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Josh Chiles is shy. In a gathering of unfamiliar people, he often waits for someone, anyone, to ask him a question or make small talk. (more)

Six middle school girls were arrested Wednesday afternoon after the group allegedly participated in a Facebook event called “Attack a Teacher Day.” (more)

MySpace could use a few more friends of its own. The once-popular social networking site is not only likely to have a new owner by mid-year – or sooner, if News Corp. can find a buyer – but it’s also about to lose more than half of its current 1,100 employees before the end of the month. (more)

An Indiana woman last night allegedly stabbed her boyfriend with a kitchen knife after he would not allow her to view his Facebook page, according to cops. (more)

Welcome to the 5th annual RootsCamp “unconference,” where liberal advocates, government workers, and campaign staffers are meeting to discuss the future of progressive politics (whatever that is) in the face of a resounding midterm elections defeat. (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)

In what labor officials and lawyers view as a ground-breaking case involving workers and social media, the National Labor Relations Board has accused a company of illegally firing an employee after she criticized her supervisor on her Facebook page. (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)

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)

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)

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)

Each and every day, it becomes less likely that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will sue producers of “The Social Network.” If he wanted to file a splashy lawsuit, he probably would have already, and, as THR has already reported, he decided early on not to take an especially adversarial position on the movie. (more)

Based on Ben Mezrich’s bestselling book The Accidental Billioniares, The Social Network tells the story of how Facebook came to be and, most importantly, confirms the swirling rumors that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg really, really sucks. (more)

The Internet world is abuzz about a video clip showing a young woman throwing several puppies into a river. She appears to be Bosnian, with that country now launching an investigation into finding out who she is and bringing her to justice for animal cruelty. Going along with that, PETA is offering a $2,000 reward for information about the girl. (more)

Facebook is in what’s called a recruiting sweet spot right now. Out of control growth in users and revenue and a nearly certain IPO run in the near future. That’s when employee growth expands at the greatest rate for a company as it grows from hundreds to thousands and then tens of thousands of employees. And with low priced private stock as currency, companies in that position can generally get anyone they want. (more)

Facebook is coming to a Target store near you. (more)

As more companies turn to “crowdsourcing” for business feedback, the customer may not always be right but they’re definitely becoming more influential. (more)

Intrigued by Foursquare, or Facebook’s new Places feature, but not sure anybody would be interested in where you go every day? (more)

Maybe you’re one of the people who are completely comfortable with Facebook Places, Facebook’s new location-broadcasting feature. Maybe you can’t wait to start tagging all your friends wherever you hang out. Stop! Think! Don’t be a creep! (more)