Bring Facebook Back to College

If Facebook was a bar, it would be the college bar on the corner. You know, the one that doesn’t card and will let you in if you just tell them you’re in some accredited classes online. It is the kind of bar the is prone to fights and gets too rowdy, but most of [...]

Friday App Review: PlayUp, Now On Android

If you’re one of those people who enjoy being connected while watching the game, then PlayUp may be for you. This social sports network has it all when it comes to making sure you’re plugged into your favorite sport with friends and fans. The Experience I was able to connect both my Twitter and Facebook [...]

3 Ways Social Media Saved Sports, and Fans

Even though we now live in a world where  you can lose your job to one wrong tweet, pin, or Facebook posting, it’s good to know Social Media has made being sports exciting. Here are 3 reasons how that’s possible: Watching sports has never been this cool. You can share your thoughts with the entire [...]

Twitter Takes on the Spammers in New Lawsuit

It’s happened to all of us. We get the ‘ding’ notification that we’ve been mentioned on Twitter. Whether out of excitement or just sheer curiosity, you quickly push the proper buttons to find out what nugget of wisdom you’ve tweeted caught someone’s eye.  Disappointment and annoyance quickly abound when you realize that you’ve been spammed [...]

Requiring Employees to Provide Social Networking Passwords: Invasion of Privacy?

When filling out a job application, you can expect to provide your future employer with personal information such as your address. What you would not expect, however, is to be required to hand over your house keys for a home inspection. Such is what is happening virtually to a growing number of job applicants in [...]

Alec Baldwin Defends Fiance in Twitter Attack

Never one to keep quiet, Alec Baldwin is at it again, lighting up the Twitterverse with his boisterous opinions and blunt observations. This time, his focus is on one former Philadelphia Daily News reporter in particular. On Monday, Baldwin, in apparent defense of his new fiancé’ Hilaria Thomas, tweeted, “Shame on the no-talent trash from [...]

What Facebook Timeline Means for Users and Businesses

People have been focusing more on FaceBook business pages since FaceBook came out with Timeline features for businesses in February. It has strongly and sharply increased customer engagement with businesses. They are interacting more strongly with the business pages since the new Timeline feature rolled out. Timeline has a very visual nature, and customers are [...]

The Twitterverse Provides a Happily Ever After for One UK Couple

A woman’s wedding day is often dubbed the most memorable day of her life.  So, what happens when six weeks from the big day she finds out her chosen venue has shut down and taken her $7,000 deposit with it? If you are Lauren Lane of the UK, you take to twitter. Lauren Lane and [...]

Changes to Pinterest Terms of Use Policy Addresses Copyright Infringement

Look out, Super –Pinners.  Your favorite social networking site is about to make some changes that might affect what you decide to pin up on your boards. Pinterest rose to social media stardom quickly reaching ten million monthly unique visitors faster than any other website, according to USA Today.  Recently, however, some eyebrows have been [...]

Woman Sues Facebook For Using Her Picture In Ads

Ever see your friend’s picture in a Facebook ad? Most people don’t think much about it. Some people complain it’s a violation of privacy. A woman in Canada took it a step further and is suing Facebook for profiting from an advertisement last year that used her photo and profile information with out her knowledge. [...]

Facebook Changes Causing Headaches For Businesses

Whether you like it or not, Facebook is making businesses and brands switch over their pages to their new timeline. For most organizations the change has been going smoothly, but that doesn’t mean that the latest Facebook isn’t causing some problems and raising some concerns. Since Facebook launched the News Feed feature in 2006, the [...]

Kony 2012: Proof That Young Adults Get Their News From Social Media

Not too long ago, there was a time when most adults got their news from the morning newspaper and the evening network news. Now, those are just two of the choices. Not only are their hundreds of television news sources and thousands of online news publishers, but new research says that younger adults are getting [...]

Brooklyn High School to Students: Delete Facebook Accounts, or Else

An all-girls Orthodox Jewish High School is making headlines this week after issuing a mandate for all 11th grade girls to delete their Facebook accounts or face expulsion. The issue is modesty. Or, more specifically, the girls’ lack thereof. Authorities at the Beis Rivkah High School in Brooklyn, NY, say they are trying to restore [...]

School Bans Students From Graduation For Bikini Photos On Facebook

If you thought high schools in the United States were oppressive, a Catholic school in the Philippines tried to ban five female students from attending graduation because there were photos of them on Facebook wearing bikinis. Today a Philippine court over turned that ban and issued a restraining order against the girls’ school St. Theresa’s [...]

Kuwaiti Man Arrested For His Tweets

You need to watch what you say on Twitter and other social media outlets. All this week, people have been getting into hot water for what they’ve tweeted and shared. You don’t have to a celebrity either like Justin Bieber or Spike Lee either. Tuesday, Kuwaiti authorities arrested a man for insulting the Prophet Mohammad [...]