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It turns out that the majority of users are misusing Facebook’s photograph reporting tool, and they’re flagging up pictures as being offensive for a rather different reason than Facebook intended – because they just don’t like the way they look.

If your new year’s resolution is to make sure you don’t start 2013 as a divorcee, then you might want to consider a quick cull of your Facebook friends list. And you might want to start by ditching any ex-partners…

If you’re protesting against corrupt governments in your country, the chances are that you’re using Twitter. That’s one of the findings from a new survey on digital communications.

Despite continued barbs from naysayers, Google aren’t going to give up on Google+ any time soon. And announced upgrades to the social network could give us an idea of what’s in store for the new year.

Amazing news has broken, that is in no way connected to the FirstFound Christmas Party on Friday night. It turns out that a staggering 76% of photographs added to Facebook by Britons contain at least one person under the influence of alcohol.

Screaming children. Really tall blokes folding themselves into your personal space. The most boring conversationalist in the world and his travelling stamp collection. The perils of air travel are many and varied, but they all seem to be down to the strangers you end up sitting next to.

If you’re worried about what your friends are posting on Facebook, help is now at hand in the form of online suicide counselling for users, just in time for Christmas. Following on from the high profile suicide of an American university student in September 2010, and a number of suicide note status updates, Facebook have [...]

Well, there’s now no doubt that retrospective season is in full swing. First Bing, then Twitter and now Facebook have all released their 2011 trends. But while yesterday’s Twitter trends focused on political movements and celebrity anecdotes, Facebook’s data paints a far shallower picture of what life is like on the social networks… The UK’s [...]

Annual trends season is in full swing. Following on from Bing’s top searches list, Twitter have released their list of the most popular hashtags of 2011.

While Facebook is a great tool for attracting clients and keeping up with friends, it’s also the world’s largest collection of personal data. Thanks to the social network’s property, Facebook are now a private company with details of the location, sexuality, political leanings and preferred breakfast of hundreds of millions of people.


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