Online

Facebook Is Killing Friendships And Causing Fist Fights

11:45AM Yesterday | Sam Biddle

We usually think of Facebook as a place to either keep in touch with real friends or cryogenically freeze old and artificial ones that wouldn’t otherwise exist. But a new Pew study says FB can actually end relationships, too. Naturally! More »


News

Two People Are Dead Because They Unfriended This Man’s Adult Daughter on Facebook

6:15PM February 9, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

A Tennessee man, Marvin Potter (on the right), is in police custody tonight, charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of a couple who had unfriended his 30-year-old daughter on the popular social networking site. More »


Software

Path Corrects Its Big Mistake [Updated]

12:30PM February 9, 2012 | Mat Honan

Facebook is a privacy disaster. Nobody with an iota of sense really trusts it to respect their privacy. Which is precisely one of Path’s big selling points: It’s got better privacy. Or so it seemed. But then it surprised everyone. Updated. More »


Entertainment

7th Grade Idiots On Facebook: The Play

1:00PM February 8, 2012 | Sam Biddle

Theatre has entertained man since the days of marble columns and poisoned philosophers. But what if the art were inspired not by medieval betrayal or star-crossed lovers, but by annoying middle school kids? Behold: Facebook tweens, a dramatic reenactment. More »


Software

Path Uploads Your Address Book To Its Servers Without Your Explicit Permission

11:30AM February 8, 2012 | Roberto Baldwin

While searching for a way to create an OS X app for Path’s social network, hacker Arun Thampi stumbled on to something that could raise privacy issues with the app. More »


Online

Facebook’s New Photo Viewer Is The Best Ever

8:45AM February 8, 2012 | Sam Biddle

Facebook is the place we look at photos online. And for years, those photos have been constrained to tiny boxes and ugly, low-resolution uploads. No more! Facebook’s new picture browser is here: your life is now giant and pretty. More »


Online

How To Hack Your Facebook Profile Photo With Timeline

2:15PM February 7, 2012 | Casey Chan

We love Timeline for Facebook. Maybe you don’t. Doesn’t really matter since Facebook is forcing everyone to switch. So what to do? We say have some fun with it! More »


Online

Brazil Is Suing Twitter For Tweeting DUI Checkpoints

12:15PM February 7, 2012 | Casey Chan

Twitter has caught some flack in other countries for giving accounts free reign on what they can tweet. Twitter responded that it’ll adjust its policy to include the ability to censor tweets if a country demands it to. We just might see Twitter’s first high profile case sooner than later because Brazil just sued Twitter for allowing accounts to tweet where DUI checkpoints are. More »


Online

Your Deleted Facebook Photos Still Aren’t Really Deleted

8:30AM February 7, 2012 | Adrian Covert

Three years ago, Ars Technica discovered that when you “deleted” your photos, they were still kept on Facebook’s servers, and anyone with a static URL could still access it. Three years later, Ars Technica revisited the matter and found little has changed. But Facebook says that things will be different… eventually. More »


Science

Social Media More Addictive Than Alcohol, Cigarettes

8:00PM February 6, 2012 | Jamie Condliffe

If, like mine, your partner thinks you have a problem because you check social media and email too often, it turns out they might be right. A new study suggests that checking our phones and computers is more addictive than alcohol and cigarettes. More »