"It's not a matter of choice between Facebook and MySpace, it was a movement to Facebook from MySpace, " she said, a movement that largely included the educated and the upper-class.
Turner insists that Facebook and MySpace aren't the evils that regulators should be after.
Everyone knows that online social networks like FaceBook, MySpace and LinkedIn are powerful marketing tools.
Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter didn't exist when George W. Bush took office eight years ago.
Asked whether Facebook and MySpace compete with dating sites, Match.com said social-networking sites have a different objective.
For many parents, Facebook and MySpace are helpful conversation starters, particularly with older teens or young adults.
Businesses without a significant number of Facebook or MySpace fans may have difficulty swaying buyers, he adds.
The near real time could be differentiation from Facebook, MySpace, or whatever Google does with social activity.
Facebook predecessors MySpace and Friendster shone brightly but fizzled once finicky teenagers moved on to the next big thing.
The former gets to keep his Facebook and MySpace communications private and the latter has to turn them over.
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Those pages eliminate the need for Facebook or MySpace, he says, and allow the schools to monitor all student-teacher communication.
He acknowledged that in some cases, teachers have become the public face of inappropriate Facebook and MySpace relationships with kids.
"We ought to be on Facebook and MySpace and Twitter, the sort of social media that appeal to younger people, " she argues.
It's where social networking, in the form of the incredibly successful Cyworld, has been abuzz since 1999 -- predating both Facebook and MySpace.
Peter Daou, Hillary Clinton's internet director, says that YouTube, even more than Facebook or MySpace, has had a huge impact on the campaign.
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The dating profile, like the Facebook or Myspace profile, is a vehicle for projecting a curated and stylized version of oneself into the world.
As Mayer points out, both Facebook and MySpace were targeted by FTC complaints of deception for similar issues over the last year.
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In the new era of helicopter parenting, more and more parents and kids are meeting up, and clashing, on Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites.
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Opposing lawyers will press any advantage they have, and personal information on sites like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn is like decoded bulletins from enemy territory.
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Puri is among a number of small-fry entrepreneurs using Facebook, MySpace and other networking sites to communicate with fans, target potential customers and generate word-of-mouth hype.
We saw these types on our 2006 list: FaceBook, MySpace, YouTube, Club Penguin, these types of sites on 2006, and we're continuing to see them in 2007.
Personal information is abundant on sites like Facebook and MySpace.
Tweetdeck, for example, can no longer be assumed to be a Twitter-only client, because it also allows you to access your LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, Google Buzz and Foursquare accounts.
"The key is getting them on these Web sites where the kids are, like Facebook and MySpace, " says Bob Dorfman, a sports business expert with Baker Street Partners in San Francisco.
Facebook and MySpace have kickstarted many a romantic relationship.
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Schumer is urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to provide guidelines for social networking sites, like Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter on how private information submitted by online users can be used and disseminated.
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The obvious digital detective work: issuing subpoenas to PayPal, Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo to get identifying information and IP addresses for the person who had posted fake profiles, placed ads, and posted videos online.
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For Zynga founder Mark Pincus, the formula for gaming success on Facebook, MySpace and other sites was as simple as it might seem counterintuitive: create simple games that people like but can easily set aside.
Since the outburst of pessimism about the internet among sociologists in the 1990s, the web has recently become an intensely social medium, thanks in large part to proliferating online social networks such as Facebook and MySpace.
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