Facebook is growing up -- or aging. But parts of the site remain forever 15.

My recent New York Times Magazine article, "The Trolls Among Us," discusses the escalating phenomenon of Internet trolling -- users who intentionally antagonize other users and disrupt online communities. It also discusses Postel's Law, also known as the Robustness Principle, which reads: "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."

Summer is coming to an end, and soon the halls of the university will be packed with incoming students. Normally I greet them with a mixture of rapture and horror. Rapture, because I never fail to be in awe of the passions of youth and how ferociously they can believe in principles larger than themselves; horror, because their taste in music is nowhere near as avant-garde as they think, and the ignorance, how it burns...!

When Dan Walsh came out with a Web comic called "Garfield Minus Garfield," it seemed like only a matter of time before the lawyers' letters started flying.

The next time (or the first) you get a traffic citation in the mail for blowing through a red light, you can thank (or curse) the Internet.

First, a clarification. Recently there's been news from Black Hat about a security researcher named Robert Hansen discussing exploits in Google Gadgets, among other things. As you may have discerned from my byline, I'm also Robert Hansen, and I spoke at Black Hat in 2005 on SQL injection. We are not related (that I know of). It's just a coincidence that there are two Robert Hansens who have now spoken at Black Hat. There may be more, so stay tuned.

If you think that Facebook or email password of yours is safe in the hands of your friends, families, significant others, hermit crabs, etc. -- a recent poll on Internet Evolution suggests you may be naive.

The Web is riddled with plenty of ways to spend the precious remaining hours of our lives clicking ourselves into states of deep delirium.