Social Blogging

Social networking website Facebook has been blamed for one-third of divorces across the world, according to a law firm.

One police officer was sacked and more than 150 faced disciplinary action over their behaviour on Facebook in a three-year period, figures have shown.

Police have admitted that the family of an Indian student murdered in Salford on Boxing Day found out about his death on Facebook.

Google was the most-visited web destination in the United States in 2011, followed by Facebook and Yahoo!, industry tracker Nielsen said.

A police officer says gunmen killed a police surgeon in southwestern Pakistan who played a key role in investigating the controversial deaths of five foreigners by security forces earlier this year.

Japan’s nuclear crisis has turned Mizuho Nakayama into one of a small but growing number of Internet-savvy activist moms.Worried about her 2-year-old son and distrustful of government and TV reports that seemed to play down radiation risks, she scoured the Web for information and started connecting with other mothers through Twitter and Facebook, … (more)

The US department of homeland security reportedly makes fake Twitter and Facebook profiles in a bid to track down people who use ’sensitive’ words.

New data from comScore shows that it is indeed a “social world” with social networking accounting for one in every five minutes spent online by users around the world, making it the most popular online activity.

Vietnam may block its citizens from using Facebook, but that didn’t stop website founder Mark Zuckerberg from vacationing in the communist country.

A shy 8-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel’s latest religious war.

An 18-year-old Pittsburgh man is jailed on charges he burglarized a local market with three teens - and then posted pictures on his Facebook page showing the suspects mugging with some of the loot.

Lancashire’s chief fire officer today described as “absolutely appalling” the moment he realised hoaxers were claiming two firefighters had died in the Leyland inferno.

With buzzed-about social media companies having failed so far to make a lasting impression on Wall Street, the bar for going public is likely to remain high.

What happens to all that you shared with the world online? Who is going to deal with your websites and Facebook page? Will anyone give a tweet? One useful thing to think about, says Nancy Cleman, a lawyer with Sternthal Katznelson Montigny LLP in Montreal, is making provisions for your digital life when you are taking stock of all your other life … (more)

Most of The Rolling Stones have taken to their social networking sites to send out some holiday wishes to fans.