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You’ve probably heard many of the cautions about lending money to people you know. As Benjamin Franklin put it, “Creditors have better memories than debtors.” In William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” Polonius advises his son Laertes, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend.”

Facebook is apparently getting a lot more unfriendly. Users are getting a lot more selective, deleting comments, photo tags, and even friends at a record rate, according to a new study released Friday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Many of us may have a long list of Facebook friends, but only two truly close friends we feel we can confide in. That's shrunk from an average of three most had 25 years ago, a study finds.

The tabloids are abuzz about a new study suggesting that Facebook can exacerbate the negative self-conceptions of kids troubled by low self-esteem. If you have 18 friends and see your neighbor has 1,118, the study says your sense of not measuring-up will get worse.

Do you spend time with a lot of friends? That might mean a particular part of your brain is larger than usual....

The more obese friends you have, the more likely you are to become obese, a new study suggests, confirming prior research that obesity is socially ...

College students use a number of strategies to prevent their female friends from engaging in risky sexual behavior after a night of heavy drinking, ...

Courteney Cox isn't done running from masked serial killers. The 45-year-old "Cougar Town" and "Friends" star says she's excited about returning to the horror genre in "Scream 4," the upcoming slasher sequel being written by Kevin Williamson, who wrote the first two films in the popular horror trilogy. Cox met her husband, 38-year-old actor David Arquette, on the set of the first "Scream" film in 1996.