social media

As we get ready to ring in the new year, we look back at who won, and lost big-time in 2012.   Where did Facebook land?  Groupon? Ever heard of LinkedIn?  You will.

You know what's cool? One billion users. OK, now that that's out of the way, lets discuss the big Facebook news, which is that the social network  recently topped one billion users. This amounts to about 15% of the world's population.

Facebook has turned out to be not the investment business leaders once thought.

Facebook's shaky stock prices dipped below $20 a share Thursday after the world's largest social network released a report admitting 8.7 percent of its users are fake.

Facebook’s cratering stock price is far from the social network’s only problem these days. They are also dealing with a customer base, which is getting increasingly bored with its service.

The fallout continues over Rush Limbaugh's "comments" about Ms. Fluke.

Whether they realize it or not, the majority of Americans now own smartphones.

You may not be able to search for your own Tweets on Twitter after a week, but a marketing research company in the UK can now search all the Tweets Tweeted since January of 2010. This is possible because Twitter just sold Datasift the right to sort through them.

What you say, especially if you're a journalist, could wind up in the files of the Department of Homeland Security.

If you recently lost a slew of Facebook friends, it probably wasn’t a glitch. Go back and look at your timeline because the chances are good it’s your own fault. That’s what a new study from Nielsen seems to indicate anyway. The group surveyed about 2,000 adults to learn why Facebook users add and remove friends, and the results may surprise you.