Halloween comes to Mafia Wars on Facebook, Myspace, Yahoo, Friendster and even the iPhone. Your Mafia family will rule Halloween starting Friday with a new Rob a Candy Truck mission on Mafia Wars. Complete the Halloween mission and you will loot a Treat Bag. This Mafia Wars Halloween mission can only be done once a day, so don't expect to wrack up hundreds of points in one sitting.

Ever since Facebook started offering members "suggestions" on how to interact with their Facebook friends, users have complained that they have been offered suggestions for interacting with dead friends. In response to the complaints, Facebook security chief Max Kelly reminded Facebookers on Oct. 26 that they can have their dead friends' profiles memorialized.

It’s official – The Wall Street Journal has declared the death of email. According to a October 12th article by Jessica E. Vascellaro headlined “Why Email No Longer Rules ... and what that means for the way we communicate”:

Microsoft announced back in August that Twitter and Facebook would be coming to the Xbox 360 dashboard. Microsoft announced that the update will be released in mid November in the UK. A beta for the update will start at some point between the 15th and 31st October in the US. Thus will add functionality for both Twitter and Facebook to the dashboard. Perfect timing for commercials that would air just prior to Black Friday's holiday shopping madness.

Phoenix Media/Communications is suing the social networking site Facebook. Phoenix, which owns The Boston Phoenix and other local alternative weeklies and websites, filed the lawsuit in US Disrict Court in Boston on Wednesday stating that Facebook has allegedly violated a patent related to setting up online personal profile pages.

If you have a few of the new Angus burgers at McDonald's, you will surely put on some weight. Your wallet might get a little heavier with cash as well. Starting October 6, McDonald's is bringing back its popular Monopoly game and it's going to be integrated with social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. There's also another twist: There is a possibility someone will win $1 million every day.

The Vatican has reached out to its followers via social networking sites such as Facebook, and now NATO seems to want to do so. What, are they ignoring MySpace?

Facebook has pulled, for obvious reasons, a poll asking users to vote on the question "Should Obama be killed?"

Starting now, people on Twitter will have an opportunity to have two-minute, two-way voice chats with other Twitter users, according to the September 17th ComputerWorld article by Sharon Gaudin headlined “Voice feature for Twitter goes into beta today.”

The world's number one social networking site went from 150 million users to 300 million users in just over nine months. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reported yesterday that the company had not only reached 300 million users, it become cash-flow positive ahead of schedule. The rapid growth of the Facebook site is not surprising with its general appeal to users worldwide.

The distinctions between Facebook and Twitter just got hazier with the introduction of the @ sign on Facebook.