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This is the fake Adam Hamilton Facebook page. Search for the Rev. Adam Hamilton on Facebook and you'll likely get two seemingly identical pages to choose from.

Josh Knoller, a young professional in New York City, spent years refusing his mother's "Friend Request" on Facebook before, eventually, "caving in." Today they have an agreement: she'll try not to make embarrassing comments, and he can delete them if she does.

To say the Facebook Developer Platform changed the web as we know it would be a dramatic understatement.

When one employee spoke up about it on social media, he lost his job. Johnny Cook was a middle school bus driver at Haralson County Middle School.

Bradley Schnickel faces additional felony charges stemming from alleged online communications with girls, including one involving sex with a 16-year-old. Former Minneapolis police officer Bradley Schnickel, accused of using social media to try to lure girls into sexual encounters, faces five new felony charges, including an allegation of having sex ... (more)

The murder of soldier Lee Rigby has provoked a backlash of anger across the UK, including the attacking of mosques, racial abuse and comments made on social media.

An editor at The Herald Bulletin in Anderson no doubt wishes he would have pondered a little before posting a Facebook commentary that called into question the wisdom of the Oklahoma tornado victims -- many of whom were still suffering the effects of the deadly storm.

Russia's leading online social network was briefly banned on Friday, in a move dismissed as a "mistake" but which follows intensifying official pressure on the company as President Vladimir Putin consolidates his power.

The bull market hit a speed bump this week as investors begin to consider what life will be like when the Federal Reserve starts to taper off its long-standing asset purchasing program.

Complaints were made to police about comments made on Facebook, which were allegedly of a racist or anti-religious nature A 22-year-old man has been charged on suspicion of making malicious comments on Facebook following the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby.

Police have charged a 22-year-old Lincoln man in relation to comments posted on the social media website Facebook.

The Dothan Personnel Board expects to take at least two to three weeks to decide what could be a landmark case involving the use of social media by police.

Social media allows access to datasets with an unprecedented range of detail, but presents a host of new challenges for researchers 25 January 2011 was the day Egypt's revolt began.

Robert Reimann watched the second plane hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept.

Users in the U.K. and France will have to wait a bit longer to get their hands on the HTC First.

The crime was as shocking as any that investigators in the Czech Republic city of Brno had ever seen: four members of the same family murdered -- some or all with their throats slit, the home they had opened to their apparent killer set ablaze, according to wire service reports.

Google , maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying map-software provider Waze, setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook , people familiar with the matter said.

Internet communities are more trustworthy than some big corporations, but mobile is proving a hard nut to crack even for the best of them, actor and venture capitalist Ashton Kutcher told CTIA Wireless Thursday.

A "POPULAR and genuinely happy" 16-year-old sprinted in front of a train after Facebook comments were made about his relationship with a girl.

Last Thursday, when I officially announced my candidacy for Mayor of Boston, I called for reviving the Boston Compact to bring back businesses, colleges and universities, unions and non-profit organizations as partners in our efforts to improve the Boston Public Schools.