Social networking profiles can be dangerous for everyone. Even the most harmless photo taken and then uploaded can be used against you. For the politician? It can be deadly. tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.asylum.com/2009/09/17/facebook-political-scandals-why-we-will-never-run-for-office/'; tweetmeme_source = 'asylumdotcom'; While some unfortunately exposed officials barely escape with the ...

Twitter is America's favorite new TMI playground, but why does all "too much information" have to be so ... lame? If 95 percent of Twitterers can tweet about what they ate for lunch today, we need those who really push the boundaries of TMI -- taking the form to a whole new level. We went in search of Twitter's most talented TMI-ers and found an important genre in the Twitterscape: Those who ...

There's been quite a lot of hubbub surrounding Twitter. Not only has everyone been talking (or tweeting) about it, but the recently birthed social-media phenom is already spreading false rumors like a 13-year-old. With the growing popularity of the "retweet" (where one user simply attaches a "RT" or "retweet" to another person's tweet) comes the ongoing chains of unsubstantiated hearsay. While ...

Attention wannabe vigilantes! Drop your homemade weaponry, because these days you can get your crime-solving fill without even leaving the house. The new ultimate device for catching the culprit? Facebook. This trend certainly isn't new, and as people catch on, criminals are getting busted -- caught because they just couldn't escape the allure of bragging about their criminal achievements on the ...