You Probably Don’t Know All the Ways Facebook Tracks You
We’re all aware of the deal we make when we sign up with Facebook: we get somewhere to post vacation photos and stalk…
How to Make Your Social Media Accounts as Private as Possible
Maintaining social media accounts while staying as anonymous as possible isn’t easy—just ask the Director of the FBI—but…
How to Delete Your Online Existence, But Save All Your Data
Sick of Snapchat? Tired of Twitter? Fed up with Facebook? This is a great time to completely eradicate yourself from…
5 Reasons to Use Facebook Messenger for Web Browsers
Last year, Facebook set up a dedicated web portal for Messenger to match its app for mobile devices. If you haven’t yet…
11 Twitter Hacks to Supercharge Your Tweeting Powers
Twitter may not be having the best of years so far, but it still runs circles around its rivals in so many ways. One of…
Stop Apps From Posting to Facebook On Your Behalf
You no doubt log into a bunch of apps and sites using your Facebook credentials, but you don’t have to disconnect these…
Tons of People Can't Tweet Because Twitter Thinks We're All Robots [It's Fixed!]
Something at Twitter has gone horribly, hilariously wrong: The social media site has unceremoniously declared us all…
Twitter Takes Another Teeny Tiny Step Toward Becoming Facebook
Twitter tweaked its website design today to move the status bar where you compose a tweet a couple short inches from…
Gmail No Longer Forces New Users to Make a Google+ Account
Google's free email service is great—tons of people use it. Google+ isn't nearly as popular, even though new Gmail…
Russia Responds To Canada's Sarcastic Geography Lesson
Russia has fired back at Canada's NATO delegation in response to a snarky Ukraine tweet that went viral earlier this…
Researchers predict Facebook will die out "like a disease"
By drawing similarities between Facebook's rapid adoption and the proliferation of an infectious disease, researchers…
WSJ: Instagram Will Have Ads Within a Year
While Instagram has just announced that it has reached 150 million active users, it's also revealed that it has plans…
80,000 Suckers Fired Off Tweets Celebrating LinkedIn Spam
Last week, on February 11th, Alexandra Watson (aka @happinesscoach) received a very exciting email in her inbox and…
The Single Dumbest Way People Are Using Vine
So Vine is out, and its "Instagram for Video" schtick is novel, but it's going to take a while for people to get the…
Court Says You Can't Ban Sex Offenders From Social Networks
The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that an Indiana law, which bans sex offenders from using social…
What Do You Think of People Without Facebook Accounts?
Social networking is great and all, but you can't really fault anyone for not buying into it. Unless, of course,…
Iran's Developing "Intelligent Software" For Censoring Social Networks
Iran isn't exactly a huge fan of the Internet. That's why it attempted to cut off Google services for all its citizens,…
Flickr is Going Free for Three Months to Entice Instagram Deserters
Marissa Mayer and the folks at Yahoo! have a nice little gift for you this holiday season: free Pro Flickr for three…
Zuckerberg Predicts We'll All Be Sharing 1,000 Times as Much Crap 10 Years From Now
If you thought people were already sharing way too much on social networks, you're in for a rough future. At least, tha…
Can a Flashy New Redesign Make Myspace Cool Again?
Myspace, that ancient social networking dinosaur, is back with a new coat of paint. And get ready for this: it looks…