The XX Factor : social networking

How Facebook Saved Privacy

Kerry Howley — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:27:00 GMT

" Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy ?" Scientific American asked in September. The answer provided was pretty much "yes." Over at the New York Times , my friend Tim Lee explains why this question—and the division it implies, of a privacy-rich...(read more)

Richard Blumenthal Discovers Erotic Services

Kerry Howley — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:46:00 GMT

The last time I had the misfortune of noticing Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, he was leading an attack on virtual beer pong . Now, in the wake of the ( surprisingly well-kempt! ) "Craigslist Killer," he has apparently turned his prosecutorial...(read more)

All Atwitter

Emily Yoffe — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:46:00 GMT

An Oxford neuroscientist is suggesting that social networking and the hours kids spend doing it is rewiring their brains so that we are at risk of raising a generation of solipsists. Dr. Susan Greenfield fears this exposure is permanently "infantalizing"...(read more)

No Adults Allowed

Torie Bosch — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:37:00 GMT

News from the trial of Lori Drew, the mother whose MySpace hoax allegedly led her 13-year-old daughter's friend Megan Meier to commit suicide: Drew was convicted of three misdemeanor charges of accessing computers without authorization but not the more...(read more)