So how do you explain social media to someone who doesn’t use Facebook and thinks the word “Twitter” is just sexual innuendo? If you find yourself having to explain the various services to people often, here’s something that might make life a little easier — an Instagram pic that breaks it all down using the

Mark Zuckerberg is joining the $1 a year salary club. Following Facebook’s $5 billion IPO filing, it was revealed in the Facebook S1 the CEO would drop his salary starting January 1, 2013. Compare that with the $1.5 million he made last year – which included salary, bonus and other compensations – and Zuck’s paycheck is

  We all knew it was coming, but now it’s official: Facebook has filed for a $5 billion IPO (initial public offering) of publicly traded stock. Facebook has officially filed its paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to take itself public with a stock offering.  The IPO is looking to raise $5 billion, the

What would you do with yourself if you disconnected from tech communication for three months? I’m not just talking about Facebook (though that’s a biggie) — I mean going totally off the online grid, with no email, no texting, no Google Plus or Twitter or even Spotify, or any other form of sharing or messaging. And

In an attempt to parody the world of tacky infomercial videos, Twitter has taken it up a few hundred notches with an effort of its own, resulting in three minutes of hilarity. The video itself is so intentionally banal in nature – terrible visual effects, hokey acting, cheesy dialogue, DIY production quality, awful slogans and corny music

With over 800 million worldwide users, Facebook is finally going to offer the public a slice of the company. The social network will reportedly file documents for its IPO as early as next Wednesday, with a current valuation of $75-100 billion, a Wall Street Journal source said. As far as Web investments go, Facebook’s IPO

Twitter has announced that it now has the ability to censor messages on its network on a country by country basis. In a post on the official company blog, Twitter has announced that it now has the ability to censor tweets – the name for the messages sent on the microblogging service – on a

Social Media is quickly changing how we communicate with the world around us. Relationships (and consequently breakups) are now announced on Facebook, Twitter allows us to read and report breaking news events, and sites like LinkedIn can let you know how you’re connected to the hiring manager at a job before you even apply. There’s

Facebook’s new Timeline feature is now open to everyone. The service is rolling out worldwide starting today, arriving for everyone across the globe within the next few weeks. Once you get Timeline, it’s important to note that you have just 7 days to tweak what shows up on it before it’s published on your page.

The White House has gotten a little more social, creating its own Google+ page. The page will host “news from the blog, behind the scenes photos and videos, plus chances to participate” on a regular basis, as well as take advantage of Google+’s Hangout feature, allowing you to tune in to a live stream discussion

Google may have been the top web brand in 2011, but things could wind up different if Facebook continues to steamroll the Internet. The two websites are embroiled in an ongoing war for web dominance, with Facebook posing serious problems for the search giant due to the social network walling off its content from Google’s

OnlineEducation.net created a infographic illustrating a recent study about college students and their social media habits, and the results are pretty interesting: Facebook use in itself isn’t a problem for them academically — in fact, practically all of them use it (at 92 percent). By that statistic, most college kids should be flunking out of

From Jon Rettinger, President of TechnoBuffalo LLC As many of you are aware, TechnoBuffalo’s Editor-at-Large Noah Kravitz is currently engaged in a legal dispute with his former employer PhoneDog Media (PhoneDog) regarding ownership of his Twitter account. PhoneDog is suing Noah based on their valuation of his Twitter followers at the time he stopped working

A download link for the official Facebook Messenger application for Windows, which the social network has reportedly been testing since November, was leaked online yesterday. Facebook has responded today by making the “trial” application officially available for download, and updating its support pages to include new information on the software. Facebook Messenger for Windows is

Social networks like Facebook make it easier than ever to get in touch with old friends, school classmates, and even the ones who got away. For some, the temptation to reach out to their old flame and rekindle a lost relationship is too much — and they don’t let a silly little thing like marriage

All of us handle who we’re friends with on Facebook a little differently. I’m super-particular about who I accept friend requests from on the service, and to date have only unfriended two people ever. I have friends; however, who accept friend requests from anyone and everyone who asks, some of whom they don’t know at

Facebook began rolling out its new Timeline feature to all users last week, and while it’s another change we must get used to, we think it’s a terrific improvement. Over the weekend, the social network also brought the feature to its iPhone app in an update that also claims to improve stability and performance. Version

Picking where you sit on a flight just got a little more interesting. Dutch airline KLM has a new plan called “Meet & Seat” which allows customers to pick who they’re seated next to on the plane using Facebook. More than just a seat selector, with the program you would see photos of potential row

The long awaited Timeline revamp for the Facebook profile has arrived, but for some odd reason the popular social networking site hasn’t exactly made it intuitive in how you turn it on. For those of you just dying to know and want to get to the nitty gritty, you need to head to http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline and after

If someone you know on Facebook posts a message hinting at suicide, now you have one more way to help. Facebook has teamed up with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline to allow users to report suicidal content on the site when you see someone who needs help. Currently reporting is done from a special “Report