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Facebook has added a facial recognition component that identifies your face in photographs and suggests who to tag in the image. Yes, Facebook knows who you are, even to the extend of knowing what you look like. (more)

“At this festive season of the year, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute…Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts.” (more)

Young adults, African-Americans, Latinos, and urbanites are more active tweeters than the average Twitter user, according to a study released Thursday. (more)

In one of the photos that keeps getting Emma Kwasnica’s Facebook account suspended, the Montreal-based mother and breast-feeding activist is tandem nursing, with a newborn at one breast and a two-year-old at the other. Classical art and public health be damned, Facebook has censored countless breast-feeding photos for violating the company’s terms of use, a policy that has inspired more than 250,000 people to join a Facebook group called ”Hey Facebook, Breastfeeding Is Not Obscene!” Kwasnica has protested her four account suspensions by e-mailing administrators and keeps doggedly reposting photographs and organizing virtual “nurse-ins” via her Facebook group, Informed Choice: Birth and Beyond. But last month it occurred to her that the global breast-feeding community could use social media to organize real-world, offline “lactivism,” in the form of milk sharing. (more)

Remember when the only way to meet your significant other was through a blind date or an awkward introduction at your friend’s favorite dive bar? Well, times have changed in the social media driven world that we live in, especially with the presence of online dating sites like Match.com and eHarmony.com. (more)

Facebook is the most dangerous assault weapon in the world. Its virtual property allows people to load and fire their abusive messages at its innocent members. (more)

It looks like Twitter has just hired its first government liaison. New Twitter employee Katie Jacobs Stanton just Tweeted that Adam Sharp will be joining the company to help the “government better communicate with constituents.” Sharp confirmed his employment as well. (more)

It might not be getting a lot of late-night attention by the major TV or online news organizations, but the mayhem surrounding the San Francisco Giants’ World Series victory is burning up Twitter, Facebook, Twitpic and Flickr. It even has a mayor on Foursquare. (more)

MySpace is now My_____. (more)

On Thursday, Facebook launched a feature called “Friendship Pages,” which lets users load up the interactions between themselves and individual friends, or between any two friends, on the social network. You’ll see their posts on one another’s walls, events to which both RSVP’d, photos in which both are tagged, and other interactions that you would otherwise be able to access on either friend’s profile (i.e. nothing that wouldn’t otherwise be public). (more)

I spent last week in China as part of a board meeting with some of our joint venture business partners based in China. It was my first time in China, and some of my preconceived notions were shattered, as is the case for many people who visit there for the first time. But other perceptions were confirmed. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO — Online advertising offers marketers the chance to aim ads at very specific groups of people — say, golf players in Illinois who make more than $150,000 a year and vacation in Hawaii. (more)

Missing people, dog bites, suspicious snakes, domestic disputes, confused callers, car thefts… the list goes on and on. (more)

The newest iteration of Skype’s free communications software, unveiled Thursday, includes many enhancements and additions, including the integration of Facebook News Feed and Phonebook, allowing users to interact with Facebook friends directly from Skype. (more)

Facebook has introduced “one-time,” disposable passwords that can be used if you’re signing into the social networking site from computers in public places such as airports, hotels or libraries, where a cyber thief can go back and collect such information entered on a computer. (more)

If ever there was a time to use the #OHNOTHEYDIDNT hashtag on twitter, this is it.  Victoria’s Secret has introduced a line of Halloween costumes, at last, called the ‘Sexy Little Fantasies’ collection.  They are everything you’d ever want them to be, and more. (more)

Sometimes friendships are destined to go south. With 500 million people on Facebook, relationships are increasingly conducted online, but what are the main reasons people “unfriend” their Facebook pals? A University of Colorado Denver business student examined that issue recently with a new study about what drove users to throw their friendships in the online trash. (more)

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday the social network will unveil several new features, including an application for users to download their personal information held on the site and a dashboard feature that allows users broader control over all of their applications. (more)

If your mom, sister, or friends seem to be revealing a little too much on Facebook this month, it could be for breast cancer awareness. (more)

“The Social Network” is a fascinating, witty, intelligent film about the creation of facebook.com, the Internet phenomenon that transformed the way humans communicate with each other. Almost spontaneously, this social network spread around the globe in a matter of months. As one character says early in the film, “In Bosnia they don’t have roads, but they do have Facebook.” (more)