Eating something? Drinking something? Watching something? Facebook wants you to tell your friends about it by way of a new emoticon feature available ...
Facebook has become quite the breeding ground for apps aimed at culling friend lists and turning them into something more like romantic hit lists. Now...
Don't make all of us bear witness to your hyper-focused interest on something that, try as we might, we just don't care about. Don't make all of us bear witness to your hyper-focused interest on something that, try as we might, we just don't care about.
Through a revealing and energetic discussion with my college honors students, the following narcissistic personas emerged: The Brand Addict, the "to the person who" people, Dear "so-and-so" Who Will Neve Answer...
I can empathize with the exhaustion of the wedding circuit, schlepping gifts of blenders and karaoke machines hither, thither and yon. But I dont' understand the need among some singles to be cheered on in their singledom like newlyweds dashing toward a shaving cream-streaked car.
My mom thinks Facebook is a harbinger of the end of society, if not the actual cause itself. She called me last night and said, "Are you on that... Oh, I don't even want to know," like she was about to ask about Grindr. No, she was talking about Facebook.
I do read your comments and status updates, and although you think that because you have a gay friend, it's OK to write things like, "I just watched Glee, does that make me super gay?" it's not OK.
Aren't all members of Facebook, in some respect, lurkers and voyeurs? Yes, but certain people are less noble about it than others. I'd like to call those people out.
As with anything, you should think carefully before you post the good news that you're expecting. Do you really want to share this with the world? Is there anyone -- perhaps an employer or a family member -- who you're not quite yet ready to tell?
The Pew Internet and American Life Project's recent release of data reveals information all about the way in which users’ interact and function on F...
The fatal flaw in my Facebook rebellion was found where it is always can be found: the students. Turns out, my aversion to using Facebook professionally didn't stop students from going there. In droves.
The posts on the new website We Know What You're Doing read like a list of exactly the things most people would never want strangers to know they're d...
Technology will set you free to express the real you -- until you realize that reality places you in the inbox on your smartphone just like everyone else. No worries, its outsmarted most of us.
Facebook is addictive. You feel inclined to read, stalk and share. Only in this forum would stalking be the more acceptable practice of the three. In this case, it's the sharing that's the problem.
In an ideal world, Facebook wouldn't really matter much for most people. Communication would be direct, and you would have to do more than just stalk someone's information page to know his or her life story. But this isn't the case in today's world.
Although Facebook has dramatically changed the rules of social interactions, there are some things that are still not allowed. This includes writing ...
17-year-old Danny Manes from Pueblo, Colorado noticed something troubling while he was scrolling through the usual photos, links, status updates, and ...
In the whirlwind of acceptances, rejections, and deferrals, one outlet becomes the center of most seniors’ attention. Social media has become the ho...
What if I said that I think folks may want to think twice before deleting, untagging or "sending to trash" those unfortunate images of their wild youth? Well, that's exactly what I'm saying.
Users may love Twitter for its brevity, but now Facebook is taking the opposite approach by increasing the character limit on status updates to a whop...