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        <title><![CDATA[ Online Friending  Grows Stranger]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[How many online friends is too many? Facebook insists users can only have 5,000&mdash;and that's not enough for some, discovers Stephen Levy in Newsweek. &quot;Who am I to say no to friendship?&quot; asks one user who spends 12 hours a day on Facebook and has a waiting list of 500 would-be pals. Levy even discovers a mere potato on MySpace with 2,695 friends.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Sun, 18 May 2008 06:00:00 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ MySpace Bully's Case Sets Risky Course: Experts]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[A criminal indictment over MySpace bullying that led to a Missouri teen's suicide sets an unusual and perhaps dangerous legal precedent, experts say. Because her activities violated the site&rsquo;s terms of use, Lori Drew faces charges of computer fraud and abuse related to the death of Megan Meier, Wired reports&mdash;and the charges involve a contract that few users even bother to read.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Fri, 16 May 2008 14:43:59 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Teen Shares Rape Tale on YouTube]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[After her case was dropped by the courts, a 16-year-old girl turned to YouTube to share her story of rape, CNN reports. &ldquo;It's the only way I know that someone out there in the world is going to listen to me,&quot; says the tearful girl in her video. She joins a growing number of young people seeking help with abuse via the Internet&mdash;a method that can be dangerous, experts warn.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Fri, 16 May 2008 08:05:03 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Woman Indicted in MySpace Suicide Case]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[A Missouri woman has been indicted in the case of a teenage girl who killed herself after receiving cruel messages on MySpace, the AP reports. The woman, Lori Drew, is charged with pretending to be a teenage boy on the site and having a helper taunt the 13-year-old victim. Drew faces up to 20 years in prison on counts of conspiracy and accessing protected computers.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Thu, 15 May 2008 15:39:03 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  MySpace Wins   Record $234M   From Spammers ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[MySpace has been awarded $234 million from spammers in what's believed to be the largest such judgment ever, AP reports. A federal court ordered two notorious spammers to pay damages for sending hundreds of thousands of messages to MySpace members. The social networking site hailed the award as a &ldquo;landmark.&rdquo;]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Wed, 14 May 2008 02:55:51 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Growing Pains Plenty Evident at Facebook]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Facebook is seeing a lot of challenges lately, with ads selling at rock-bottom prices, revenue not nearly rivaling MySpace, and third-party developers defecting to OpenSocial networks (MySpace, again). But unlike other companies&rsquo; young founders, Mark Zuckerberg isn&rsquo;t about to step aside. And thanks to his tight control of Facebook's board, he&rsquo;s not about to be pushed out, either, Fortune reports.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Tue, 13 May 2008 16:13:58 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Say Hello to Generation Duh]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Today's youth are dangerously dumb, Mark Bauerlein writes in his new book, The Dumbest Generation. Here's why:

    Check out Jay Leno's &quot;Jaywalking,&quot; where &quot;the ignorance is hard to believe.&quot;
    They boast &quot;a new attitude,&quot; taking pride in their illiteracy.
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        <pubDate> Tue, 13 May 2008 12:24:10 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Google Making Whole Web Social Network]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Google is unveiling a new service that could effectively turn the whole Web into a social network, the Washington Post reports. Friend Connect allows visitors to participating sites to meet and interact with others who visit the same site. &quot;Wherever people go on the Web, they want to have their friends with them, and this makes it possible,&quot; says one Google worker.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Mon, 12 May 2008 15:18:09 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Zuckerberg Pal Quits as Facebook CTO]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[In a surprise move, Facebook&rsquo;s Chief Technology Officer is leaving the company, CNET reports. Adam D&rsquo;Angelo, 23, felt the job no longer suited his skills and interests, sources told BoomTown. But there were also rumors of increasing tension between D&rsquo;Angelo and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who have been friends since high school. Meanwhile, the company has borrowed $100 million to expand its server base.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Mon, 12 May 2008 06:46:56 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Microsoft Not About to Buy Facebook (or Yahoo)]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Rumors that Microsoft is about to buy Facebook are just rumors: Despite the press corps&rsquo; desire to keep the Microsoft acquisition jones alive, it's not going to happen anytime soon, writes David Kirkpatrick in Forbes. And talk of the Yahoo deal suddenly resurfacing? Forget about it. Still, Microsoft may be interested in Facebook far down the road&mdash;the possibility of gaining the bank of personal info is endlessly tempting.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Fri, 09 May 2008 16:24:04 CDT  </pubDate>
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