Read more MySpace stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/399/myspace.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 14:23:44 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/74026/omg-enuf-with-ur-duckface.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagChances are, if it doesn’t describe the face you’re making in your Facebook profile picture, it describes one (and likely more) of your friends: the pouty-kissy duckface. And the minds behind Stop Making That Duckface! are sick of it. “Stop doing it,” reads the manifesto just above the address where...http://www.newser.com/story/74026/omg-enuf-with-ur-duckface.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 15 Nov 2009 13:50:25 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72616/rivals-no-more-facebook-and-myspace-talk-content.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHigh-ranking executives at both Facebook and MySpace confirm that the companies are in talks over some sort of content partnership—a development that isn’t a big surprise to at least one observer. Formerly intense competitors in the social-networking sphere, Caroline McCarthy writes, now “Facebook’s the one providing the platform for...http://www.newser.com/story/72616/rivals-no-more-facebook-and-myspace-talk-content.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 26 Oct 2009 22:07:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72320/myspace-gives-up-in-race-with-facebook.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMySpace has officially waved the white flag in its battle with Facebook. The company’s new CEO—ex-Facebook exec Chris DeWolfe—tells the Financial Times that the company now sees itself as more of a music and entertainment hub than a social networking site. “Facebook is not our competition,” he says....http://www.newser.com/story/72320/myspace-gives-up-in-race-with-facebook.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 22 Oct 2009 11:52:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71977/facebook-has-300m-users-most-bored.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFacebook has finally turned a profit, and can boast 300 million users—and it may be on its way out. The web has seen dozens of social networking sites come, gain buzz, get huge, and then implode or mutate as users looked for the next big thing—remember Friendster, Livejournal,...http://www.newser.com/story/71977/facebook-has-300m-users-most-bored.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 Oct 2009 11:54:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71735/facebook-refuseniks-still-sorta-use-it.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Washington Post today profiles an increasingly rare breed: people in their 20s and 30s who don't use Facebook or other such sites. And though the “refuseniks” interviewed have different rationales—privacy, “morals and beliefs,” being “old-school in the personal touch way,” many share something in common that speaks to...http://www.newser.com/story/71735/facebook-refuseniks-still-sorta-use-it.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70540/addicted-to-facebook-youre-likely-urban-and-affluent.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFacebook and Twitter users are more likely to be urban and affluent than the rest of the US population, according to a new Nielsen study, while MySpace aficionados tend to have lower incomes. People in the top third of the income bracket are 25% more likely to use Facebook than...http://www.newser.com/story/70540/addicted-to-facebook-youre-likely-urban-and-affluent.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 10:41:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70165/horrorcore-rap-killings-shock-sleepy-va-town.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFarmville is a sleepy Virginia town of 7,000, hardly the kind of place you’d expect a Californian “horrorcore” rapper to brutally bludgeon four people to death, Yet that's exactly what 20-year-old Richard Alden Samuel McCroskey III, aka “Syko Sam,” is suspected of doing. “I mean, things like this don’t...http://www.newser.com/story/70165/horrorcore-rap-killings-shock-sleepy-va-town.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 24 Sep 2009 8:29:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69848/rapper-who-posted-murder-lyrics-busted-in-4-killings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn aspiring California "horrorcore" rapper who posted songs about killing on his MySpace page is being held as a suspect in the murder of four people, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch . Richard Samuel Alden McCroskey III, 20, was arrested as he awaited a flight back home from Virginia, where the bodies...http://www.newser.com/story/69848/rapper-who-posted-murder-lyrics-busted-in-4-killings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 20 Sep 2009 12:25:18 CDT