Michael Bloomberg has never been shy about admitting his utter disdain for social networking. Given the opportunity to comment about Twitter or Facebook, Bloomberg will trash it as much as possible. Here’s the latest example, captured by Capital New York:

Number one, I don’t understand why people don’t understand that anything you write, anything you send out, is gonna be retweeted, re-Facebooked, re-this, re-that. You should write down, number one, only things you believe, and number two, then think about how it would look if somebody else sees it. There are just a lot of young kids who are doing things on their Twitter account, their Facebook account, that later on is gonna come back and bite them.

Re-Facebooked! Oh man, we love it.

The irony here, of course, is that this is all coming from Bloomberg, who — despite staying away from the evils of social networking — has said plenty of stupid things.

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 About 83.4 percent of the time, The New Yorker’s cartoons aren’t funny. Yet despite that, it’s difficult to find something wrong with them, because they’re odd and vaguely interesting. Facebook, however, has little trouble picking something upsetting about New Yorker cartoons: Nipples. The New Yorker’s cartoon page on Facebook was temporarily banned from the site because a cartoon featuring tiny nipples on a woman’s body violated Facebook’s community standards.

As The New Yorker notes, it wasn’t the man’s nipples that got it banned; male nipples, according to Facebook, are fine. Something called “female nipple bulges” and female nipples, are not.

Please take this into consideration the next time you’re posting pictures from a party. If The New Yorker can get banned for cartoon nipples, anything can happen.

[Image via Mick Stevens/The New Yorker]

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When readers are skimming through a site on their browsers or Twitter feeds, the headline is the only thing that tells them whether a piece is worth their time. So, when tackling headlines for the Web, remember that clarity trumps cleverness (unless you’re writing for the front page of The New York Post).

“Headline writing for the Web isn’t headline writing for magazines — this is the land of the literal,” said Sara Wilson, a senior editor for The Huffington Post.

But that doesn’t mean a headline can’t also be engaging. “You want a strong ‘clicky’ headline that entices readers: a burning question, a big secret, a thing-you-need-to-click-on-this-headline-to-find-out,” she said. “But it should accurately reflect the ideas in the piece, or the readers will be annoyed.”

For eight more tactics on getting your article the buzz it deserves, read 9 Ways to Get More Comments, Tweets and Likes for Your Story.

The New York Times is feeling awfully nostalgic lately. On Monday it launched a Tumblr for its huge archive of ancient photographs, and today it has updated its Facebook page to include information all the way back to September 18, 1851, when the paper debuted. Known back then as The New-York Daily Times., it was available for one cent.

A few other highlights from the Times’ page:

• The first Sunday edition was published on April 21, 1861, because of the public’s desire for more news about the Civil War and an ongoing exposé that revealed the ponys used in the Pony Express were actually horses
• The hyphen was dropped from the paper’s name in 1896
• The price of a weekday Times skyrockets to two cents in 1918, sparking riots in all 27 streets across the nation
• In 1942, the first crossword puzzles began appearing. This is also the beginning of the now widely accepted practice of cursing at a newspaper
• The Times unveils its website in 1996 and doesn’t charge anyone for access, an error it still regrets so please subscribe dammit

Anonymous, the online hacking group, has inundated several of The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook pages with comments that protest the way it was portrayed in an article published on February 21. The article, “Alert of Hacker Power Play,” details the growing concern among government officials that Anonymous will use its hacking skills to bring about a power outage.

The hacking group didn’t like that, and asked members to post a specific comment on every Journal Facebook page that they could. The attack — which has now ended — started in Germany, but eventually spread stateside. If you check out the Journal’s main Facebook page, you’ll see plenty of this comment:

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Bill Keller — for as much as he laments sites like Twitter — is quite the social networking diva (divo?). When he tweets it creates a stir and when his columns create a ruckus, he responds to readers quite often. So it seems only natural that Keller would take to Facebook to post his recent pieces and the subsequent exchanges with readers.

Among other things, on his page now there is a link to an especially intense debate that happened after Keller wrote that journalists should ask politicians about religion more often.

Here’s the link to his Facebook page if you’d like to keep up with Keller, or just read the angry letters that people write to him.

Gwyneth Paltrow has interviewed Jay-Z, written a cookbook, starred in movies, launched a newsletter, sang country songs and graced the cover of Bon Appétit. Obviously feeling unsatisified with how much Paltrow is in our world, today she joined Twitter and Facebook.

Her first tweet is a link to a video of herself looking for a cab because that is something we should all know about. Her first update on Facebook? It’s a link to the exact same video. Apparently Paltrow is already quite the whiz with social networking.

If you’ve ever caught yourself thinking “I wish I had more Paltrow in my life” or “Why am I sad all the time?” you might want to “like” her Facebook page or follow her on Twitter. But don’t expect her to follow you back. After all she is Gwyneth Paltrow, and you are you.

See that little Facebook “like” button at the bottom of this post? That tool, at least according to Facebook, helps increase traffic to media sites by 300 percent. Facebook integration helps keep people glued to websites too: Visitors using the Facebook tools stay on websites for an average of eight minutes longer than those who don’t use those tools.

And that’s just the beginning. Search Engine Land reports that Facebook helps media sites in a big way, increasing readers wherever that little thumbs-up tool appears. Some other stats:

• People who sign in with Facebook at The Huffington Post view 22% more pages and spend 8 minutes longer than the average reader
• ABCNews.com, Washington Post and The Huffington Post are said to have more than doubled their referral traffic from Facebook since adding social plugins

Again, Search Engine Land was provided these stats by Facebook, so who knows how accurate they are. But they’ve got to be close, right? It’s not like Facebook has ever done anything that would make us not trust the company, right? Right.

Now go ahead. Click that like button.