ADMIT IT. You are always checking your Facebook newsfeed, whether on the office computer at work or on the app on your phone. Yes, you are OBSESSED! But why have we all become so engrossed in something so monstrous and so superficial?

The real fear comes from being judged. I'm a selective misanthrope and I do my selecting by watching your social media output. Some of you come across incredibly well but I think some of you are oblivious twats. I hate you. I'd never delete you though - you're my entertainment, my soap opera, my catharsis.

One rule (of 33 so far documented) of the living in a digital age is that the internet is written in ink and has "total recall" - once there you cannot take is back and as Zackerberg's sister Randi found out you cannot depend on privacy settings.

Facebook has started rolling out a new suite of simplified privacy tools to help its users understand where their photos and updates will appear. T...

Have your Facebook friends come over all funny and started posting long-winded, legalistic, statuses about copyright? We've reproduced it below in ...

Whatever your views are on gay marriage and the rights and wrongs of getting married in a church or elsewhere, what happened to devote Christian Adrian Smith should be a stark warning to businesses and organisations, large and small.

Standing in the stadium crowd watching Lady Gaga earlier this month, I along with 55,000 other fans lifted my phone and took a photo. On my way home from the gig, I flipped through the montage of photos, gifs and videos I had made during the evening and one image stood out from all the rest.

Private Facebook messages could start appearing publicly for European users after French and British users of the site reported a "bug" that makes pri...

Sky's announcement of Adserve at The Future of Advertising...In One Afternoon in London, earlier this year, marks the leap of TV advertising into the targeted ad world of the internet and store cards.

Mark Zuckerberg’s world-dominating web company Facebook could disappear within five years according to an industry expert. Ironfire Capital found...

So Facebook keeps your attention (and thus its ad revenues) by offering you the ability to quietly and surreptitiously spy on those around you. It has little to do with caring and sharing, despite their marketing bumpf.

Facebook's privacy settings have again come under fire for revealing information that users assumed was private. Users' sexual orientations have b...

There's something quite offensive about Timeline's intrusiveness. It takes seemingly discrete pieces of information and combines them to create a composite picture of who it thinks you are.

If you were asked who could harvest a trove of personal data from 10 million Facebook users in just three weeks you might guess company CEO Mark Zuckerberg over Jason Zada. You'd be dead wrong.

Social networking giant Facebook was found to have “deceived” users by allowing their personal information to become public. Facebook was inves...

It is hard to define whose freedom the government and large-scale enterprises seek to defend, but following recent Facebook events; it seems that sexi...

Everything in this world comes at a price. Facebook seemed to be simply a wonderful and free service that at worst showed us a few advertisements. Now it appears that the cost might be much higher. How much is you own privacy worth to you?

[insert name here] is downscaling to old school email and phone only. Please use name@here.com or 07555 555 555 x - a friend's last status update, Ju...