In times when people around the world want to talk about superficial happenings than instigate intelligent discussion, Gawker is king. The website, billed as a gossip website for Manhattan’s elite, relies on salacious stories to draw in readers.

As the popularity of Facebook transcends MySpace, issues of personal information security have arisen, transforming fun ap­plications into risky ventures. “There’s a different type of prob­lem...