News tagged with 'Social Networking'

Many kids are hooked on social networking sites such as MySpace, Twitter and Facebook, but most are unaware of the dangers associated with the Internet and these various Web sites. Find out how to keep your kids safe online.

The Division of Drug Information (DDI), a branch of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is utilizing the power of Twitter to inform consumers, health care providers and the industry about information regarding human drug products and drug product regulation.

The mom convicted last November of bullying a teenage girl on MySpace, driving her to the point of suicide, was acquitted by a Los Angeles judge Thursday, who called the laws used "vague and flawed".

Twitter, a popular micro-blogging service is growing like wildfire. But as popular, fun and helpful as Twitter can be, some observers say the service has become a hotbed of unnecessary hype and misinformation. Case in point - the swine flu outbreak. Some say, unofficial news on Twitter may lead people to make unwise decisions.

Online social networking site, MySpace has purged 90,000 registered sex offenders from its site at the urging of  the attorneys general from Connecticut and North Carolina.  Facebook says it has its own system for monitoring users. Online bullying is a far more prevalent problem, experts say. 

In a new study, researchers found more than half the teenagers who use the popular social networking site MySpace have posted unsafe, revealing personal information on the site.

The digital age of teenage flirting is called “sexting” (instead of “texting”) and it involves sending nude or semi-nude photos from cell phone to cell phone. The troubling combination of teenagers acting impulsively and provocatively is not new, but the accessibility to technology is.