Facebook, Myspace Generation Dilute Value Of Friendship, Shun Reality

Facebook and other social networking websites have been accused by the head of the Catholic Church in England, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, of increasing the number of teenagers committing suicide.According to the senior religious...

The Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Baroness Greenfield, has expressed great concern about the impact social networking websites is having on the developing brains of young people in the UK. Susan Greenfield,...

The number of UK users regularly logging on social networking sites through their mobile phones is rapidly approaching 1 million according to a report published by Nielsen Mobile research.During the first quarter of 2008, 810,000...

Should and Could Facebook sell out to Software Behemoth Microsoft? That's a tantalising prospect that was proposed by respected news outlet Wall Street Journal, which normally has very well placed sources. According to WSJ,...

New government proposals could see sex offenders details, all 30,000 of them, being passed on to social networking websites like Facebook, Bebo or Myspace to prevent them from contacting young people. Websites could be asked to...

The AOL Time Warner group has purchased Social Networking Website Bebo for $850 million earlier today in a surprise move that leaves only a handful of players left in the field.Bebo has been rumoured to be looking for a quick...

Fortify Software says that buffer overflows are at the heart of a series of hacks against the Facebook and MySpace social networking sites. "A buffer overflow enabled hackers to exploit the Aurigma ActiveX image uploading...

“Social networking swept through the internet-using population like flu during 2006-2007, but like any epidemic, it shows signs of falling back once all the most vulnerable targets have been infected,” says Tim...

Facebook and Myspace have both suffered a slight dip in UK users with a drop of 5 percent between December and January, according to data released by Nielsen Online. Before everybody starts to panic, just bear in mind that it is...

The majority of employers permit employees to have reasonable personal use of the Internet during working hours. Employers have sought to minimise the risks that this personal use might present by introducing Acceptable Use...

The recent popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo are costing UK corporations close to £6.5 billion annually in lost productivity, according to a poll conducted by Information security...

A report released by watchdog Ofcom showed that UK has the greatest proportion of internet-enabled users in Europe who regularly visit social networking sites like Facebook or Myspace.Nearly forty percent of UK adults with...

The Official guidance issued today by the Information Commissioner whose office oversees how data is created, maintained and used across UK, is the latest sign of the growing uneasiness associated with social networking sites...

You can't ignore Wikipedia. According to Alexa, the web's open encyclopaedia is the 8th most popular website on the internet, ranking just below to Facebook although it has the lowest full time employee headcount of the top...

Global Secure Systems, a security consultancy firm claims to have saved thousands of pounds a year by practising what they preach by blocking access to Facebook and other social networking sites on its company network with...