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Can Your Facebook Profile Get You Into a Bar?

Bouncers in the UK are now using patrons’ Facebook accounts to doublecheck IDs at bars.

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Has Spring Break Been ‘Facebooked Into Respectability’?

Thanks to social media, college kids’ vacation plans might be just a little tamer from now on.

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Judge Orders Divorced Couple to Swap Facebook Passwords

Getting a divorce? Be careful what you post.

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Facebook Deals: Discounts You Can Use. The Cost: Your Privacy?

Facebook waged war against Foursquare when it introduced the location service Places a few months ago. Earlier this week, the social networking giant went after the likes of Groupon with the launch of Deals, a feature that lets participating vendors send promos directly to your phone (provided you’ve “checked-in” using Places, of course). 

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Facebook ‘Panic Button’ For U.K. Minors; Would It Fly in the U.S.?

A Facebook “panic button” for 13-18 year olds was introduced in the U.K. Monday.

Facebook reminds you of life without it if you try to de-activate.

Why Is It So Hard to Delete Your Facebook Account?

Facebook’s had a bad week over concerns about how it treats user data. Ready to delete your account? It’s harder than you may think.

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Facebook Privacy Then and Now

Matt McKeon, a developer with the Visual Communications Lab at IBM Research’s Center for Social Software, shows how Facebook privacy has, ahem, evolved over time.