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Five things you should never do on Facebook (or anywhere else)

Posted March 29, 2012 - 2:19 pm

What you say and do online can land you in divorce court, the unemployment line, or prison. Check out these five real-life tales of social media woe.
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Yes, Mr. Zuckerberg, people do care about their privacy

Posted February 26, 2012 - 12:16 pm

A new Pew Research survey shows that more Americans than ever are choosing to go private on Facebook and Twitter. It's time to for the "privacy is dead" lie to die.
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Rupert Murdoch finally admits what everyone else already knew

Posted January 13, 2012 - 2:35 pm

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch tweets that his company made a huge blunder with social networking roadkill Myspace.
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Myspace reveals new strategy, sucks media oxygen from Apple event

Posted October 4, 2011 - 2:21 pm

Taking advantage of a lull in tech news this week, the company that just bought Myspace unveils a new strategy to marketers and advertisers in New York.
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Rupert Murdoch paid wife nearly $300K as MySpace China 'strategic' adviser

Posted July 11, 2011 - 2:26 pm

News Corp. investors sue media baron for using company to "enrich himself and his family members."
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MySpace is now their space – and so is all your MySpace data

Posted June 30, 2011 - 1:40 pm

We’ve all had our youthful indiscretions. That time you “borrowed” dad’s car without asking and wrapped it around a pole. The time you drank too much at your friend’s wedding and puked all over the bridegroom’s shoes. The day you signed up for a MySpace account.
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Is Facebook really 'hated' more than Bank of America?

Posted June 29, 2011 - 12:39 pm

Social networking giant's low customer satisfaction rating could hint at problems ahead.
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Myspace carcass attracts two buzzards-- oops! We meant 'bidders'

Posted June 28, 2011 - 4:27 pm

Someday Rupert Murdoch may laugh about this whole Myspace thing. But probably not right now.
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Facebook Fatigue has begun

Posted June 13, 2011 - 2:45 pm

Facebook membership is down in the U.S., while global growth eases. Will Facebook peak before its IPO?
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News Corp. fielding huge Myspace offers in crazy bidding frenzy! Oh, wait...

Posted June 6, 2011 - 9:25 am

News Corp. is looking for a partner -- any partner -- to help it run Myspace.
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Report: Group of Facebook investors eager to dump shares

Posted April 28, 2011 - 11:45 am

A group of Facebook shareholders, including employees, is trying to sell $1 billion worth of shares on the secondary market.
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Turns out relentless Facebook self-promoters are narcissists!

Posted April 6, 2011 - 8:57 pm

New research concludes that college students who use Facebook and other technology platforms to proclaim their awesomeness -- rather than connecting with other human beings -- exhibit classic signs of narcissism.
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News Corp. to auction off MySpace on eBay

Posted February 3, 2011 - 12:10 pm

OK, maybe I'm jumping the gun with the eBay thing, but at this point News Corp. has to put everything on the table because Myspace is sinking faster than Sarah Palin's presidential prospects.
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Ad invasion of Twitter just beginning

Posted January 24, 2011 - 2:52 pm

Microblogging service Twitter, which is ambitiously trying to grow revenue, is expected by Internet research firm EMarketer to more than triple advertising sales this year to $150 million.
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News Corp. so confident about MySpace comeback that they're trying to dump it

Posted January 13, 2011 - 2:21 pm

Apparently Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. isn't all that into "agile and flexible." Or maybe it's the "unprofitable" part of MySpace that's prompting its parent company to unload the troubled former leader in social networking.
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Myspace as cautionary tale

Posted January 11, 2011 - 5:15 pm

Three years ago Myspace was on top of the social networking world. Now it's fighting for survival. There's a lesson in this for other Internet properties, including Facebook.
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Not everyone loves Facebook as an investment

Posted January 4, 2011 - 4:31 pm

Social networking phenomenon Facebook enters the new year as arguably the tech company with the most buzz.
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MySpace gives up, allows links to Facebook

Posted September 15, 2010 - 7:00 am

How the mighty have fallen: after being redesigned to look more like Facebook, the site now just allows you to sync your posts to that more popular site.
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MySpace, Facebook involved in gruesome murder case

Posted June 16, 2009 - 10:00 am

A woman in Staten Island appears to have been killed over rumors spreading on MySpace that she was having an affair.
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MySpace status: "Wanted"

Posted June 3, 2009 - 10:00 am

That's what it says on bank robber Joseph Northington's MySpace page, but he'll actually want to update that to "caught".
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Woman MySpaces revenge vandalism spree

Posted January 13, 2009 - 11:44 am

If someone angrily declares "you can't prove anything," it behooves said person not to take pictures of that-which-can't-be-proven and post them on MySpace.
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Oklahoma tax authority scopes MySpace for tax cheats

Posted October 1, 2008 - 12:23 pm

Kegheadz, an Oklahoma party-planning service run by college students, told the local tax authorities that they'd planned fewer than 20 parties over the past two years, netting less than $2,000 in profits. But the company's MySpace page told a much different story -- and the state has sent them a bill for $320,000.
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Facebook at Work: Stop or Support?

Posted July 17, 2008 - 12:20 pm

Network World just ran a story reporting a survey of about 200 human resources professionals at major companies. They found that only one in four actively blocks employee access to Facebook and other social networking sites. Yet 60 percent of companies contacted have no specific policy regarding Facebook and MySpace et al during the work day. Could be they'll block them when management finds out what people are actually doing during the day.
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