Facebook Makes Progress in Attempt to Trademark ‘Face’

Social-networking giant Facebook made a bit of progress in its five-year effort to trademark the world “face,” at least when used in things like online chat rooms and social-networking efforts. The company received what’s calle…

Social Media Make You More Sociable, Study Says

Social media websites such as Facebook make people more sociable, researchers say.

The findings contradict a widespread belief that online socializing is replacing in person contact as people shun the world beyond their computer screen.

“Our findin…

MySpace Launches ‘Mashup’ Feature With Facebook

In the “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” department, MySpace launched a feature that lets users import interests from their Facebook profiles to give MySpace pages a broader stream of entertainment content.
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Will Group Posts and Chats Give Facebook More Cliques?

Facebook on Wednesday said it has revamped its so-called ‘Groups’ feature to make it easier for members to send messages to subgroups of friends, instead of messaging either one person at a time or everyone on their friend list…