If you’ve ever been de-friended on Facebook, you can certainly identify with the depths of despair Chris Nelson experiences…

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The six degrees of separation game on Facebook is amusing. I wanted to see how many degrees I was from Lindsay Lohan, who I couldn’t find, but I discovered I am four degrees away from her lady, Sam Ronson. More exciting, only two degrees away from Russell Simmons. I have to yet to seek out [...]

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If you’re not into updating your Entourage or throwing vampires, the only real thing to do on Facebook is to check out your friend’s profiles. You know… read their updates, comment on their photos, peruse their walls.
So about a year ago, I was scanning a family member’s MySpace page and came across [...]

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“It’s Barack Obama’s party now.”
So led the AP yesterday.  It’s been a challenge to sort through this mess.  Everyone tip-toeing around the slim prospect of Hillary somehow, someway stealing what Obama wrapped up mathematically at least a month ago.  Even though he has been reluctant to say anything definitive, his actions have spoken louder than [...]

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Here at P+P, we are constantly re-thinking the best ways to organize content and deliver a reading experience outside the punditry and beltway-blogger echo chamber. As such, we’d like to offer up a new permanent Monday fixture that will throw out some hand-picked stories from the weekend for your reading pleasure, along with some [...]

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Mourning the victims of a school shooting on Facebook. It’s part of your very own evolving digital culture.

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This video has a made-for-educational-purposes feel that might spur you to daydreaming about that cute person with the shiny hair in seventh grade who sat behind your best friend and about the smell of wafting chalk-dust and the sound of patten-leather shoes clapping on a long tiled hallway approaching closer, closer, closer to where you [...]

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Facebook continues its campaign for global media domination, announcing a partnership with ABC News designed to bring the campaign trail to the top of the news feed.
The goal, as the New York Times reported Monday, is to draw Facebook users (read: 18-29 year olds) into political coverage, creating a web of information and opinion for [...]

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In what has become the latest Facebook fiasco, a group of college students recently joined forces to parody the Jena Six assault and then had the dramatization published on the social networking site. A freshman at the University of Louisiana at Monroe posted a photo album and a video showing her friends covered in mud, [...]

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A Facebook “education-workshop” is scheduled to be held in D.C. next week for politicians interested to learn about, what else, social networking. The Facebook Political Summit page describes the event for crack campaign staffers as a “lively seminar about how Facebook and social media can be an integral part of your campaign and constituent strategy. [...]

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There’s an adage that advises against mixing friends and money… but it must have been formulated before a presidential candidate could gain hundreds of thousands of virtual friends on the web, each with their own credit card.
The New York Times reported this week that Democratic presidential candidates have had more success than their Republican counterparts [...]

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