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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 [...]

Read N-bombing on Facebook »

“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 [...]

Read The weekend roundup: the end is near »

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 [...]

Read The weekend roundup »

niu4.jpgMourning the victims of a school shooting on Facebook. It’s part of your very own evolving digital culture.

Read Mourning on the social-networks »

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 [...]

Read Fear and loathing on Facebook »

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, [...]

Read Pictures last a lifetime »

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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Because spies like social networking sites, too.

Read Secret Agent Cyberspace »

Miitt Romney, the Republicans’ top family values and big love candidate, is fearful of the internet because… he doesn’t know anything about it. Over the last few weeks, he has been turning his campaign into an anti-internet-porn crusade, taking a strong stand against sexual predators on “these networking sites.” He wants to lock up the [...]

Read Romney’s clean screens »

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 [...]

Read The MySpace race »

Gone are the days of cruising the streets with friends and rendezvousing at midnight at the Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot to see what’s up.
55% of online teens use social networks and have created online profiles. Girls moreso than boys (70% of girls aged 15-17), according to the results of a Pew Internet & American Life [...]

Read social net sites: today’s teenage parking lot? »


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