Create personal profiles. Build networks of friends. Share photos, videos and music. That might sound like Facebook but tech-savvy young people have instead turned to a wave of smartphone-based apps.
Research released yesterday shows patterns from the Facebook preferences can provide surprisingly accurate estimates of the user's race, age, IQ, sexuality and other personal information.
Facebook Inc said on Friday hackers had infiltrated some of its employees' laptops in recent weeks, making the world's No.1 social network the latest victim of a wave of cyber attacks
Witnessing friends' vacations, love lives and work successes on Facebook can cause envy and trigger feelings of misery and loneliness, according to German researchers.
Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service, has retreated from some but not all of the controversial changes in its terms of service that prompted a fierce backlash from users
The ANC has caused a stir on social media networking site Twitter. The ruling party, holding its 53rd National conference in Mangaung, brought Twitter to its knees after the ANC delegation announced
A social media feud between Twitter and Instagram has escalated as the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service made it impossible for Internet users to integrate images from tweets.
As the US presidential election neared a nail-biting close yesterday, both candidates took to Twitter, Facebook and Reddit to make a final plea for votes, capping a huge social media push to the polls
A study arousing interest online, yesterday found that checking Facebook or Twitter is more alluring than sex for those immersed in Internet Age lifestyles
Social media company Facebook Inc says it reached the 1 billion active monthly users threshold last month, and is up more than 50 million users since June.
