on myspace.> my name is clay calamity. so, i just picked calamity because i thought it sounded cool. these are links to comment me, message me or add me as a friend. >> narrator: downstairs, his seven-year-old brother is getting a primer in socializing on the web on club penguin. >> he invited me. he said, "if you want to be friends." i'm his friend now. >> narrator: this is morris county, new jersey. but it could be anywhere in america. here, like in the rest of the country, some 90% of teenagers are online, a number that's still growing. >> my mom is not home. it's 3:00 in the morning, and i can be as loud as i want. so that's what we're going to do. >> narrator: for teenagers, the internet is an outlet for self expression... >> hey, guys, what's up. it's me, josh. >> narrator: ...a place to complain about adults.. >> ...my parents, aka, the parental units. yeah. >> narrator: ...and a means to connect with each other. >> uh, my name is lorenzo, and i want to be your friend. >> narrator: this is

there's myspace and friendstrks ter. it's not the first or the last, but i think what the genius is the site was simple and so perfect. it didn't have the mistakes of myspace and moved and lived with society. it started out exclusive, rolled out college to college, and did a lot of brilliant things that allowed it to reach this level. it's not the first or the lastment you're correct in that, but the genius is in what the site is or isn't. it's not a free-for-all like myspace or a glitchy problematic thing like friendster. facebook is actually usable, and it does what it's supposed to do, and his genius is not like something we've never seen before, but it's that facebook is the perfect version of what we've seen. >> is it changing the world? >> yes. if you wanted to meet a girl, you had to go meet her and talk to people. now did to facebook, look at your friends, friends, find someone, and say hi. it changed everything we do, our social lives, how we date, fall in love, break up. everything. >> what's the coalla eating

but is what myspace is all about. >> people are always looking for an angle or a story, and that wast that is not my whole story. it is tough when you get headlined as something that is not necessarily everything you are, but of the same time, it does not matter. it is a headline. people get to know you anyway. >> what is with the dogs? they are nice dogs. >> it was his idea to shoot with all the dogs. i thought it was a good idea. i had a song that was about a dog. it kind of tied it all in, and i thought it was funny. >> is not me. it is a dog. the new project is called "the fall." in november, i cannot wait for the troubled region the collaboration's project. -- i cannot wait for the collaboration project. it is very random. >> it is very random, and it is all people i love and respect. the label had an idea to put it together in a compilation album. i was surprised, but they all fit together. >> "the fall" is out now. october 2, i will see you. up next, a special performance from nora jones. "man of the hour." from her most recent cd, here is norah jones. the night from los angel

." >> peer-to-peer lending networks are the facebooks and myspaces of money. but instead of collecting friends, loan-seekers look for individuals who want a better return on their money than they might get from a savings account. loan amounts vary anywhere from several hundred dollars to several thousand. in the u.s., the largest p2p lenders are lendingclub.com and prosper.com. as traditional banks have become more tight-fisted in recent years, p2p lending has really taken off. in 2007, the dollar amount of p2p loans outstanding in the u.s. was $647 million. that figure is expected to grow to nearly $5.8 billion by the end of this year. here are some strategies for getting your p2p request funded: pay special attention to your credit score and other indicators of your financial health. to participate, you'll need a credit score above 640. it also pays to have a low debt- to-income ratio, and a solid employment history. be honest, upfront and clear about the purpose of the loan. transparency is key. be persuasive. convince potential lenders that you're a good c

proudly advertised his birth to relatives on myspace. there was a brief conversation with her earlier today. >> she wasn't doing good. hard to deal with something like this. nephew being a kid and all. you don't expect things like this to happen. >> this is something that no parent or family wants to go through. anyone who has a weapon in their house, a handgun, they need to make sure that has a trigger lock on it. it needs to be put in a safe away out of reach from kids in there is no trigger lock. >> reporter: both parents are still in jail but the father faces an additional charge because is he a felon who has served a sentence but is still not allowed to have a firearm. dana, he told police he usually keeps it in a safe but for some reason today he loaded it and put it in a place where two boys apparently were able to get to it. >> just a profoundly sad ordeal. >> yes. joe vazquez in antioch, thank you. >>> well, in oakland a man who went to police to report a shooting ended up under arrest in connection with more than 30 armed robbe

myspace and twitter were cited, but facebook was the biggest source for divorce material.und to be having inappropriate friendships and chats withhey they re tn'we supposed to be friending. >> sports is come next. [ female announcer ] safeway talks the main course. mmm. you smell that? yeah, wait. what is that? love. smells like ham. [ female announcer ] serve a main course brimming with comfort and joy. safeway. ingredients for life. a land of natural beauty and economic opportunity. at bank of america, we live and work here, with thousands of employees, hundreds of branches and hundreds of atms. every day, we're working to help set opportunity in motion... from supporting the redwood forest foundation and california academy of sciences to funding the green music center at sonoma state university because when you're giving, lending, and investing in more communities across the country, more opportunities happen. when you don't have to cook, you have time for other things. yeah, like what? i don't know. fishing. [ clears throat ] oh. ha. ha. [ female announcer ] when we do

la quinn data proudly advertised his birth to relatives on myspace. la quinn data's brother had a brief conversation with her earlier today. >> umm, she wasn't doin' good. it wasn't good. it is hard to deal with something like this. nephew is, you know, being a kid and all and you don't things like this to happen. >> this is something that no parent or family wants to go through. anyone who has a weapon in their house, a handgun, they immediate to make sure that has a trigger lock on it, without a trigger lock it needs to be put in a safe away out of reach of kids. >> reporter: both parents are still in jail but the father faces an additional charge, the father is a felon, he has finished his sentence but he is still not allowed to have a weapon. >>> in oakland a man who went to police to report a shooting ended up under arrest in connection with more than 30 armed robberies. walter sales told police somebody shot ate him or he wasn't hit. an officer noticed he matched the suspect description in a recent robbery. he ultimately confessed to robbing sev

social networking sites such as myspace and twitter were also cited in that survey, but facebook was by far the biggest source for divorce material. researchers say most people were found to be having inappropriate chats with people they weren't supposed to be chatting with. >> and there's the record for everyone to see. >>> we'll be right back with the top baby names for . hi20 one >>10 tom's odgo. ne >>> if you know any kids named abigail or liam, they are trend setters. those are the only two new additions to the top ten list of baby names. neither made the top five, though. here's the girls' list. sophia, isabela, olivia. those are two names of jessica's kids. emma and chloe. babycenter.com says for the sixth year in a row aden is number 1 for boys, jackson, ethan and david. thomas, zack came in at 70 but lisa didn't even make that list. that's because it's unique. >> yes, it is that. but i'm going to call you abigail from now on. >> okay, liam. >>> "nightly news" coming up next. >> please join us at 6:00 for more local news. see you then.

all the other services most notably myspace, really were all about role-playing, pseudonyms, handles and pretty much the internet until facebook came along was a place of primarily anonymity and pseudonyms and very few people use their real name and anything they did on the internet like on aol i was david 406 and there wasn't room in an e-mail address to use your full name. but it is interesting, i just realized lately i haven't used it until after i used -- wrote the book i always resisted this anonymity of the internet about if i'm going to be on their identifying myself there is no reason not to use my real name. so my e-mail address is david underscore kirkpatrick at yahoo!.com which i gave myself in 1995 so some part of me was kind of oriented towards this mindset of identifying myself and probably wasn't as offended by some aspects of facebook as certain other members of my generation which is the baby boomers. so this identity is big. is important to keep this in mind because by being your real self and using your real name is a lot of things become possible that couldn't hav

. >> reporter: whether it's linked-in, myspace, facebook or twitter or any of the hundreds of social kneltworks cytons the web, more and more people are -- sites on the web, more and more people are logging on every day. >> they have become ingrained. a fundamental way for younger adults to communicate with ichor. >> reporter: a new poll shows that 50% of americans belong to one or more social networks sites. and 34% call social networks helpful to our society. while 39% call them harmful. >> for people in their 20s and 30s, it's very much a part of the norm. 40 somethings, while most of them take part in social network, they're not quite as strong in the use as younger adults, but once you hit the 50 barrier, not a lot of people taking part. >> reporter: the rasmussen poll shows that 80% use it for personal reasons. for her, it's definitely personality. >> a lot of the people i don't know. so i'm talking to people from different countries, meeting new people like from all over the world. >> reporter: but what about privacy and security? the rasmussen poll shows that 82% of americans

blee pleas are out on twitter, myspace, facebook.g anything from the social networking sites from hosts there? >> that's kind of a frustration for us. we haven't been able to get the cooperation from some of the social media centers, like faisbofai facebook that we would like to and have we feel there may be helpful information there, but we simp hi have not gotting the cooperation we would like at this time. >> there were online exchanges and alluding to perhaps a difficult time between brittany and her mother >>> up next, we are exposing five shopping secrets stores use to make you spend more money. spend more no more. this is "the early show" on cbs. [ coughing ] [ tea kettle whistle ] [ water pouring ] [ punches ] [ male announcer ] beat your worst flu symptoms. new theraflu max d contains the most powerful medicine allowable without a prescription to fight your worst flu symptoms. theraflu max d. serious power. take the power of theraflu in warming caplets or warming syrup. until the combination of three good probiotics in phill

. >> reporter: on sites like youtube, facebook, myspace and twitter, more and more americans are makingrivate information public. put it together with public documents like newspaper accounts and property records and a portrait emerges. take supreme court justice antonin scalia. using free information on the internet, a fordham university law school class came up with 15 pages of information, including scalia's home address and phone number, even movies and foods he likes. >> if we were willing to spend $100 for the project, we would have been able to acquire far more intrusive and far scarier information. >> reporter: any time you hit the send button your information is no longer your own. he says your frequent flyer program, movie account, book purchases, even some searches, can be tracked, stored and sometimes sold. >> i have a window into your soul. i know what you believe. i know what you think, and i know who your family is and know who your friends are. i know your politics. >> reporter: orkut.com says it has updated its policies and tools to find and remove fake profiles like th

twitter that allow ideas to propagate much faster but i think about what calls the friendsters or the myspaces to collapse, and it's usually those companies losing to themselves. they lose their sense of focus. maybe they're too focused on the competition or they're off doing interviews with charlie rose instead of working on growing their business. >> charlie: liez do not say that. >> but i thi as ng awe continue -- >> charlie: please do not say that. >> but i think as long as we continue to look at what our customers and our merchants want and be as fanatical about that as we were when we started the business, then we'll be in pretty good shape. >> charlie: so focus is what those that don't excel -- or those that lose their meteoric rise, it's focus. they forget -- >> what's important. >> charlie: what's important. they forget why they got to the place that they are. >> maybe. >> charlie: so what's the future of groupon, other than countries that you haven't tapped, cities that you haven't been to? >> self-driving cars. we're going to get into that. beyond that -- >> charlie: what's a self-d

so does myspace and twitter. so we're covered, right? maybe not so much.re are dangers here a lot of us haven't exactly considered. and here to help explaining all of these is peter gogle, a lawyer and computer industry specialist. he also wears a bunch of hats. peter, nice to have you on. let's talk privacy here. how -- a couple of questions right out of the gate here. how long has facebook's policy been set? would americans really even understand it? and how much does it actually protect us? >> that's more than one question, but i'll try to handle all of them. actually facebook makes changes to its privacy policy from time to time. it's part of the deal. usually when i take hands on who reads them, nobody bothers to read them. there's been a lot of pushback. the biggest change happened february about a year and a half ago. now when you post things on facebook, they can use it as long as it's there, and once you take it down, they no longer have the right to use it. but in terms of privacy, no one bothers valuing what they want to make private or public.

with myspace and twitter, i'm on it all the time, what was and what is?bile. everybody is going to be living in a cloud. instead of owning on your computer. buying all your songs, having all your dvds, we're going to have everything in the crowd-based technology. the mobile me. my personal hot spot. i can be connected wherever i am. >> we're living in the clouds. everybody's there. we still got to eat. take me through these. >> okay. this year was the big year of the fish taco. everywhere you went, there were fish tacos. >> i have one in my pocket right now. >> next year chicken. people want comfort foods. it's tough foods. we want something that feels solid, there's going to be fried chicken everywhere. >> easy to do. good price point. >> also to make at home. people are staying in a lot. >> and treats? >> cupcakes. people love to send them. bring them to places. pies are back. people like to make things pies, whether the fruit pies lemon meringues, single servings. >> miskwomrs. cuomo makes a ss raspberry crisp. what else? >> dream water. helps you drin

today myspace has 57 million users, twitter, more than 190 million, and facebook, more than 500 million and more than half of all u.s. trap -- traffic. the c0-creator for facebook was named "time" person of the year for 2010. caller: this is a great conversation. i am a communication major and that also teach. one of the things i noticed is there is so much content out there, it can be good and bad. yes, there is ready access to data but people that critically think about it. you can look at the political discourse we have in the country and we realize people did not critically think -- because there is so much data, some of stated that you could pick and choose from to foment your ideas that you did not have to think through. people have lost their ability to write. i deal with adults who can't construct a coherent paragraphs, and it is scary because they spend more time on facebook or just researching and they do not howl -- do not know how to create their content. as far as the internet changed me, i maintain a blog. it has taken awhile to generate a following but i gravitate to it.