WHEN you're surfing the Internet on your laptop from your dorm or home, do you know your personal details are being gathered secretly? And would you be surprised to know the information may be sold cheaply to advertisers and marketers?

Online anger-release "stores" have become extremely popular with young netizens, as shop owners are paid to listen to complaints, confidential secrets and even scoldings from customers.

Few could truly claim that teens are, on the whole, terribly useful.

ZHANG Haifeng, a 19-year-old medical student at Lanzhou University, has an odd habit when it comes to breaking up with his girlfriends.

Lazy, promiscuous, confused, selfish, brain damaged and overall hopeless are all labels that have been given to China's so-called post-90s generation, or those who were born after 1990 who are now mostly in their teens today.

On the first day of classes at a Los Angeles high school, several American boys came up to a Chinese boy and said: “Hi, what’s up?” Upon hearing their greeting, the boy, who had just moved to the US with his parents, raised his head and looked at the sky.

The Chinese identity card looks just like any other: It is the right size, has the right symbols and carries the person's image and personal details.

The free sharing of accommodation, or 'couch surfing', is fast catching on in China where hosts see it as a great way to experience the world from the comfort of their own home.

Recently, a post titled "Without money for the World Expo, a girl offers kisses for ideas" was popular on major sites, which caused a stir among netizens. The girl claimed that she wanted to go inside the Expo, but don't have enough money after working for only two years.

Min Liu, a 21-year-old liberal arts student at the New School in New York City, got a Facebook account at 17 and chronicled her college life in detail, from rooftop drinks with friends to dancing at a downtown club. Recently, though, she has had second thoughts.

WANG Xing finally found a few minutes to sit down at a sandwich shop, after four rounds of scheduling and rescheduling. When asked about the store's location, he said: "Google it."

I Guess there was no better time to find out about the social-networking website Foursquare than on International Foursquare Day.

It’s “laughably absurd” on one blog and a “magical revolution” on another.

CELEBRITIES tired of running from and wiggling through paparazzi crowds are fighting back by taking away the business that birthed the snoops.

The photograph shows a starkly handsome Chinese man walking with a model's measured gait, and wearing a rag-tag but well co-ordinated overcoat on top of a leather jacket. His eyes peer into the middle distance, in what one fan described as "a deep and penetrating way", and he strides confidently forward.