Access to the official website of the popular Internet messaging service Twitter were temporarily blocked by hackers early Friday morning, redirecting online traffic into the website of a group calling itself “The Iranian Cyber Army.”
Millions of Twitter users found it difficult to log-in into the website on Friday as they continuously being redirected to a [...]
World’s biggest social networking website Facebook will release the newlayout design for its Groups feature, which is aimed to make communication and activities sharing among friends easier and more presentable.
In its previous design, Groups in Facebook can only see updates about their network on a particular member site they joined in. But with the new [...]
The Florida Board of Bar Examiners on Friday said that it will be performing background checks on attorneys who wish to practice their profession in the state by checking on their social networking accounts in Facebook and MySpace, saying that postings in these platforms is a reflection of the character and fitness of the [...]
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg on Monday bared plans to expand the company workforce by as much as 50 percent by the end of the year following massive surplus of workers, especially engineers, following long months of recession.
Zuckerberg, who is only 25 years old, said that it will be a great help for [...]
A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) cyber squad special agent on Tuesday enumerated a number of negative things that people might get from using social networking sites, saying that having an account can put one’s self at risk.
Despite having hundreds of millions of online users, worldwide… social networking websites like MySpace, Twitter, and Facebook may [...]
Popular social networking platform Facebook has recently upgraded its privacy setting following complaints from users regarding its limited control options. The new setting options will make it easier for online users to customize content.
Facebook has modified its user control on privacy settings to make it easier for users tom customize content of messages that they [...]
Facebook officials said the largest online social networking website is in no urgent need for other capital sponsorship, although expressing hopes that the company will eventually make its initial public offering in the near future.
In his speech during the Reuters Global Technology Summit, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the social networking platform [...]
Companies in the US expressed concern over the large number of employees sharing “too much” personal information on their social networking accounts, which may put company infrastructures under malicious risks, a study showed.
A survey conducted by Sophos Research showed that 63 percent of companies’ management and system administrators are deeply concerned over the growing number [...]
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced it will implement stricter rules in social media advertisements and commercials to make sure consumers will not be victimized by misleading statements from advertisers.
According to FTC, advertisers and businesses will be held liable for making misleading and false statements which are published from any social networking site [...]
There is a newly launched social networking site called Never Nude Land which targets people who have a condition called Nevernudism, where they believe that clothing is an integral part of themselves—meaning, they should not allow anyone to see them naked, not even their spouses.
While this rare condition has not yet received attention from the [...]
