If you're more than 35 years old, things are more different with young people than you probably realize. ...more

November 21, 2007

AVON PARK — Social-networking Web sites are one of the most popular ways for college students to keep in touch with one another, but it can't be done on South Florida Community College campus. The college has blocked sites like MySpace and Facebook from being accessed on the campus. Even YouTube, a popular Web site for watching and sharing video, is not accessible. "It's really frustrating when we are here waiting for class and we can't get on those sites," said SFCC freshman Justin Platt. "We use them for communicating with our friends, and I don't understand what's wrong with that." ...more

November 20, 2007

Rapidly rising Internet star Facebook has sold a 1.6 percent stake to Microsoft for $240 million, spurning a competing offer from online search leader Google. ...more

October 25, 2007

Older people are sticky. That is the latest view from Silicon Valley. Technology investors and entrepreneurs, long obsessed with connecting to teenagers and twentysomethings, are starting a host of new social networking sites aimed at baby boomers and older people. ...more

October 5, 2007

The social networking Web site Facebook has been warned that it could face a consumer fraud charge for failing to live up to claims that youngsters there are safer from sexual predators than at most sites and that it promptly responds to concerns, a spokesman for New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. ...more

October 1, 2007

Academy of the Holy Names junior hitter Erica Almerico is one of the top attackers for the Jaguars. She is also part of a marketing plan to spread awareness of alcohol abuse among teens. ...more

September 17, 2007

As spy gear goes, a social-networking Web site doesn't quite have the same cachet as some of James Bond's high-tech gadgets. ...more

September 9, 2007