Google is preparing another attempt to crack the social networking world owned by Facebook, and to a lesser extent, Twitter.

Looking to start an online criminal enterprise? Look no further than an Eastern European hacker website that offers stolen Facebook accounts for between $25 and $45. Just ask for "kirllos" and he should be able to set you up.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is on the Twitter! And because "the internet can't be just for the bourgeoisie," he's invited Bolivian President Evo Morales and Fidel Castro. A specter is haunting Latin America—the specter of Twitter! [Yahoo]

A California man has been indicted for "cyber extortion" after he launched a website and threatened to use his social network connections to embarrass New York Life Insurance unless the company refunded his premiums.

"Baby-killer" shouter and actual giant baby Congressman Randy Neugebauer hired a sexy consulting firm to help sex up his sexy reelection bid.

Blogging may not destroy the culture after all, because the controllers of all trends—teenagers—are kinda over it: Only 14% of teens say they blog, down from 28% in 2006. Apparently they prefer newfangled activities like social-networking. [Pew]

Good news: The Feds are finally savvy enough to scoop the blogosphere. Bad news: Now we'll never get a screen grab of his Facebook profile. Panty bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's social networking persona is emerging, and it's startlingly banal.

Remember how, in Catch Me If You Can, fugitive Leonardo DiCaprio kept calling Detective Tom Hanks to taunt him? Here is a convicted burglar doing the same thing, in real time on Facebook. Should we celebrate or fear him?

When you poke your hot gastroenterologist on Facebook and get no response, don't worry: He's trying to be professional. The UK's largest medical professional organization has warned doctors not to respond to "flirtatious approaches" on social-networking sites.

Endless joke/former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has posted her resume on the middle-aged person social networking site LinkedIn. On her
LinkedIn page, Palin says she's interested in "job inquiries," "business deals," and "getting back in touch."

Hooray! Even social networking sites have caste systems. Richie rich folk who live in urban areas use Twitter and Facebook more than their poor, younger country bumpkin counterparts, who still use something called MySpace. [Computer World]

Remember when your Mom would go into your room each morning to wake you for school? Well those days are gone, now that parents are so busy Facebooking that they have to text message their kids to wake them up.

BusinessWeek conducted a little investigation recently and discovered that while a number of prominent CEOs have joined social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn over the past few years, very few had managed to make many friends. What about New York's population of socialites and do-nothing fameseekers?…

Oh god that New York Times social networking thing is live, for everyone(?), and it's popping up on top of everything we're trying to read. Go away! We don't want to join TimesPeople, a network of Times readers. Honestly the last thing the internet needs is another method of forwarding Krugman columns to people who…

J.Lo isn't one of them, but Elle creative director Joe Zee isn't suffering from a shortage of notable friends on Facebook. Just a few of the 1,714 people you might recognize: Narciso Rodriguez, Alice Roi, Samantha Ronson, Charlotte Ronson, Jane Rosenthal, Anne Slowey, Al Reynolds, Leven Rambin, Lara Shriftman, Horacio…

Kelly Killoren Bensimon is a busy woman what with her new TV show (Real Housewives of New York City), columns in Page Six and Gotham magazines, her busy social calendar, and the two kids she has with her ex-husband, famed photog Gilles Bensimon. But she makes time for Facebook, too! Just a few of her 484 online pals…

Bedposted, the newest unnecessary social-networking scheme, is about sex. Yet, somehow they've made it boring, because you're essentially supposed to create, like, an Excel spreadsheet: "Simply log in after every time you have sex and fill out a few simple fields. Before long, you'll have a rolling history of your sex…

Page Six today brings news of a faaabulous bash in St. Tropez on the yacht of Denise Rich, the Clinton pal and wife of disgraced financier Marc Rich. And to help her bring out the real stars to her party, Denise has teamed up with Erik Wachtmeister, who runs A Small World, the much-hyped "Myspace for Millionaires"…