Social Network Could Revolutionize Disease Treatment
Paul Wicks of PatientsLikeMe launches a new data-sharing platform at TED Monday. Photo: TED/Flickr LONG BEACH, California — No one is excited to give up privacy to Facebook or Foursquare. But more and more people are sharing sensitive medical records

Block Websites, Filter Adult Content and Restrict Social Media Using OpenDNS
For example, if you want to block all social networking sites, but want to allow access to hootsuite.com (which is usually included in the social networking category), you can add hootsuite.com to the “Never block” list. The normal Web Content

Predators use social networking to lure local kids into sex work
NEW ORLEANS -- It is happening across the country and right here in the New Orleans metro area. Pimps are targeting popular social networking sites to recruit kids as sex workers and local law enforcement agencies are fighting back. "It is a cat

The Friendster Autopsy: How a Social Network Dies
Friendster in 2004, as captured by the Internet Archive. Screenshot: Wired What kills a social network? A group of internet archeologists have picked over the digital bones of Friendster — the pioneering social networking site that drowned in Facebook

Social Network And Media Site Glowtrend.com Expands Online Presence
This new media site has it all from friends to forums. Glowtrend.com is delivering on its niche of media sharing including videos, music and photos. This social network is way ahead of its time and is setting the stage for the new coming age of social

Pimps hit social networks to recruit underage sex workers
It started with a Facebook "friend" request. "I was just, 'oh, he's cute, I'll accept him,'" a 22-year-old called "Nina" recalls. She was 18 at the time, and didn't imagine that clicking "accept" would start her on a path to four years of

Spotify branches out into its own social network
With its feed, user profiles, and people tab, Spotify is already well on its way to becoming its own social network. And now, the music-streaming service is about to beef up its social aspect even more. Spotify is in the middle of rolling out a

Instagram reaches social media milestone: 100 million active users
Instagram, the popular photo-sharing social network purchased by Facebook last year, has reached a milestone important for any social network: 100 million monthly active users. The mobile app, which has recently begun expanding its Web presence

An Autopsy of a Dead Social Network
Following the collapse of the social network Friendster, computer scientists have carried out a digital autopsy to find out what went wrong Friendster is a social network that was founded in 2002, a year before Myspace and two years before Facebook.

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