"Facebook is pulling in – gasp – your parents" (Sacramento Bee, 02/26/09)

The social networking Web site that started off as an online hangout for college kids is exploding in popularity among grown-ups. The real kind. The kind over 35.

Between June 2008 and January, the number of Facebook members age 35-54 nearly quadrupled – and members older than 55 tripled, according to iStrategyLabs, a digital marketing agency.

"25. We Never Do Random Things. Until We Do." (WashPost, 02/06/09)

Narcissism? Pseudo-celebrity? Boredom? Whatever the motivator, Facebook's "25 Things" lists are surely clogging up your news feed.

"Student Fights Record of ‘Cyberbullying’" (NYTimes, 02/07/09)

Katherine Evans said she was frustrated with her English teacher for ignoring her pleas for help with assignments and a brusque reproach when she missed class to attend a school blood drive.

So Ms. Evans, who was then a high school senior and honor student, logged onto the networking site Facebook and wrote a rant against the teacher, Sarah Phelps.

"Teaching Teenagers About Harassment" (NYTimes, 01/26/09)

A new campaign from the Advertising Council highlights social issues such as digital dating violence, sending nonstop text messages or posting cruel comments on a boyfriend’s or girlfriend’s Facebook or MySpace page.

"Friends, Until I Delete You" (NYTimes, 01/29/09)

Disussion of the policy and netiquette of defriending people on Facebook. Great opener for a discussion of online ethics, identity, and manners.

"Girls suspended for teacher jibes" (BBC, 01/09/09)

Dozens of girls were suspended from a British school for setting up a defamatory Facebook site about a teacher. The page, which they called The Hate Society, has been removed from the site.

Yearbooks Fade as Networking Sites Propagate

Thanks to technology cultural shifts and the immediacy offered by social-networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace, annual yearbooks might be dying out among the college crowd.

Brave New World of Digital Intimacy

Facebook's News Feed, Twitter, Flickr, and other forms of incessant online contact have created a brave new electronic world of "ambient awareness." The New York Times, September 5, 2008

Will Colleges Friend Facebook?

This Inside Higher Ed article describes a company's new Facebook application, which addresses privacy concerns for colleges that want to engage and support students in social networking.