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As Privacy Concerns Grow, More Social Media Users Are “Unfriending”

Lauren Goode in Social on February 24 at 7:00 am PT

More people are unfriending, deleting, and otherwise “pruning” their social network profiles.

Tobii’s Eye-Tracking Tech Knows What You’re Eyeing on Dating Sites

Lauren Goode in Commerce on February 6 at 8:00 am PT

Men like pictures; women like text. You don’t say.

There's a One in 200 Chance You're Tweeting From Inside Justin Bieber

Peter Kafka in Media on January 19, 2011 at 8:28 am PT

Or at least somewhere very close to the teen idol: Some are “in Justin Biebers heart” or “Bieberacademy” or “Bieberville, California.” Big picture: Sometimes people aren’t truthful when they fill out their Twitter profiles!

Holy Start-Up Pileup! Social Networking Gets Professional.

Liz Gannes in Social on January 4, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

The same variety of apple has apparently been falling from trees all over Silicon Valley, hitting Web entrepreneurs on the head and inspiring them to create better ways to connect personal and professional social networks.

Trying Out a Revamped Myspace

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on December 21, 2010 at 3:02 pm PT

Katie reviews the revamped Myspace, with its focus on topics in popular culture, including television, music, movies, celebrities and comedy.

What Privacy Problem? Web Ad Targeter Media6Degrees Raises $17 Million

Peter Kafka in Media on December 12, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

More money for a Web ad start-up that promises marketers it can sniff out prospective buyers by tracking their “social signature.”

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Facebook Says User Data Sold to Broker

Geoffrey A. Fowler and Emily Steel, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 1, 2010 at 8:15 am PT

Facebook Inc. said that a data broker has been paying application developers for identifying user information, and that it had placed some developers on a six-month suspension from its site because of the practice. The announcement, which Facebook made on its developers’ blog Friday, follows an investigation by Facebook into a privacy breach that The Wall Street Journal reported in October.

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About.me: A Social Networking Profile to Rule Them All?

Kristi Oloffson, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 13, 2010 at 10:36 am PT

Do we now have so many profiles online that we need another site to keep track of them all? The founders of a new platform called About.me are betting on it. About.me ties together users’ other social-networking sites and includes analytics that let users track things like how many people viewed their About.me page and which social-networking profiles they viewed from there.