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June 29th, 2009 SYDNEY - Parents need not worry if their teens are into social networking sites - they are savvy enough to minimize risks for themselves, according to a recent study. Kerry Mallan, of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and colleagues who interviewed 170 students, found that teens who spend time on social networking sites are savvier than thought.

May 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace might be a great way of meeting new people, but they are turning British people into introverts, a new survey has found. In the study led by market research company Mintel, over 50 pct of the adults revealed that they spend more time chatting online than they do actually speaking to friends and family.

February 3rd, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Social networking website MySpace.com has said that it had ejected more than 90,000 registered sex offenders following an agreement last year with state attorneys general to improve child safety. The figure, which MySpace provided to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, was more than double the number that MySpace had predicted that it would find when it launched the crackdown on online threats to minors.

August 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Popular social networking websites' users could be leaking their personal information to tracking sites, warn researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). They have found that the practices of many popular social networking sites typically make that personal information available to companies that track Web users' browsing habits, and allow them to link anonymous browsing habits to specific people.

June 4th, 2009 Social networking is getting hotter and hotter in US. Ultimately its bulging into a war of social sites, where each site is looking to hook their visitor for maximum hours.

March 30th, 2009 A University of Kansas professor is researching details of online relationships forged on social networking sites and determining their significance, depth and potential. Nancy Baym, associate professor of communication studies, became interested early on in how the Internet shapes interpersonal communication and of late has focused her research on social networking sites in particular.

July 6th, 2009 Palin offers comments over Twitter, FacebookANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin is communicating through social networking sites after her surprise announcement last week that she will resign as Alaska governor. Throughout the holiday weekend, the governor has provided frequent updates to supporters on Twitter while otherwise laying low.

May 12th, 2009 SYDNEY - An inquiry into cyber bullying has revealed that young victims can use friendships on social networking websites to help protect themselves. Gillian Calvert, the NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People, told the inquiry that cyber bullying should not be viewed as a new phenomenon.

March 30th, 2009 LONDON - With more and more people drawing towards social networking sites, it has become very hard to maintain privacy, according to a new study. The researchers analysed links between users of social sites, and identified many people in supposedly anonymous data sets.

July 28th, 2009 UN orders Iranian to give up Facebook Web addressGENEVA — Social networking site Facebook has won control of a Web address using its name and the country suffix .ir for Iran. The U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization says current owner Majid Karimian Ghannad of Yazd, Iran, has to transfer the domain name — facebook.ir — to the U.S.-based site.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Brits take home the trophy for being the biggest fans of the social networking giant Facebook with more than two thirds logging on as members, reveals a new study. According to analysts Nielsen, an astonishing 47 per cent had joined the free-access website, as one in every six minutes was spent online on a social network site.

May 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - BigAdda, the social networking website belonging to the Anil Ambani group, Fropper, a dating site and Indyarocks, an entertainment-based social network, are among the top 25 Indian Internet start-ups ranked for the first time by leading technology magazine Dataquest. The rankings prepared with the help of Indianweb2.com that tracks Indian start-ups in the technology space, is an interesting mix of social networking sites, tool makers, rating sites, and creators of close-knit online communities and mobile applications.

July 17th, 2009 MUMBAI - PlaySpanT, the leader in monetization solutions for online games, virtual worlds, and social networks, today announced a new marketplace storefront for Facebook, and coming soon to MySpace, which enables consumers to purchase online game items, virtual goods, and game currencies from many of today's most popular online games and applications. The news marks the first time that consumers will have the ability to participate in a universal virtual goods commerce marketplace that also enables them to buy, trade, and sell goods within social networks and use the items in their online game environments.

March 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The UK government could soon start monitoring and saving web-profiles of millions of British social networking site users as part of its security upgradation endeavor. "Social networking sites, such as MySpace or Bebo, are not covered by the directive.

August 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Are you constantly on the move and don't have time to log on to your computer to be in touch with your friends? Coming to your rescue now is your mobile phone through which you can access any social networking site, anytime, anywhere. Take college student Ajay Kumar for instance.