Social Networking

Naughty photos can lead to lasting consequences. Instagram helps teens avoid mistakes with warnings, blurs, and support when things go wrong.

Want to stand out on LinkedIn? Verify your identity, education, and work experience on your profile to build trust and improve search rankings.

Don't want the pressure of "Seen"? Learn how to easily manage Instagram DM read receipts for individual chats or your entire inbox.

Tired of Meta? We explain what your Meta account is and provide the simple steps to permanently delete your Meta account and all of your associated data.

Tired of Facebook? Here are the simple steps to permanently delete your Facebook account and all of your history or temporarily deactivate it.

Safeguard your Facebook memories. Our guide shows how to make a backup copy of all of your Facebook data, including posts, messages, photos, and videos.

Haven't tried My AI, Snapchat's ChatGPT-powered bot? We take you through the first personalization steps and integrating it the right way into your chats.

Meta's new privacy feature in Threads now enables users to prevent their posts from being "suggested" in other people's feeds on Facebook and Instagram.

Want to unfriend someone on Facebook but don't want them to find out? Here's how to block them out without pissing them off.

Blurring or obscuring your face in a photo may not be enough to avoid recognition. Researcher will soon recognize you without seeing your face. 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the social network is close to unveiling a new button that lets you express empathy with a post.

Social networking sites Facebook and Pinterest have the largest following among U.S. Internet users, with Instagram close behind in third.

The News Feed Preferences panel lets you choose friends whose posts you want to see at the top of your feed, and select others to unfollow.

Taking a page from Snapchat, an update to the Facebook photo editor interface allows the easy addition and manipulation of stickers, text and filters.

President Obama has taken then helm of @POTUS, a twitter account only he will post to, meant to be handed down between presidents.

A new study from Facebook, published in Science, suggests our own biases are the biggest factor in the one-sided political nature of our News Feeds.

Waze has launched a series of Twitter accounts in 50 cities that warn when traffic conditions are unusually bad and advise alternate routes.

Social network Twitter now lets you opt in to receiving direct messages from all users of the site, regardless of whether you follow them.

Social network Twitter has begun a limited test of auto-playing video ads in multiple formats in user timelines, AdAge is reporting.

Facebook now lets you name a legacy contact able to perform simple account management tasks in the event of your death.

A new Illinois cyberbullying law compels parents to surrender the social networking passwords of their children at the request of school officials.

The new warnings, being applied to graphic video of Charlie Hebdo terrorists, also prevent those under the age of 18 from viewing the content.

Twitter is rolling out a new While You Were Away feature that recaps the most popular tweets during your absence from the social network.

Twitter has revealed the top 10 New Years resolutions of 2015 shared on its social network, with losing weight coming in number 1.

Twitter Offers allows you to save rebates and coupons on the social network to your payment card for easy redemption.

Hackers have leaked over 200,000 photos and videos, many explicit, stolen from a third-party site called Snapsave.

A new Facebook app will allow you to participate in public discussions without requiring the use of your real or account name.

Facebook is rolling out the ability to have messages self-destruct after a set period of time to a select group of iOS app users.

Delaware's new digital inheritance law allows executors of estates access to the email and social media accounts of the deceased.

Twitter has promised to improve support for family members of deceased users after Robin Williams' daughter was bullied off the social network.

A gang of Russian cybercrooks have compiled a database of over 1.2 billion stolen account credentials from over 420,000 websites.

Facebook is drawing criticism from the scientific community, who argue it unethically manipulated users' emotions as part of a secret psychology experiment.

The American Bar Association issued guidance to lawyers stating that researching jurors' publicly available social media accounts is ethical practice.

Here's how to get the most out of your FIFA World Cup soccer experience on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and your mobile device.

A new Facebook mobile feature that can automatically identify what TV show, movie, or song you're enjoying has created a new privacy concern.

Facebook's new Ask button lets friends prompt you for personal information like your relationship status that you've withheld from the site.

Pinterest's new Guided Search option allows you to explore popular pins on the social network, even if you don't know exactly what you're looking for.

Nearby Friends, a new addition to the iOS and Android Facebook mobile app, allows you to share your location on a map with friends of your choosing.

All users are opted in to Twitter's new photo-tagging feature by default, but limiting who can tag you or opting out is easy.

New data analysis from social network Twitter shows what days and months the English-speaking world is most likely to be happy or sad.

A new system from a University of Sheffield research team seeks to use big data to help separate Twitter fact from fiction.

Improve your chance of online dating success by keeping an eye out for telltale no-nos as you sort through potential date’s profiles.

A WIRED study of OkCupid and Match.com data reveals which words and phrases are associated with the hottest, most popular dating profiles.

A NC State University study shows job seekers are not OK with prospective employers violating their privacy by looking at their social media history.

Snapchat is giving users tools to combat incoming waves of spam after 4.6 million Snapchat username and phone numbers were accidentally leaked last month.

Facebook is partnering with 19 non-profit organizations to make your holiday charitable giving a little bit more social this year.

A recent update to Instagram has brought Instagram Direct, a new way to send private photos and videos directly to members' inboxes.

A survey of U.S. teens by the Family Online Safety Institute shows that most teens use social networking, but few share their location while doing so.

Free service Persona scans your Facebook, Twitter and Google+ histories for profanity, alcohol references and other potentially damaging content.