Youths Try Different Lent Focus: Facebook: Students Eschew Usual Sacrifices, Address Web Habits
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By Abigail Tucker, The Baltimore Sun  Mar. 4--Late on the night before Ash Wednesday, Maura Toomb clicked into her profile on Facebook, her favorite social networking Web site. She took a deep breath and typed:  "I'm giving up Facebook for Lent.
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These aren't your teenager's social networking sites.
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To be, or not to be: Now Facebook users can decide.
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Young people don't think of technology as separate from their daily lives.
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By ANICK JESDANUN NEW YORK - Facebook, an online community now restricted mostly to high school and college students, will soon throw its doors wide open and welcome millions of Internet users currently left standing at the gates.
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The influx of business users into Facebook's formerly college-centric community has led to a culture clash for some longtime users, leading them to reconsider how much personal information they share on the site.
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By Janet Kornblum  Facebook, the online networking site once the exclusive terrain of college students, will soon be opening up to the world.
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College students are up in arms, and it has nothing to do with the war in Iraq or rising tuition fees. The objects of their ire are the new features added to Facebook.com's social networking Web site that distribute any updated personal information from members' pages to their friends -- without the member's consent.
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Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook have been boons for teenagers looking for new friends and people trying to find dates. Now the technology, which lets liked-minded people find each other online, is trickling into investing.
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Stanford students can try  to borrow a Web page from a Harvard dropout this year thanks to  a course in building software for Facebook, the wildly popular  social network.
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By Julia Stuart  They come home from school, ignore their toyboxes and log on. Mouses in hand, they enter a virtual world and play with their dolls online. The real thing, it appears, is no longer cool.   There is a plethora of internet sites now catering for young girls.
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By Kelly Proctor, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Jun. 23--Social networking sites such as MySpace aren't restricted to teenagers or to hard-wired computer users anymore.
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Social network sites are being urged to do more to help young users report online abuse.
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Youngsters are meeting up with people they met on the internet, without their parents knowing, research suggests.
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WASHINGTON - Many more white children use the Internet than do Hispanic and black students, a reminder that going online is hardly a way of life for everyone.
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The Web used to be a place where we went to seek information. But with the rise of social networks, we're barraged with a constant stream of data, requested or not
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Researchers are using Facebook habits to study how tastes and values affect the formation of social relationships.