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We're following a number of stories. joe johns joins us with the 360 bulletin. joe? >> a texas teacher accused of beating a student. the teacher has been fired and could face criminal charges. the boy's family filed a lawsuit against the teacher and the school. a school spokesman said the teacher's actions violate the school's principles and quote, we would never tolerate anything like that on the part of a teacher. a fugitive captured in cancun, mexico thanks to help from his facebook page. pled guilty to fraud charges in seattle. he fled last year, investigators could not find him until he...

Could face criminal charges. the boy's family filed a lawsuit against the teacher and the school. a school spokesman said the teacher's actions violate the school's principles and quote, we would never tolerate anything like that on the part of a teacher. a fugitive captured in cancun, mexico thanks to help from his facebook page. pled guilty to fraud charges in seattle. he fled last year, investigators could not find him until he started posting status updates on facebook, saying how much fun he was having living in paradise. yeah, right. and say good-bye to annie, after 85 years, tribune...

Sixth birthday which it celebrated last week, google introduced its own social networking feature called google buzz. the difference, gmail users, those people who use google's e-mail system, will be able to see status updates and share media, pictures, links, websites with friends right from their mailbox. my question is, did we really need another social networking site? impea a big fan, i'm an early adopter, rachel. you know i like it, you use it more than i do. was there a need for this? is this part of google's sort of efforts to take over the world? what do you make of it? >> i think it ...

Google buzz. gmail users will be able to see status updates and share media, pictures, links, websites with friends right from their mail box. did we really need another social networking site? i'm a big fan. you know i like it. you use it more than i do. was there a need for this or is this part of google's efforts to take over the world? >> i think it's a little bit of both. it's early to know whether this is just another thing we don't need or the thing we didn't know we needed. at first i found it annoying and wondered what the use what, but i started finding it useful. there's a lot of sh...

>> whether it's friending someone or kind of that voyeuristic checking out people's status updates, profiles, reconnecting with old friends. josh levs is on the lookout. saying millions cannot last a single day without logging on. >> it's amazing how fast the world of technology moves and how quickly it changes people's lives in this era. and this is a good example of it. facebook has now turned 6 years old. and i'm going to show you some numbers from it i find pretty astounding. this one might not shock you. but the total facebook population, the number of active users around the world now mo...