Young women are becoming more and more dependent on social media and checking on their social networks, according to a new study released earlier today by Oxygen Media and Lightspeed Research. In fact, as many as one-third of women aged…

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There’s an implicit pressure on social media enthusiasts to be connected in more than one way. It’s not enough to…

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With social media itself an exponentially growing trend that’s here to stay, many…

Lady Gaga is the first living music artist to acquire 10 million fans or “Likes” on Facebook, beating U.S. President Barack Obama by around 700,000. She reached the milestone earlier this weekend.

Gaga previously made…

Guess who’s gonna score The Social Network (a.k.a. “The Facebook Movie”)? It’s that king of Internet controversy, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.

Reznor was initially going to take some time off after touring, but once director David Fincher…

Google is working on a social service to rival Facebook, if web rumors are to be believed.

And while Google’s social networking efforts have so far fallen flat, even satisfied Facebook users should hope that the search engine’s efforts bear…

Gay social network Fabulis is getting a quarter of a million dollars toward its seed round from David Bohnett, who founded GeoCities at the tender age of 16. This brings the network’s total seed money to $825,000, <a…

At last weekend’s Glastonbury Festival, the legendary UK music and performing arts event, a huge photo was taken of 70,000 enthusiastic fans.

Now this picture, which was snapped during the halftime of the England-Slovenia World Cup Match, is…

Facebook is rolling out new permissions guidelines for apps that access user information.

With these new permissions, all Facebook apps will have to specifically ask you for profile information that they plan to use.

A Facebook rep said to…

It’s all good and fine to propose via Twitter these days or to change your relationship status at the altar, but when your love has faded and your thoughts turn to divorce, you’d better unfriend your soon-to-be-ex long…