Woman loses job after abusing boss on Facebook!

September 2nd, 2009 Facebook scam leads woman to wire funds abroadST. LOUIS — Police say a Missouri woman was tricked into wiring about $4,000 to an account in England after receiving messages from a friend on Facebook asking for help.

May 9th, 2009 Its a proven fact that when you have a good & understanding boss, you can perform better. Thus, it can be a motivating factor in an organization.

May 15th, 2009 LONDON - While most ladies her age prefer to sit quietly, 103-year-old English lady Ivy Bean loves to Twitter, something that has made her the oldest user of the social networking site. Bean, a great grandmother, decided to join Twitter after she got bored of using Facebook, where she had made 4,800 friends.

June 29th, 2009 LONDON - Mafia mobsters are using social networking site Facebook to attract wannabe gangsters. Sicilian gangsters are targeting members who have joined online groups dedicated to Cosa-Nostra's godfathers.

September 2nd, 2009 Facebook scam leads Mo. woman to wire $4K abroadST.

August 11th, 2009 MC Hammer's cousin appears in court on rape chargePLEASANTON, Calif. —The cousin of rapper MC Hammer has been charged in California with raping a 40-year-old woman he met through an online social networking site.

January 10th, 2009 LONDON - Nearly 30 pupils have been suspended from a London high school for posting 'deeply insulting' comments about a teacher on Facebook, the social networking website. The girls at the Grey Coat Hospital School signed up to a Facebook group named The Hate Society, which contained messages attacking the teacher.

September 6th, 2009 LONDON - Employees at PC World and Currys used Facebook to abuse their customers. Many past and present staff members hurled abuses to their customers on discussion boards.

June 30th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A 28-year-old woman lost RM19,000 after her cyber 'lover' tricked her into parting with her savings to help him start a business. She had thought that the cyber love affair was genuine after the stranger, purportedly from Ireland, popped the question.

May 13th, 2009 Armenian teenager killed after online clash YEREVAN, Armenia — Police say an Armenian teenager was killed after a dispute on a popular social networking Web site. Interior Ministry spokesman Sayat Shirinian said Wednesday that 17-year-old Tigran Tadevosian died in a hospital shortly after being assaulted by four teenagers on April 26.

April 30th, 2009 Let workers text and Twitter, business owners say NEW YORK — When Marty Kotis looked at his company's monthly wireless bill, he found a stunning charge — for 2,500 text messages on a single staffer's phone. There was more: Another staffer had 800, and a third, 700.

February 15th, 2009 WELLINGTON - Armed officers rescued a German woman who flew to Dunedin to meet a man she befriended online from what the New Zealand police described as a 'dangerous situation', a newspaper reported Monday. 'The man was not who he had portrayed himself to be in his Internet communications,' Detective Steve McGregor said in a statement to the Otago Daily Times.

August 25th, 2009 LONDON - A teenaged girl has been reunited with her parents and 15 brothers and sisters, thanks to popular social networking website Facebook. Sophie Featherstone was devastated after the demise of her beloved grandmother Pat, who raised her.

May 19th, 2009 LONDON - Israel has asked its public to be careful while using Facebook because, it says, Arabs are trying to recruit spies on the popular social networking site. The Shin Bet security agency warned Israelis against replying to unknown messages, or divulging sensitive information the internet.

August 15th, 2007 I glanced over the Facebook source code for both index and search pages. As an enterprise developer of some experience, source code is always interesting to me as it provides an insight into the health of a company.