While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the media rounds to talk up the site's one billionth user, he ended up spending a lot of time defending the future of the site.
Just as Facebook announced its 1 billionth monthly active user, the social network released its first major commercial, in which the company tries to show how human the Internet activity that involves no face-to-face interaction really is.
We're sick of people telling us the right and wrong way to use Twitter, and that includes this missive by Slate's Farhad Manjoo reiterating his call for a longer character limits.
Guys, we don't need special apps for couples. Couples and singletons can coexist on the same social networks as long as we all live by a few ground rules.
After making a public announcement a couple weeks ago about its spam problem, Pinterest has only seen more money-making schemes develop around its potentially lucrative set-up.
Discovered: Not all kids are obsessed with technology, an anti-aging gene?, Aspirin might be good for preventing lung cancer, and get ready for an avocado-oil health food craze.
Pinterest really has arrived: A survey from Experian Hitwise on Friday put the site at third on the list of most popular social networks, behind only Facebook and Twitter.
Adding to the dichotomy between the one and 99 percent, we learn that the country's very rich don't use social media like the rest of us.
All the things that have drawn women to Pinterest, the social network of the moment, make the site a more appealing social network in general.
Spinning Hat has created sort-of-clever-sort-of-horrible shower curtain design that resembles a Facebook profile, complete with a hole where the profile picture goes so you can smile out at all those people sharing the bathroom with you while you shower.
Life in America has gotten lonelier over the past 25 years, if a new study is to be believed.
You may think that the web has evolved at breakneck speeds over the past decade and a half, but Jared Newman over at Technologizer has a first-hand document showing that the early Internet wasn't all that different from now.
For as long as the internet has been around, companies have been trying (and failing) to get people to behave online, but a new social networking site called Nextdoor isn't discouraged.
Organization's a problem, so a bunch of programmers made their own version of Facebook to solve it
The Facebook rival shot up like a rocket on launch; it's coming down the same way
Traffic is up 1269 percent for Google's social network
Bodies found tortured with a warning against "funny things on the internet"
The latest of many explanations is that teens do drugs because of Facebook
There are a lot of new options, we're here to help you through
He's best able to play the sane candidate by making corny jokes on the Internet
Competition from Facebook and Twitter has put pressure on the photo-sharing site
Our private Internet lives are pretty public and it's getting minors in trouble
Search and email are still the most popular online activities
Twitter defenders point the finger at BlackBerry Messenger for aiding mayhem
Randi Zuckeberg says she's off to "follow my dreams"
Are teachers not to be trusted?
The twins are not getting any more money out of Mark Zuckerberg
A leaked site shows Microsoft is working on some sort of new Internet project
The social network added new privacy setting so users no longer have to declare their gender
The social media site's growth presents a real threat to its main competitor
But its methodology is pretty iffy
Finally, a place for all your important Prius-related conversations
David Plouffe monitors tweets for what lines penetrate
The social networking behemoth now delivers one of every three online ads
Rolling back the interface to "old Twitter" is seen as a feature, not a bug
The 74-time Jeopardy! champion says you can ask him anything
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