There's just something about gossip that gets people's tongues wagging. So when I ran across two social network-related rumors this morning, I had to do something about it. Obviously, the first thing that came to mind was "spread the news!"

First up, an article in the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Bill Gates has stopped using Facebook. Gasp! Does this mean that Facebook and Bill Gates are... "no longer in a relationship"??? Turns out ol' Bill was spending a half an hour every day on the site, but eventually grew tired of accepting all the friend requests he was getting (up to 8000 a day apparently). Gee, I never knew he was such a popular guy.

The other interesting tidbit of non-authenticated-information floating around the internet today, is that social networking site Bebo definitely may have been acquired by Google for $1 Billion. Of course, there's nothing to substantiate this story besides a "reliable source" who claims it has "definitely happened", but that's what makes it such a great rumor. It's what we don't know that makes us curious after all.

Ok, that's probably enough dirt on the dirt. Everyone get back to work.