MySpace, Facebook and Social Networking
Computer security firm Sophos has warned that scammers are duping Facebook users with a bogus “Dislike” button that slips malicious software onto machines.
There is no “Dislike” version of the “Like” icon that members of the world’s top social networking website use to endorse online comments, stories, pictures or other content shared with friends.
Justin Bieber posted a teenager’s telephone number on Twitter in a bid for revenge.
The 16-year-old singer - who has over 4.5 million followers on the social networking site - posted Detroit teenager Kevin Kristopik’s number on Twitter and added “Everyone call me 
or text”.
North Korea’s propaganda campaign has surged into the 21st century with a new Twitter account, hot on the heels of its foray into video with clips posted on YouTube.
The secretive regime has begun micro-blogging under the name uriminzok, with several posts pointing its few dozen followers to anti-Seoul and anti-US statements on the country’s official website www.uriminzokkiri.com.
SW Police are embracing the same social media site allegedly used to lure a Sydney teen to her death.
More than 10,000 people have signed up to follow NSW Police on Facebook since March, a milestone the force marked today with a special video thanking its new “friends”.
When it comes to their online image, Generation Y men are doing more grooming and preening than women, research has found.
The study, which looked at how different age groups use and perceive online social media like Facebook and Twitter, found men were more image-conscious than women.
It is a result Julia Gillard will hope repeats itself on election day.
Following her appearance on ABC’s Q&A last night, Ms Gillard was the No.1 trending topic on Twitter around the world for more than an hour.
ABC Radio reported this morning that there were more than 20,000 tweets last night with the #qanda hash tag sent by more than 5000 people.
As the Prime Minister stood down from a forklift yesterday during a warehouse visit, she lost her shoe. It was quickly replaced by a kneeling forklift driver named Rob Stewart, who said he was ”just doing the gentlemanly thing”.
We know this because the incident was immediately ”tweeted”, or reported on Twitter, the social media website many pundits expected would change the face of the election, but which has so far only served to make it more gossipy.
Facebook has acquired a broad set of patents on social networking covering the basic functions of just about any social app, ranging from friend lists to the news feed.
The patents were acquired from Friendster, which has been awarded a wide array of social networking patents over the last decade. According to VentureBeat, there are 18 patents in all; GigaOm reports the price of the portfolio was $US40 million ($43.75m).
Dread of the unknown hung in the air as Lynn France typed two words into the search box on Facebook: the name of the woman with whom she believed her husband was having an affair.
Click. And there it was, the stuff of nightmares for any spouse, cuckolded or not. Wedding photos. At Walt Disney World, no less, featuring her husband literally dressed as Prince Charming. His new wife, a pretty blonde, was a glowing Sleeping Beauty, surrounded by footmen.
Philippine police say they used Twitter and Facebook to track down a flamboyant gang of young men and women who robbed the rich to feed their drug habits.
Police killed their leader Ivan Padilla, 23, and arrested three others over the past week following a rash of vehicle thefts targeting Manila’s high society, city police spokesman Superintendent Rommel Miranda said.