Earlier this month, AOL joined the privacy bandwagon with the introduction of its SafeSocial service, a tool that grants parents access to key pieces of their kids’ online lives, from pictures and posts to Internet accounts and Facebook friends. Now AOL has revealed the technology behind the tool, announcing today it will partner with SocialShield, [...]

Television’s top humorists are always looking for new cultural elements to satirize, and two of the most popular subjects over the past year have been gadgets or social media — or both, as they’re increasingly intertwined.

If you flip through…

Are you addicted to Facebook? If you truly want to feed your addiction, you might want to subscribe to General Motors’ OnStar in-car communication service. If you’re trying to break it, maybe not. From this month, OnStar will be offering subscribers the chance to have their text messages and Facebook updates read to them while [...]

If you are a rich and famous singer-actress and your name is Cher, how would you go about meeting men? Well, the real-life Cher is apparently using Facebook, according to entertainment news site E Online. The story reports that Cher joined Facebook – in the sense of a personal profile rather than a fan page [...]

Did you know that the average age of a Facebook user is 38 years old? That information comes from the team at Flowtown, who has compiled the latest demographic statistics about Facebook users and social network usage in general. Perhaps more surprising was that the vast majority of users are now older than 38 years [...]

Facebook Places gets a little more “Foursquare-ized” today with the introduction of Context Optional’s Facebook Places Check-In Leaderboard. According to Context Optional, this is the first product that enables brands to recognize users who check in to Facebook Places, such as retail stores and restaurants, and reward top fans with promotions and special offers.

Want to become Facebook’s largest advertiser? After reading the recent data on Google’s top advertisers, I figured it would be a good time to take a look at Facebook’s top advertisers. While we don’t have the leaked documents to come up with a pretty chart like adage, we do have a lot of insider information [...]

Oxfam America has hit the web today to promote its Hunger Banquet program, which teaches citizens about poverty and hunger and how they can help those in need.

The first proxy of the Hunger Banquet — the Fast for a…

Today we bring you fun in the variety of games both new and old. We also bring you a way to get the most out of your applications. These seem to be the themes of the past week’s most popular Facebook applications. Remember to use our Facebook Statistics Tools to see all the applications. This [...]

The University of Kentucky has adopted Facebook Places for a marketing campaign encouraging undergraduate recruitment. Advertising Age reports that the southern college is encouraging students to check-in to Facebook Places while on campus. The university has planted giant, wooden pointers – like the tab that marks the map in the Facebook Places logo except in [...]