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A recent study from the Federal Trade Commission has found that most mobile apps for kids are secretly collecting data from their smartphones.  Depending on the App, the type of data that's being collected is everything from behavior, web browsing habits to phone numbers, GPS location and device ID's. Should this concern you?

This survey was conducted in Australia, but we're pretty sure EVERYONE feels the same way. Here are the five things from DailyTelegraph you do on Facebook that make your friends hate you, and the percentage of people who hate it:

According to a new survey from Mashable, American teenagers would rather take a VOW OF SILENCE and never communicate with anyone again, than go back to writing letters, using a landline, or worst of all, talking face-to-face.

If you're one of 64,000 Americans infected with DNS malware you will lose your connection to the Internet on Monday, July 9th. But the FBI has your back and detecting and removing the malware for your computer is a matter of a few clicks.

When we were kids, we literally counted down the seconds until we were 16, which meant we could get our driver's license, which meant we had freedom and independence and real social lives.

Every time the Internet goes down, we realize just how dependent we are on having it constantly available.  But I don't know that I would die without it.

I check my Facebook before I check my email...it's true. If you are the same way, you might want to know that because of our obsession with Facebook it is KILLING AMERICAN BUSINESS. According to a new survey by Arizona Republic, the average employee's social networking costs their company $10,790 a year in lost productivity...

The Internet photo sensation called "planking," which can be best described as extreme lying down, led to a 20-year-old Australian man plunging to his death while partaking in the fad this weekend, police said. Queensland police said the man fell several stories from a Brisbane high-rise early Sunday morning while engaging in the activity, in which the planker lies flat on their stomach

File this under "So why in the world did you buy one?" A survey by Ipsos OTX of 5,013 adults has found that 19 percent of smart phone owners have never used their device to access the Internet. Furthermore, 32 percent have never used an app, assuring that their smart phone Internet experience -- for which they are presumably paying a monthly charge for -- is extremely limited.

Apparently, falling in love with someone face-to-face is for old folks.  In this day and age, people are more than happy to fall in love FACEBOOK-TO-FACEBOOK.  According to a new study, more than one out of three Americans say they believe it's possible to fall in love online . . . without ever meeting the person face-to-face.

Do you have a password on your Internet connection at home?  I'm guessing a few of you are saying "yes" . . . more of you are saying "um, maybe?" . . . and plenty of you are saying "thank goodness my neighbors don't use a password on theirs." According to a new nationwide survey, 32% of Americans . . . or ONE out of THREE . . . admit they're stealing their neighbor's

Internet addiction isn't just for "World of Warcraft" players and chat room shut-ins anymore.  According to a new Nielsen survey, if you had to give up cable, your cell phone, the Internet, or FOOD . . . you'd do anything to keep your Internet.