High school students from Fairfax County, Va., are using social media and other methods to help discourage their peers from driving while distracted by cell phones.
Facebook and Twitter are the big boys in the social networking space. This breakdown was put together by Digital Surgeons and shows demographic statistics (and a few fun…
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg started a visit to China on Monday with a tour of the offices of the country's top search engine, while his own…
It's been a good year for Twitter, and not merely because the company announced yesterday it has secured another huge round of funding, reports ReadWriteWeb.
Teachers seeking online communication and collaboration opportunities with students and other educators have another free resource at their disposal: Edmodo, an education-based social networking site.
Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, likes to say that his web site brings people together, helping to make the world a better place. But…
Seems like just about everyone's tweeting these days, but a new survey finds that for now, only 8 percent of adults in the U.S. are using Twitter, reports…
Twitter use might be more than an extracurricular activity for college students, according to researchers from three universities whose work suggests that using the popular microblogging service to…
Today, users can start connecting with all their favorite social causes in one online sphere, as Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has launched his much-buzzed-about social network, Jumo, reports…
Describing itself as "part online bookstore, part social network," and "the world's first truly social eReading platform," Copia has launched a platform designed to bring together book-buying, reading…
High school seniors trawling the internet for college scholarship programs might want to bone up on their tweeting skills: Louisville, Ky.-based KFC is offering a $20,000 scholarship for…
Facebook's new online messaging service makes users of the social networking site more vulnerable to identity theft by cybercriminals, computer security firm Sophos warned Thursday.
For college students prone to posting 2 a.m. Facebook status updates detailing the party they just stumbled from, there’s a new web application that might save them from…
Facebook is betting that one day soon, we'll all be acting like high school students, reports the Associated Press: more texting and instant-messaging, at the expense of eMail.
A Connecticut woman who was fired after she posted disparaging remarks about her boss on Facebook has prompted a first-of-its-kind legal case by federal authorities who say her…
Much of the Internet buzz surrounding today's midterm elections in the U.S. revolves around voter participation and how social media may or may not impact turnout, reports ReadWriteWeb.
On Facebook's Developers blog, the world's largest social networking company declared "zero tolerance" for data brokers, after a recent Wall St. Journal investigation revealed that some Facebook application…
MySpace has been sharing with its advertisers data that can be used to identify user profile pages, but the company doesn't consider that to be a problem, reports…
Campus technology officials in charge of social media efforts have come to a consensus: There are no social media experts, so keep experimenting with your school’s tweeting, linking,…