Flotsam & Jetsam
Confessed Teen Killer’s Social Networking Hobbies: ‘Killing People’
5:04PM Azaria Jagger | Alyssa Bustamante’s MySpace, Facebook and YouTube profiles are eerie in that “teen who engages in self-injurious behaviour and bullshits about being tough” way. Except, when she lists “killing people” as a hobby? Police say that part was true. More »
Online
Facebook Named In Federal Class-Action Suit Over Scammy Ads
4:50AM Ryan Tate | Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $US5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither company’s top-drawer investors can be happy. More »
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Papers Find Facebook Status Too Risque To Print
9:39PM Ravi Somaiya | The Post and the Times both covered this story, about a man accused of robbery whose alibi was a Facebook status update. Both papers though, censored the update itself, which was apparently “indecipherable”. Except it wasn’t. More »
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9:49AM Jess McGuire | If I’m honest with myself, I am absolutely guilty of updating my Facebook status regularly without having anything of any importance to say. Nevertheless, I still roll my eyes and make fun of other people who do the same thing. But what do I know? Turns out updating your status constantly might stop you from being sent to the hoosegow! I’m in the pokie, Tina! I’m in the joint! The slammer! The clink! The can! More »
Incessantly Updating Your Facebook Status CAN Be A Good Idea!
9:49AM Jess McGuire | If I’m honest with myself, I am absolutely guilty of updating my Facebook status regularly without having anything of any importance to say. Nevertheless, I still roll my eyes and make fun of other people who do the same thing. But what do I know? Turns out updating your status constantly might stop you from being sent to the hoosegow! I’m in the pokie, Tina! I’m in the joint! The slammer! The clink! The can! More »
Online
Class Action Suit In The Works For Victims Of Social Gaming Scams
8:39AM Ryan Tate | Facebook and MySpace might finally pay the price for the big social gaming scandal: At least one law firm is investigating whether to launch a class action suit on behalf of duped users. More »
People
New Photos Reveal ‘Mark Zuckerberg’ Wore Nothing But Hoodies
3:36AM Ryan Tate | Collegiate Mark Zuckerberg just wore an endless series of grey hoodies, according to new photos a student sent us from the set of The Social Network. Hey, the young cyborg was starting Facebook, not a fashion house. More »
Big Screen
First Pic Of Justin Timberlake As Facebook President
9:12AM Ryan Tate | It’s always been tough to imagine Justin Timberlake fitting into a movie about the geeky origins of Facebook, even if he was slated to play hard-partying advisor and “founding president” Sean Parker. That mental struggle is over. More »
Big Screen
First Shots From Facebook Movie
6:48AM Nicholas Carlson | The movie about how Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin started Facebook — called The Social Network — is shooting at Johns Hopkins University today, All Facebook reports. More »
Online
The Secret Shame Of Social Networking: Scammers
4:42AM Ryan Tate | Silicon Valley pundits like to talk about social media as a potential geyser of cash. What they leave out is that one of the only ways social networks like Facebook, MySpace have done that is joining league with online scammers. More »
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