Privacy groups are at it again. This time they are going after social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, filing complaints about the network's new social-targeting advertising platform. Essentially, Facebook's Social Ads allows consumers to endorse a brand and then have their names and photos displayed along with an accompanying...

Ever since the release of George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, people have been leery of anything that seems "Orwellian," and the Internet is no exception. The media has done its share of perpetuating these fears with threats of computer viruses, hackers and identity thieves not to mention...

Is your email box inundated with invitations to connect with long lost acquaintances or people you've never met? Do you wonder how you got so popular all of a sudden? Or perhaps, you find all the recent attention quite intimidating. For many, social media introduces an entirely new level of...