What Are Friends For?
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Need a contact to score a big deal? Social-networking firms say their software can find a corporate friend
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Science & environment: Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace do not help you make more genuine close friends.
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By ANICK JESDANUN The Associated Press; Staff writer Joe Killian contributed to this report.  NEW YORK __ The operators of the online hangout Facebook wanted to help users save time by highlighting changes their friends make to their personal profile pages.
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Two new Web services launched last week aim to help people tap their friends for tips about where to eat, shop and play. -Leslie Walker
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Not until my early 50s did I make a startling discovery: Most of my close friends are introverts. As I brought up the subject with one after another, we spoke in low, confessional voices of feeling numb with fatigue following workdays or social outings we'd otherwise enjoyed, of frequent longings to retreat to a quiet place....
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Being open and easy-going can win you friends, and it probably won't raise your cancer risk either, according to a study published Monday.
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These aren't your teenager's social networking sites. Take a spin on MySpace and Friendster and most adults find amusement in the concept and technology, but relatively few practical reasons to keep coming back for more. They've been a boon to a mostly younger set of users looking to meet new friends, find a date, or just generally kill some time online.
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Tycho:  We'll return to those two in a moment - for now, let's get a look at our supposed protagonists.  What are they doing?  Let's find out.  Did they make any new friends?
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Fears that mobile devices keep you from connecting with others are groundless. Most of us use them to keep connections strong with those we love.
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Q: I recently started working for a new employer, and I find I'm receiving a number of r&#xE9;sum&#xE9;s from former colleagues. To be honest, I don't feel comfortable recommending these people to my new company. Although we're on friendly terms, I don't have the strongest confidence in their abilities. I've also been given r&#xE9;sum&#xE9;s by friends of friends, but I ...
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"Mash" lets people create profiles for their friends and modify their profile.
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LONDON Sept. 23, 2004 - It has long been suspected that man&#39;s best friend has a special ability to sense when something is wrong with us.
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NEW YORK - The operators of the online hangout Facebook wanted to help users save time by highlighting changes their friends make to their personal profile pages. Instead, the new feature has drawn complaints from thousands of its users and even threats of a boycott.
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My first message is one of respect, trust and friendship. These feelings have linked our two peoples for centuries.
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For business or pleasure? Reg Technology Panel Over the past two or three years, zanily named social networking tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Flickr and Twitter seem to have come from nowhere to wheedle their way into just about every aspect of online life, both in business and pleasure. Such facilities share a handful of simple, but powerful core features: each will enable information sharing of some form, will have some kind of community orientation and will be constructed in a way that several of the blighters can be merged (or should I say, âmashed upâ) into clever, multifaceted concoctions of collaborative capability.â¦
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Thanks to a clean, easy-to-use interface, a brand-new social networking site may edge out its competitors. Invite your friends to Thanksgiving dinner the easy way. In Monkey Bites.
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By Karen Owen, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Jun. 24--Local churches are being recruited by a faith-based program to befriend ex-convicts and help them stay out of jail or prison.   Fresh Start for Life Inc.