
A 15-year-old was arrested in Mumbai on Thursday for making a bogus Facebook profile of a model and demanding money from the people on the page of the social networking site, police said. He was arrested under the relevant sections of Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology act, they said. ...

08:22 AM, Jan 11, 2013

Mumbai: Social networking giant Facebook is making a "huge effort" to weed out fake profiles to prevent misuse of such identities, a senior company official has said. "Absolutely, there is a huge effort," Facebook India business manager Pavan Varma told PTI when asked about the company's action on this front. If Facebook doubts the ownership of an account, it will ask the user to identify himself/herself, he said. The doubt...

02:32 PM, Sep 09, 2012

Mumbai: Social networking giant Facebook is making a "huge effort" to weed out fake profiles to prevent misuse of such identities, a senior company official has said. "Absolutely, there is a huge effort," Facebook India business manager Pavan Varma told PTI when asked about the company's action on this front. If Facebook doubts the ownership of an account, it will ask the user to identify himself/herself, he said. The doubt...

02:19 PM, Sep 09, 2012

London: Trying to woo a woman just by posting your best-looking snap alongside an online profile may not be the best idea after all -- a study has found that women can identify a physically attractive man just by reading his profile. According to the university study, good-looking men were able to convey their confidence and attractiveness in their written self-description and the women volunteers were able to recognise their...

04:16 PM, Nov 15, 2011

Senator Obama got a new profile on the Internet but he's not amused. ...

10:59 AM, Aug 01, 2008