jihad against the British and American governments. There is also literature demanding the expulsion of any Muslim who votes in elections or "provides assistance" to the 'kuffar',...

I recently started using the facebook network and I have found it to be very helpful in expanding my network of FRiends. If you are already on FACEBOOK and you have not already received a FRiend request from me please send me one so that we can connect... THANKS !! David http://profile.to/davidosborne/ <--- Click Here for shortcut link to my FACEBOOK PROFILE.. In addition if you are on LinkedIn please join my LinkedIN network as well http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidosborne1

Student Gets Frosty Answer To Snow-Day Call Student Puts Taped Message On Facebook UPDATED: 4:50 pm EST WASHINGTON -- At least one school official in Virginia could be hoping it never snows in his area again. That's because a student who called his home to ask why snow hadn't closed schools got a frosty response, which led to an online storm. Last week, the student called the listed home phone number for the chief operating officer of Fairfax County schools and asked why he hadn't closed schools after an estimated 3 inches of snow fell. The official's wife returned the...

Snow days, kids and school officials have always been a delicate mix. But a phone call to a Fairfax County public school administrator's home last week about a snow day -- or lack of one -- has taken on a life of its own. (snip) It started with Thursday's snowfall, estimated at about three inches near Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke. On his lunch break, Lake Braddock senior Devraj "Dave" S. Kori, 17, used a listed home phone number to call Dean Tistadt, chief operating officer for the county system, to ask why he had not closed the schools....

Anger as BBC sets up a rival to Facebook... for six-year-oldsBy PAUL REVOIR - More by this author » Last updated at 23:34pm on 24th January 2008  MyCBBC is being launched at a time when up to 1,800 staff are being axed  The new site will be aimed at children too young for Facebook The BBC is setting up a Facebook-style social networking site for children as young as six. The MyCBBC service is aimed at those who are too young for Facebook and other commercial rivals such as MySpace and Bebo. These sites have a lower age limit...

... The underlying hilarity of both Facebook and YouTube being tied to the election process is the theory that these online services lend some measure of energetic populism to an otherwise dull, corporate affair. Such reasoning would hold if you considered America's Funniest Home Videos and stoners as fresh examples of populism in the US. Which is to say these services exhibit all the populist weight of a visit by Stalin to the Ukraine. Still, the networks and politicians inspire with their ability to latch onto these Web 2.0 buzzwords in an attempt to secure a dose of hipness or...

MANCHESTER – Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney yesterday agreed to participate in the WMUR/ABC/Facebook presidential debates just three days before the primary Jan. 8. They join fellow Republicans John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson in officially agreeing to the debates scheduled for Jan. 5 at St. Anselm College. The forums begin at 7 p.m. Bartlett said all the major Democratic and Republican candidates’ campaigns have been involved in discussions about the debates. Democratic presidential candidates who have committed to the debates include Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Chris Dodd, Joseph Biden...

CINCINNATI - Three teenagers have sued school officials over lengthy suspensions they received for setting up a Facebook page that identifies a teacher as a pedophile. The entry on the social networking site included the face and last name of the teacher and referred to him as a member of the North American Man/Boy Love Association, which supports sex between men and boys. "They're not saying it's true, they're saying it's just parody," the students' attorney, Marc Mezibov, said Friday. The boys were suspended from Taylor High School for the maximum 90 days for creating the entry in November. They've...

Continuing in the vein of thought we’ve been running with on the last few campaign pieces we’ve published, Compete.com today published a study showing the levels of engagement each candidate in the race was achieving with the various presences each candidate has not only at their own campaign websites, but the individual social media presences scattered across the web as well. Who was the big winner? I’ll give you a hint: his initials start with Ron Paul. As it turns out, Ron Qaeda’s efforts to annoy America into paying attention to their candidate worked like a charm. Chances are, if...

I may potentially be overreacting, but after a long list of the media’s attempts to put down Congressman Duncan Hunter, I am prone to question everything....

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of Facebook Inc., apologized Wednesday for gaffes the company made in rolling out a controversial new advertising system, and said users would be able to disable the system entirely Facebook last week tweaked the ad program, known as Beacon, after more than 50,000 users raised privacy concerns about features that tell Facebook users what their friends are doing and buying on other Web sites. Facebook made the changes last week without much public comment from its executives, but Mr. Zuckerberg weighed in Wednesday of Facebook's corporate blog4. "We've made a lot of mistakes...

Target Corp. is learning the hard way that life in the blogosphere can put you right in the bullseye. The Minneapolis-based discount retailer is being outed in online blogs and discussed in college ethics classes after students allied with the company were told to "keep it like a secret" while singing the company's praises on the social network site Facebook.com. "Keep it a secret? That sounds unethical," said Rosie Siman, 21, a senior at the University of Georgia and a member of the Target Rounders. The group of mostly college students gets discounts, CDs and other prizes for marketing Target...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrian users of Facebook said on Friday the authorities had blocked access to the social network Web site as part of a crackdown on political activism on the Internet. "Facebook helped further civil society in Syria and form civic groups outside government control. This is why it has been banned," women's rights advocate Dania al-Sharif told Reuters. "They cut off communications between us and the outside world. We are used to this behavior from our government," said Mais al-Sharbaji, who set up a Facebook group for amateur Syrian photographers. There was no comment form the government, which...

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LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of young people are putting themselves at risk of identity fraud by leaving their "electronic footprint" on Internet Web sites and blogs, the country's privacy watchdog has warned. Concerned about the explosion of personal information available online, the Information Commissioner's Office (IOC) has launched official guidelines for millions of people who use networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. The guidance includes warnings that a "blog is for life" and "reputation is everything" while entries can leave a permanent "electronic footprint" on the Internet. The report said that the future of almost three-quarters of young...

Beirut - In the old days, many Lebanese used to associate Syrians with either dusty soldiers or wretched men coming for cheap labor. This is why the sight of spiffy young Syrian men and women in our Starbucks coffees browsing the web can seem odd to some (Except for Hamra residents who are used to seeing Syrian AUB students) As Mark Mackinnon writes in the Globe and Mail, many young cyber dissidents are settling in Beirut where "they feel free to express their opinions and continue their political activism." "It’s a safe place for us as Syrians. All the other...

Here's your chance to make a cameo appearance in Fred's Presidential campaign. Make a video telling us why you support Fred Thompson for President and upload it using the form below. We'll share these videos with all of our supporters on Fred08.com, and allow you, and them, to pick the best one. Here's your chance to be a star. Submit your video now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sure, Fred Thompson is an accomplished lawyer, prosecuting criminals in Tennessee before serving as counsel on the Watergate hearings. And yes, he served the people of Tennessee as a common sense, conservative Senator for eight years....

The BBC has frequently been accused of having a liberal bias. But now the corporation's own staff appear to have confirmed this by revealing their political views on the networking website Facebook. A survey of BBC employees with profiles on the site showed that 11 times more of them class themselves as "liberal" than "conservative". Critics seized on the figures as evidence that the supposedly impartial corporation, paid for by the licence fee, is dominated by liberals. All Facebook members can record their political views in their profile – choosing between very conservative, conservative, moderate, liberal, very lib "other". They...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft Corp. agreed to invest $240 million for a 1.6% stake in Facebook Inc. that values the social-networking site at $15 billion, beating Google Inc. in a closely watched contest.</p> <p>As part of the deal, the two companies expanded their existing advertising agreement. Microsoft, which previously handled Facebook's U.S. ad sales, will now also sell the site's international advertising.</p>

When I first met Mark Zuckerberg, he seemed as much a visitor to his surroundings as I was. It in Facebook's boardroom in Palo Alto, and Zuckerberg hadn't spend a lot of time there. He wondered aloud to his media aide why we were meeting in such a big and off-putting formal space. His comments caught me off-guard. I expected a guy who has become as rich and famous as Zuckerberg to more fully embrace it. And then I thought, "Of course he feels awkward about his surroundings. He's only 23 years old." It's been like that from the beginning...

Microsoft is weighing up taking a stake in Facebook in a move that could value the social networking site at $10 billion (£5 billion) and trigger a bidding war. It is understood that the world’s largest software developer is considering paying between $300 million (£149 million) and $500 million for a 5 per cent stake in Facebook. A move by Microsoft would almost certainly trigger counter interest from a clutch of rivals including Google, the leader in search advertising, and Viacom, the media giant. Talks between Microsoft and Facebook are thought to be at an early stage and Facebook is...

At least 269 convicted New Jersey sex offenders had profiles on MySpace, according to information provided by MySpace in response to civil subpoenas issued by State Attorney General Anne Milgram. What are the chances that these predators created profiles exclusively for MySpace and no other websites? Probably not good, but Milgram wants to know for sure. She has sent a letter to a dozen Internet social networking sites to determine whether convicted New Jersey sex offenders have created profiles on their websites. The letter was sent to Xanga.com, Facebook, Community Connect, TagWorld, Bebo, MyYearbook.com, Tagged, Friendster, LiveJournal, Imeem, Hi5, and...

Social Networking Class War: MySpace Vs. Facebook Claire Cain Miller 07.23.07, 6:00 AM ET A flurry of recent articles have observed that young people are leaving MySpace for Facebook in droves, setting off speculation that MySpace is becoming the latest victim of fickle teens following the hot new thing. Not so, says University of California, Berkeley, researcher Danah Boyd. Not all teens are leaving MySpace, she wrote in a recent essay--instead, they're splitting up along class lines. Boyd confirms what teens in any high school across the country already know: Affluent kids from educated, well-to-do families have been fleeing MySpace...

Facebook Inc. has bucked the Silicon Valley acquisition trend, remaining independent of larger technology companies. Now the social-networking start-up is seeking ways to reach the big leagues on its own. On Thursday, the Palo Alto, Calif., company will announce a new strategy to let other companies provide their services on special pages within its popular Web site. These companies will be able to link into Facebook users' networks of online friends, according to people familiar with the matter. For instance, an online retailer could build a service in Facebook to let people recommend music or books to their friends, based...

Mitt Romney's campaign has removed his account from the popular social-networking website, Facebook. There has also been questions whether presidential candidates using Facebook violates any of the campaign finance act disclosure requirements. Reference: Mitt Report Thoughts?

This is Richard Reed Pannell. He's a student at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA. On Saturday, he was minding his own business, taking a shower in this house he shares with classmates... ...when an unhinged stranger--a raving leftist who had tracked him down on social networking site Facebook--barged in and attacked him and his roomies after impersonating a military recruiter. This is the accused assailant, Andrew Stone, a UMW graduate: After I linked the Fredericksburg Freelance-Star's sparse account here on Tuesday, Pannell wrote me last night with the bizarre and unnerving details not yet reported (or...

Is Mitt Romney being paid by Facebook?

Romney Campaign Making MONDAY Facebook Push, Part II More Behind the Scenes Orchestration Updated... From: Stephen Smith To: Name Removed Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 Subject: Governor Romney and Facebook Governor Romney’s profile is up! http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=579505643 Remember to join, share, promote it on your group’s page, and then contact all of your personal friends and as many of your group members as you can … so that they can do the same! Stephen B. Smith Director of Online Communications Romney for President Exploratory Committee, Inc. www.MittRomney.com To read the full message go to: http://www.mittreport.com/

Mitt Romney on Facebook

Romney Campaign Making MONDAY Facebook Push Message from Stephen Smith (Boston, MA) From: Stephen Smith (Boston, MA) To: Name Removed Subject: Governor Romney and Facebook Message: I’m Stephen Smith, Director of Online Communications for Romney for President Exploratory Committee. First of all, I want to thank you for your work promoting Governor Romney and his potential candidacy at Facebook. No other Republican considering running for President in 2008 has anywhere near the level of organic support across the web and I consider that a tremendous resource as we look ahead. We are going to need you and others like you...

AT 22, Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard dropout, is being labelled as the next Bill Gates. But even the Microsoft founder might have hesitated before blowing the chance of a $1.6 billion (£819m) offer for his fledgling business. Zuckerberg, founder of the Facebook social networking website, has told Yahoo!, the internet giant, that $1 billion is not enough to sell out. Now leaked documents suggest that Yahoo! was willing to raise its bid to $1.6 billion. Facebook, which he launched as a service for Harvard students in 2004, has become the seventh busiest website on the internet, and with 13m users...

...Ms. Thompson belongs to a fringe of Internet users now renouncing MySpace and other social-networking sites -- not in spite of their popularity, but because of it. That highlights a dilemma facing News Corp.'s MySpace and Facebook Inc.: While it takes a critical mass of users to make these sites work, having too many users alienates some, especially when they attract an ever-growing cacophony of advertising and in some cases, spam. ...advertisers take advantage of the "friend request" function and send out requests that are really just advertisements. And programs have cropped up that can automatically send mass friend requests...