While email “phishing scams” are nothing new to internet and email users, it appears that Facebook is yet another scam. The newest phishing scam, that attacks Facebook users, will send a fake email from Facebook that could trick a Facebook user into changing their password on their account. If a recipient of this email falls for the scam and changes their password, the new virus will immediately... 

While Facebook is commonly thought of as only a way to interact with friends and is otherwise frivolous, it appears that law enforcement officials may use the social networking site as a new source of surveillance. On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice sent out a PDF that confirmed that they plan to use Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter as a new way to monitor individuals. While it is not clear exactly... 

Anthony Stanci, was charged with 15 years in prison for soliciting sex from minors, possessing child pornography and making a bomb threat. In December, he pleaded no contact, to two Wisconsin felonies, third degree sexual assault and repeated sexual assault of the same child. Stanci, 18 at the time, was posing as teenage female on facebook,”Kayla” and contacting male classmates to send... 

The Facebook pages of 30 incarcerated British inmates were yanked by Facebook after learning the inmates were utilizing Facebook as a middleman for crime conspiracy as well as committing threats against others, mainly victims’ families. Inmates updated their Facebook pages by instigating family members or by illegally smuggling cell phones into the prison system. Last month, The Sunday Times newspaper... 

In honor of what’s been dubbed “Urban Dictionary Week” on Facebook, a new trend has popped up that has users giggling over user-created definitions of their names. Users are updating their Facebook status with quotes from the results returned from searching for their name on Urban Dictionary. Urban Dictionary is a user-supplemented dictionary on the web for more than 4,000,000 slang... 

Actress Drew Barrymore really likes the concept of being single. She wanted to squash rumors that she once listed her Facebook relationship status as Engaged. A lot of people were convinced that this was a fact and people were so ready to speculate exactly who she happens to be engaged to. Drew wanted to put these rumors to bed and said not only is she not engaged, but she has never even in fact been... 

The social networking world continues to progress. It continues to progress so much that different social networking sites are feuding with one another. The social networking site Seppukoo is promising to help Facebook users who no longer want to use the site, a chance to commit virtual suicide. Seppukoo is allowing Facebook users to create memorial sites to their Facebook pages as a way to express... 

A British fugitive who escaped from Hollesey Bay Prison in Suffolk has taken to Facebook as a way to communicate with his friends and family. The 28 year old Craig Lynch has made numerous posts about everything he is doing during his days of freedom. Police have not been able to find the man even with all the clues he provides during his status updates on the social networking site. He has talked about... 

Nathalie Blanchard, 29, employed by IBM in Bromont, has been off work for 1 year and a half after receiving a diagnosis of major depression.  While off work, Blanchard had been collecting sick-leave benefits. This fall Manulife insurance stopped payments. According to Blanchard, Manulife have stopped the payments because her Facebook paged showed her vacationing at the beach and enjoyng the company... 

Stanford “Spamford” Wallace has been ordered to pay Facebook  $711 million US in damages for spreading spam messages on the social networking site. “This is another important victory in our fight against spam. We will continue to pursue other spammers, “said the social network Thursday in a press release. The social networking site filed a complaint against Wallace in February...