Social Networks Stories for 2012

Foursquare Will Display Users' Full Names By Default 101
Michigan Makes It Illegal To Ask For Employees' Facebook Logins 132
Instagram User Drop Claims Overblown 49
What Turned VR Pioneer Jaron Lanier Against the Web 212
China Tightens Internet Restrictions 83
Class-Action Lawsuit Goes After Instagram Terms of Service Changes 59
Facebook Test Will Let You Message Strangers For $1 325
Instagram Wants To Sell Users' Photos Without Notice 313
Google+ Chief Grounded From Twitter By Larry Page 135
Researchers Develop an Internet Truth Machine 87
The Web We Lost 255
Google CEO Larry Page Talks Apple, Android, Google+ 136
Facebook Says EU 'Right To Be Forgotten' Would Harm Privacy 277
Facebook Users Voting On Privacy, Instagram, Other Issues 80
Khan Academy: the Future of Taxpayer Reeducation? 386
Why Facebook Is Stressing You Out 227
Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas 486
Facebook To Eliminate Voting On Privacy Changes 52
Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine 299
UW Imposes 20-Tweet Limit On Live Events 196
Man Arrested For Photo of Burning Poppy On Facebook 534
Homeland Security Mining Social Media For Signs of Bio Attacks 96
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Add Forums To a Website? 259
Geomapping Racism With Twitter 409
Pull Lever, Don't Snap Shutter: It May Be Illegal To Post Your Ballot 383
Inside Social Media's Fake Fan Industry 63
UK Gov't Official Advises Using Fake Details On Social Networks 175
Judge Rules Defense Can Use Trayvon Martin Tweets 848
AOL's New Alto Client Is Visual Email, and You Don't Need a New Address 108
Twitter Censors German Neo-Nazi Group, Within Germany 227
Millions of Blogs Knocked Offline By Legal Row 162
Mozilla Details How Old Plugins Will Be Blocked In Firefox 17 152
Interviews: Ask Free Software Legal Giant Eben Moglen 56
Facebook Tests 'Want' Button To Hoard User Data, Save Its Stock Price 98
First Community Release of Diaspora 111
UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook 606
Your Facebook Likes Conveyed As Simulated Hugs 40
The Computer Science Behind Facebook's 1 Billion Users 113
Decentralized Social Networking — Why It Could Work 128
Curiosity Rover Makes First Foursquare Check-In On Another Planet 92
Facebook Privacy Boosted As Private Message 'Leak' Is Dismissed 44
Why Klout's Social Influence Scores Are Nonsense 98
Why Are We So Rude Online? 341
How Noah Kagan Got Fired From Facebook and Lost $100 Million 236
Illinois Prof Calls for a Federal Law To Safeguard Digital Afterlives 82
Privacy Watchdogs Want Facebook, Datalogix Deal Probed 8
California Employers Can't Ask For Your Facebook Password 363
ASIC Seeks Power To Read Your Emails 114
Can Foursquare Data Predict Where You Live? 55
Man Arrested In Greece For "Blasphemous" Facebook Page 412
Presentation Scales In Massive Online Courses; Does Interaction? 63
New Twitter Policies Put the Kibosh On Mashup Services 82
Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name 304
Facebook Disables Face Recognition In EU 96
Salesforce CEO Benioff: Future Software Will Look Like Facebook 156
Can a Court Order You To Delete a Facebook Account? 761
Twitter Hands Over Messages At Heart of Occupy Case 73
Mark Cuban Blames Himself For Losing Money On Facebook IPO 186
Bring On the Decentralized Social Networking 238
Twitter Based "Ted" System Warns of Earthquakes Earlier 64
Data-Mine Your Own Facebook Data With Wolfram Alpha 55
Japan Considers '911' Calls From Twitter, Social Networks 116
New iOS App Sends Users' Web Traffic Through Its Proxy Servers 83
Diaspora* Announces It Is Now a "Community Project" 124
Russia's Former KGB Invests In Political Propaganda Spambots 164
Judge Rejects Settlement In Facebook Sponsored Stories Case 47
Indian Gov't Bans Bulk SMS, Investigating Social Media 101
Twitter Restricts Client Developers 96
Obama Finally Beats Bieber Fever According To Klout 67
Detecting Depression From How (Not What) You Browse 163
How Google+ Punk'd The Oatmeal 218
In Vietnam: Being a Blogger Could Land You In Jail, Cost You Your Life 144
Inside the Real Economy Behind Fake Twitter Followers 75
Monitoring Weapons Bans With Social Media 71
Facebook Faces High-Level Staff Exodus 346
PlayStation Boss Defends Vita, Slams Social Gaming 147
Training Cops To Use Social Media Information 51
Flickr Photo Leads To New Insect Discovery 36
The Underground Economy of Social Networks 84
Former Facebook Employee Questions the Social Media Life 171
EA Sues Zynga For Copying Sims Game 197
Google+ Account Suspended? You Won't Find Out Why 341
'Wi-Fi Police' Stalk Olympic Games 268
Facebook Abstainers Could Be Labeled Suspicious 625
Apple Reportedly Considering Huge Investment In Twitter 90
"Bomb Threat" Tweet Conviction Overturned By UK Appeals Court 103
Microsoft Makes Skype Easier To Monitor 150
Apple Plans Hearing Aid Social Networking 70
Analyzing Tweets To Identify Psychopaths 266
Why You Shouldn't Write Off Google+ Just Yet 286
Facebook Loses Users, Satisfaction Higher at Google+ 274
Washington State To Allow Voter Registration Over Facebook 178
Even Silicon Valley's Prison Inmates Have Their Own Startup Incubator 88
Facebook "Like" System Devalued By Fake Users 99
Digg.com Sold To Betaworks For $500,000 193
Chinese Censors Are Being Watched 71
Social Networks, Suicide and Statistics 66
Twitter Can't Keep Protestor's Data From Cops 105
Facebook Says Your Email Is @Facebook 346
Reddit Cofounder Says Site Was Built By a Horde of Fake Accounts 192
2 New Social Networks With Very Different Political Twists 99
Apple Patents Polluting Facebook, Google Profiles 142
How Steve Jobs Changed Google Plus 243
Facebook Settles 'Sponsored Stories' Suit For $10M To Charity 34
Online Activities To Be Recorded By UK ISPs 312
Inside Facebook Data Mining Research Group 30
Spokeo Fined $800K By FTC For Marketing Its Services To Employers 81
House of Commons Could Force Social Networks To Identify Trolls 216
Facebook Launches App Center With Over 600 Apps 55
Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? 376
US Labor Board: It's OK To Discuss Work and Pay with Coworkers On Social Sites 289
Online Social Networks Can Be Tipped By Less Than 1% of Their Population 125
Why Facebook's Network Effects Are Overrated 183
Nintendo Reveals Wii U's Miiverse Social Network 183
Facebook Smartphone a Dumb Idea, Says Farhad Manjoo 128
New Rules Bring a "Credit Rating" For Users of Chinese Social Network 89
Twitter Bomb Joke Case Rolls Back Into UK Courts 174
New Cyberbullying Evidence Rules May Go Too Far 125
Coming Your Way... Less Intrusive Facebook Data Policies? 64
Is Facebook Going To Buy Opera? 226
Dark Days Ahead For Facebook and Google? 215
FBI Quietly Forms Secretive Net-Surveillance Unit 130
Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued Over IPO 445
Microsoft Tests Social Search Waters With 'so.cl' Network 135
Facebook Shares Retreat Below IPO Price 471
Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over 'Blasphemous' Images 226
Zuckerberg Updates Relationship Status To "Married" 335
Social Networking: The New Workplace Smoke Break 105
Online Loneliness At Google+ 456
Facebook Tests the Waters With Paid Perks 204
Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging 270
55,000 Twitter Accounts Hacked, Passwords Leaked 66
Password Protection Act: Bans Bosses Asking For Facebook Passwords 247
Twitter Rejects Prosecutors' Subpoena For a User's Data Without Warrant 168
Dealing With the Eventual Collapse of Social Networks 370
Brazil Retailer Using Facebook Likes On Its Clothing Hangers 112
Facebook Says It's Filtering Comments For Spam, Not Censoring Them 155
Missouri High School Principal Resigns After Posing As Student On Facebook 190
NYC Teachers Forbidden To "Friend" Students 238
GNU Media Goblin 0.3.0 Released 43
Cash For Tweets and Facebook Posts? Aussie Startup Pays You to Astroturf 156
Bill Banning Employer Facebook Snooping Introduced In Congress 199
Facebook 'Likes' Aren't Protected Speech 214
Facebook, Instagram, Ben Bernanke: Thank You For the New Tech Bubble 124
Posting Photos of Olympics Could Land You In Court 394
UT Dallas Professor Captures the Mobile Interactions of 175 Texas Teens 146
Zuckerberg Made Instagram Deal Alone 307
The Dead Past: the Biggest Threat To Privacy Is Us 130
Reddit Subpoenaed In Wrongful Death Lawsuit 303
Facebook To Buy Instagram For $1 Billion 162
Here's What Facebook Sends the Cops In Response To a Subpoena 153
Larry Page Issues Public Update On Google Changes 159
Toronto Police Use Facebook Picture in Online Lineup 227
Tensions Between Archivists and 'Occupy' Protesters Over Preserving the Movement 153
World's Creepiest iPhone App Pulled After Outcry 459
The Phantoms of Google+ 214
Chinese Internet Firms Punished For Permitting Spread Of Political Rumors 75
Gawker Media To Require Commenters' Facebook, Twitter, Or Google Logins 231
Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity 349
UK Man Jailed For 'Offensive Tweets' 922
Why Gay Men Are Worth So Much To Facebook 270
The TAG Challenge: $5k Global Manhunt Using Social Media 53
UT-Dallas Professor Adds 'Enemies' Feature To Facebook 112
Facebook Asserts Trademark On "Book" In New User Agreement 197
When Social Media Meets TV, Are the Results Worth Watching? 106
James Whittaker: Focus on Ads and 'Social' Destroying Google 236
Why Making Facebook Private Won't Protect You 550
School District Sued By ACLU Over Student's Free Speech Rights 466
The Worst Job In the Digital World 258
Have We Lost Our Privacy To the Internet? 222
LinkedIn Profiles Contain Fewer Lies Than Resumes 88
What The DHS Is Looking For In Your Posts 278
Users Spend More Time On Myspace Than Google+ 310
Yahoo Unfriends Facebook With Aggressive Patent Demands 59
Facebook Tests 'Safe' User Tag For Disasters 62
Google+ Unblocked In China; President Obama's Page Flooded With Comments 187
4 UK Urban Explorers Face Orders Not To Talk With Each Other For 10 Years 387
Ask Slashdot: Freedom From DRM, In the Social Gaming Arena? 71
Women More Likely To Unfriend Than Men 135
Pakistan Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System 97
Facebook Has 25 People Dedicated To Handling Gov't Info Requests 125
Man Ordered To Apologize To Wife On Facebook 400
Ask Slashdot: Companies That Force Employees To Join Social Networks? 364
Kenyan Chief Foils Robbery Via Twitter 50
Canadians #TellVicEverything In Response To Bill C-30 84
EU Court Rules Social Networks Cannot Be Forced To Police Downloads 81
Europe's 'Right To Be Forgotten' Threatens Online Free Speech 410
Twitter Gets Satellite Access 67
Rethinking the Social Media-Centric Classroom 81
Journalist Arrested For Tweet Deported to Saudi Arabia 604
Looking For Love; Finding Privacy Violations 112
Journalist Arrested By Interpol For Tweet 915
Famous For Fifteen People: Is Everyone a 'Facebook Celebrity'? 95
Hacked Emails Reveal Russian Astroturfing Program 153
Superpoke Players Sue Google 160
Former Google Exec: Traditional Search Market Shrinking 184
Moglen: Facebook Is a Man-In-The-Middle Attack 376
Study Finds Social Media Harder To Resist Than Cigarettes, Alcohol 134
Facebook On Collision Course With New EU Privacy Laws 195
Leaked Zynga Memo Justifies Copycat Strategy 384
Google Begins Country-Specific Blog Censorship 250
Ian Bogost Replies: Deep Thoughts On Gaming 37
Thai Gov't Welcomes Twitter's Censorship Plans 113
How Will You React To Twitter's Regional Censorship Plan? 181
Facebook Expected To Go Public Next Week 192
Facebook, Washington State Sue Firm Over Clickjacking 71
Study Finds Growing Up WIth Gadgets Has a Downside: Social Skill Impairment 203
Google+ Officially Open To Teens 93
FBI Building App To Scrape Social Media 133
Twitter Can Now Block Tweets In Specific Countries 151
Federal Judges Wary of Facebook, Twitter Impact On Juries 154
The Google+ Name Game Continues 171
Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace To Google: Don't Be Evil 208
Indonesian Man Faces Five Years For Atheist Facebook Post 907
Facebook To Share Private Data With Politico 157
Sweden Experiments With Public Twitter Takeover 64
DHS Monitors Social Media For 'Political Dissent' 385
India OKs Censoring Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo 146
Twitter Comes Out Swinging Against Google's Personalized Search 186
Google Merges Google+ Into Search 279
Eben Moglen: Social Networking "Creating Systems of Comprehensive Surveillance" 236
Kodak Failing, But Camera Phones Not To Blame 309
Australian Deported From Bahrain Over Facebook Posts 188
UK Executive 'Forced Out of Job' For Posting CV Online 219
Facebook a Factor in a Third of UK Divorces 189