Read more Facebook stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2254/facebook.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:49:25 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74644/online-gamers-a-cash-crop-for-farmville.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe latest video game craze sweeping America is a surprisingly cute Facebook application that doesn’t include even a single laser gun. FarmVille has attracted 60 million players, 22 million of whom still check in on their farms every day, harvesting crops, tending livestock, and helping their neighbors scare off foxes....http://www.newser.com/story/74644/online-gamers-a-cash-crop-for-farmville.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 16:05:30 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74591/depressed-woman-parties-on-facebook-sick-leave-yanked.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAfter a year and a half on sick leave for depression, a Canadian woman lost her benefits—because of her Facebook page. Nathalie Blanchard says the insurance company that cut off her payments cited Facebook photos that show her partying at a Chippendales show, enjoying her birthday, and frolicking on...http://www.newser.com/story/74591/depressed-woman-parties-on-facebook-sick-leave-yanked.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 5:33:18 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74601/boy-beaten-on-facebook-kick-a-ginger-day.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPolice suspect a boy was attacked at his southern California middle school because a Facebook site urged assaults on redheads. The boy, 12, was beaten twice on a day declared "Kick a Ginger Day" on the Facebook site, inspired by an episode of South Park . Police are continuing to investigate....http://www.newser.com/story/74601/boy-beaten-on-facebook-kick-a-ginger-day.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 2:07:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74546/twitter-crack-and-other-web-equivalents.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWe all have our favorite Internet time-wasters; now, Patrick Moberg gives us their equivalents in real-world vices: Twitter is crack cocaine: “Fucking ANYONE is your friend. Yuppies do it on their iPhone. Cheap. Short. Fruitless.” Tumblr is a bottle of wine: “A quiet night in with a couple friends …...http://www.newser.com/story/74546/twitter-crack-and-other-web-equivalents.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 22 Nov 2009 13:28:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74435/cops-use-facebook-to-bust-underage-drinkers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWisconsin college student Adam Bauer should represent a cautionary tale for Facebook users under 21, or otherwise on the wrong side of the law: be careful what you post, and whom you friend. Shortly after accepting a request from an unfamiliar, “good-looking girl,” Bauer was invited to the local police...http://www.newser.com/story/74435/cops-use-facebook-to-bust-underage-drinkers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Nov 2009 18:19:52 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74347/time-to-crack-down-on-jihad-20.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagKhalid Sheikh Mohammed has knocked Nidal Hasan out of the headlines but the Fort Hood suspect is the kind of threat America needs to focus on, warns Daniel Henninger. Home-grown terrorists, indoctrinated over the Internet, are now more of a danger than "old-school" jihadis abroad, and the ideology that radicalizes...http://www.newser.com/story/74347/time-to-crack-down-on-jihad-20.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Nov 2009 8:46:45 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74264/facebooks-most-annoying-parents.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe latest annoying trend on Facebook isn’t people who write in all caps or insist on using “ur” instead of “your”—it’s parents. Babble runs down the five most annoying types: Obsessives: If you absolutely have to post a sonogram picture, fine. But must you post 74? The same goes...http://www.newser.com/story/74264/facebooks-most-annoying-parents.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Nov 2009 12:12:33 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74201/unfriend-is-scam-not-word-of-year.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAfter "unfriend" won Oxford University Press' Word of the Year, Adrian Chen started typing away at a piece on Internet relationships for Gawker —"Then I realized that the Word of the Year is a huge scam." Here's the evidence: The past four winners have been hypermiling (maximizing gas mileage by...http://www.newser.com/story/74201/unfriend-is-scam-not-word-of-year.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 9:08:26 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74137/in-venezuela-criminals-police-turn-to-facebook.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagUpdate your status at your own peril in Venezuela: A pair of university students burglarized their Facebook friends' homes after collecting info on what they owned and when they wouldn't be home. Theft and other crime facilitated by social networking sites are on the rise in Venezuela, and in a...http://www.newser.com/story/74137/in-venezuela-criminals-police-turn-to-facebook.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Nov 2009 17:51:14 CST