Twitter has become the ultimate turncoat lately, functioning as a soldier for the police and drunken drivers alike.

We reported last week that inebriated drivers in Texas are to be outed on Twitter, and now cops report that the culprits themselves…

GPS-aware mobile devices have become commonplace, which means connecting the dots between what you’re doing and where you’re doing it is easier than ever.

In 2009, location-sharing applications finally emerged in user-friendly formats, altering the way we think about where we…

The New York Times’ Bits blog is reporting that FCC head honcho Julius Genachowsi — the man in the middle of the net neutrality initiatives and the Google-Apple disputes — has fallen victim to the fraudulent activity of scammers on Facebook.

Mr. Genachowski apparently inadvertently passed…

Since I’ve been at Mashable, my track record with year-end predictions has been pretty good. That’s probably because rather than making wild and sexy pontifications about what will happen in the year ahead (but almost certainly will not), I tend…

Given the sheer amount of time that individuals spend on Facebook and Twitter, it’s easy to make jokes about the hypnotic nature of social networking. However, real-life hypnotherapist Chris Hughes plans on bringing together hypnotism and the Internet in a very…

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How we interact with others can either cause joy, pain or leave no impression at all. What impression are you leaving behind you on Twitter and other social networks?
Pain is caused on Twitter when…
- Spam and hacking occurs and we feel our safety and privacy is compromised.
- An opinion [...]

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href="http://mashable.com/category/facebook/">Facebook and href="http://mashable.com/category/myspace/">MySpace app maker and advertising network href="http://rockyou.com" target="_blank">RockYou isn’t having a great December. Earlier this month, href="http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009/12/15/rockyou-hacked-32-million-account-passwords/" target="_blank">32 million passwords were compromised by a hacker going by the alias of “igigi.” That’s more than half of RockYou’s monthly active users.

The password attack, carried out…

To most observers, 2009 marked the year Twitter conquered the world. Yet it wasn’t the only social media company that grew like wildfire. There’s another that grew even more rapidly, adding over 200 million new users and raising $200 million…

Remember Seppukoo, that nifty little service that lets you kill your Facebook identity? Well, Facebook doesn’t appreciate the idea.

In fact, Facebook doesn’t want Seppukoo to exist at all, claiming that it violates the statement of rights and responsibilities. Therefore, Facebook…

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When you look at a list of top 10 websites in the world, or the U.S., which site do you expect to see on top? href="http://google.com" target="_blank">Google. Although Google still dominates the list most of the time, with href="http://www.hitwise.com/us/press-center/press-releases/facebook-top-search-term-in-2009/" target="_blank"> 6.7 percent of all…