A new research has revealed that Facebook users are still falling for age-old tricks employed by scammers. The research also claims that even well-educated folks are falling for such scams because of…
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North Korea bans foreigners’ access to social networking websites
North Korea has reportedly banned use of social networking websites including Facebook and Twitter by Diplomats and other foreign visitors. According to reports the North Korean government has imposed a ban on…
Facebook full of lonely folks finds study
Contrary to belief that Facebook makes people feel isolated, a new study has claimed that the feeling of loneliness is bringing more and more people to Facebook in search of friends. Researchers…
Access to social media websites makes people feel jealous of others, new survey claims
62 per cent of Facebook and Twitter users in an interview admitted they felt their own achievements were inadequate as compared to others’ posts
Facebook now provides 70 gender options to choose from in the UK
The social network recently introduced over 20 new gender options in the UK in a bid ‘to reflect society’.
Pinterest rolls out ‘Guided Search’ for the web
Pinterest: The guides are there to get you where you want to go!!
Two former Apple executives heading to Pinterest
Pinboard social networking site is looking to beef up its engineering and product design departments, by hiring longtime Apple veterans!
Facebook is trying to refine news feeds
Keeping with the promise it made last summer, Facebook is gearing up with new ways to filter out spammy posts from the users’ news feeds. By spammy posts, Facebook means the posts…
Stanford scientists develop tool that predicts virality of photos on Facebook
A recent report claims that a group of Stanford computer researchers have developed an algorithm which can predict if a photo will go ‘viral’ on Facebook. Stanford researchers said that the rate…
Google+ adds page view counts to user profile page
Google today announced that it is adding an interesting update to Google+ in order to boost the social network’s popularity. As part of the update, the new ‘total content views’ feature will…
China blames VPN, other internet censorship technologies for terrorism in the country
A Chinese official, Zhang Chunxian, has claimed that virtual private network (VPN) and other such internet censorship technologies are responsible for fueling violence and terrorism in the country suggesting that China may…
Facebook Messenger to land on Windows Phone within ‘weeks’
Windows Phone, the third largest mobile operating platform in the world, didn’t have a dedicated Facebook Messenger app, but that is about to change as Microsoft has revealed during a press conference…
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s 10th birthday: ‘We just cared more’
The ten year old journey, which started with founding of Facebook on February 4, 2004, has been ‘extremely amazing’, said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of the world’s biggest social network….
Kaspersky backpedals on Facebook SMS claims
Kaspersky is backpedaled on its earlier statements wherein it claimed that Facebook was intentionally reading users’ SMS and other confidential information. In an emailed statement to various media outlets, Kaspersky denied being…
Kaspersky: Facebook is after your SMS, other confidential information
Facebook for Android requests permissions that are overly intrusive and in case of one particular such permission the social networking giant fails to provide a reason.