
A recent study reports that Facebook users who upload flattering photos of themselves and have a ton of "friends" are
really just narcissistic. Well, it's a little more complicated; the researchers can suggest that the social-networking website can be used as a tool to detect narcissism in the people who use it.
As for the signs that you're a little too into yourself: Posting flattering photos as your profile pic - who doesn't?!; and maintaining a large stable of Facebook friends - I'm over it, since I used to add anyone and everyone in my MySpace days.

So I know I already asked you last week if you were
concerned with Facebook's new layout and many of you had mixed emotions about the whole thing. Well I was on the fence until I signed into my
Facebook account yesterday (for the first time this week) and discovered why people are so up in arms about it. The new layout takes a bit of getting used to and isn't the most intuitive interface; is it just me or did the other one seem a lot cleaner?

Used to be, if you wanted to be Santa's friend, you'd be a good little girl or boy during the year and he would reward you come Christmas time. But hey, those are the old ways of the world! Now if you want to be Santa's friend, you just have to add him on Facebook.

Take it from Judith Martin, Miss Manners herself, that when it comes to friend requests on social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace, you don't have to feel obligated to accept these invitations — especially when it involves mixing business with pleasure. The columnist in the Chicago Tribune recently
said this about turning a blind eye to certain invitations:
Miss Manners is not one to suggest ignoring invitations, but this is more of a commercial solicitation. Even messages such as these from people you know socially are so widely distributed as to resemble the sort of open invitations that teenagers post on trees when their parents are out of town.

The biggest news surrounding
Facebook lately has to do with its big "redesign." It's supposed to make sharing and viewing profile content easier, but there are some people who are so up in arms about the whole thing, that they started a FB petition entitled "
Against the 'New Facebook'."
Facebookers say they aren't totally against the change, they just wish they were given the option of choosing which layout they want (old or the new) and they are hoping for a splash of color as well.