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  1. Added Nov 29, 2007 by katiebda
    An Amsterdam teenager has been arrested for allegedly hacking into other Habbo Hotel users? accounts and stealing €4000 worth of virtual furniture. Four other teenagers have been questioned for apparently moving the furniture into their rooms. It?s not clear whether the arrest is based more on hacking, the theft of virtual goods, or a combination of the two.
  2. Added Nov 21, 2007 by katiebda and 1 other
    Ms. Hargittai says the results show that online social networks evoke real-world communities and demographics. “Online actions and interactions cannot be seen as tabula rasa activities, independent of existing offline identities,” she writes. “Rather, constraints on one’s everyday life are reflected in online behavior, thereby limiting—for some more than others—the extent to which students from different backgrounds may interact with students not like themselves.”
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