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Social Networks Stories for 2013
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Implement Wave Protocol Self Hosted? 112 commentsResearchers Claim Facebook Is 'Dead and Buried' To Many Young Users 457 comments
Snapchat Users' Phone Numbers Exposed To Hackers 69 comments
Memo To Parents and Society: Teen Social Media "Addiction" Is Your Fault 271 comments
The Power of the Hoodie-Wearing C.E.O. 75 comments
Can a Computer Identify Your Urban Tribe? 117 comments
UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game 598 comments
Twitter Will Track Your Browsing To Sell Ads 120 comments
StackOverflow and Github Visualized As Cities 45 comments
Bursting the Filter Bubble 136 comments
AI Reality Check In Online Dating 192 comments
Encrypted Social Network Vies For Disgruntled Facebook Users 162 comments
Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You 163 comments
BlackBerry Launches Twitter-Like BBM Channels 49 comments
Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font 312 comments
Google Patents Fooling Friends With Snooping, Chatbots 128 comments
Feedly Forces Its Users To Create Google+ Profiles 251 comments
As IPO Nears, Do Twitter's Active User Claims Add Up? 73 comments
Twitter Marks Clean Sites As Harmful, Breaks Links 103 comments
Pen Testers Break Into Gov't Agency With Fake Social Media ID 109 comments
Facebook Testing Screen-Tracking Software For Users 115 comments
LinkedIn's New Mobile App Called 'a Dream For Attackers' 122 comments
Blackberry BBM App and Suspicious Google Play Ratings 67 comments
PM Calls Facebook Irresponsible For Allowing Beheading Clips 201 comments
Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site 277 comments
What Employee Lock-In Means At Facebook 391 comments
Facebook 'Stalker' Tool Uses Graph Search For Data Mining 38 comments
Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case 734 comments
Facebook May Dislike the Social Fixer Extension, but Many Users Love It (Video) 176 comments
What's Lost When a Meeting Goes Virtual 96 comments
NY Comic Con Takes Over Attendees' Twitter Accounts To Praise Itself 150 comments
Google ToS Change Means Your Photo Could Go In Ads 136 comments
Oil Traders Misread Tweet, Oil Prices Spike 91 comments
Book Review: The Circle 85 comments
Sick of Your Local Police Force? Crowdfund Your Own 330 comments
Social Fixer Falls Victim To Facebook Legal Threats 194 comments
Facebook and Cisco Offer Check-In Service For Free Wifi 67 comments
Researchers Show How Easy It Is To Manipulate Online Opinions 115 comments
LinkedIn Agrees To Block Stalkers 78 comments
Saudi Cleric Pummeled On Twitter For Claiming Driving Damages Women's Ovaries 408 comments
Rapid7 Launches Crowdsourced Security Research Project 39 comments
Snowden Strikes Again: NSA Mapping Social Connections of US Citizens 513 comments
The Circle Skewers Google, Facebook, Twitter 56 comments
Social Networks Force Barilla Chairman To Apologize For His Anti-gay Remarks 456 comments
A Beautiful Mind and Broken Body For Silicon Valley 79 comments
When Criminals and Terrorists Communicate In Real Time 245 comments
China Lifts Bans On Social Media, Foreign ISPs In Free Trade Zone 55 comments
Horse_ebooks Is Human After All 72 comments
Comments About Comments 276 comments
Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL? 245 comments
BlackBerry Delays Launch of BBM Apps For iOS, Android 54 comments
Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort To Find Meaning In Your Posts 125 comments
LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts 210 comments
StumbleUpon Claims They've Stumbled Onto Profits 31 comments
Wi-Fi Sniffing Lets Researchers Build Graph of Offline Social Networks 38 comments
Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved? 491 comments
The Sharing Economy Fights Back Against Regulators 192 comments
California School District Hires Firm To Monitor Students' Social Media 250 comments
Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness 373 comments
Facebook Deletes Social Fixer Community Page Without Explanation 192 comments
Silicon Beach Startups Spawn From the Ashes of MySpace 44 comments
Social Media's Role In Peer Pressure 39 comments
Can Closed Public Schools Become Makerspaces? (Video) 85 comments
Online Law Banning Discussion of Current Affairs Comes Into Force In Vietnam 140 comments
New Keyboard Accessory Shocks Users When They Try To Go On Facebook 125 comments
How Deadbeat Facebook Friends and Using ALL-CAPS Can Lower Your Credit Score 362 comments
Meet the Programmer Behind Social Fixer 64 comments
Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs 432 comments
Internet.org's Slave and Helicopter-Powered Internet 64 comments
Twitter-Based Study Figures Out Saddest Spots In New York City 57 comments
LinkedIn Now Targeting Universities, 14-Year-Olds 87 comments
Instagram "Likes" Worth More Than Stolen Credit Cards 106 comments
Twitter Eyes Signatures To Kill Fake Followers 52 comments
Twitter Buzz As an Election Predictor 55 comments
Aussie Public Servant Criticises Gov't On Twitter, Gets Sacked 151 comments
New Zealand Court Orders Facebook Disclosure To Employer 243 comments
There Is a Fly In My Tweet: Tracking Food-Borne Illness the Crowd-Sourced Way 16 comments
Samsung Offered StackOverflow Users $500 For "Organic" Publicity 146 comments
Fearful of Reader Reaction, Facebook Delays Video Ads 120 comments
SF Airport Officials Make Citizen Arrests of Internet Rideshare Drivers 510 comments
When Metadata Analytics Goes Awry 88 comments
Discovering NSA Code Names Via LinkedIn 201 comments
State Dept. Bureau Spent $630k On Facebook 'Likes' 99 comments
What Does Six Months of Meta-Data Look Like? 60 comments
Teenage League of Legends Player Jailed For Months For Facebook Joke 743 comments
Meet PRISM's English Little Brother: Socmint 76 comments
Google Preparing "Google Mine" For Organizing and Sharing Your Stuff On Google+ 129 comments
Attackers Tweet As They Assault UN Development Program Compound 240 comments
How To Block the NSA From Your Friends List 224 comments
Facebook's Complaint Process Is Arbitrary — But So Is Campaigning 114 comments
Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader? 335 comments
In Praise of the King: 1.7M Social Media Comments In Thailand 104 comments
Facebook Silently Removes Ability To Download Your Posts 229 comments
Vine Launches On Android 33 comments
Turkish PM: "To Me, Social Media Is the Worst Menace To Society." 418 comments
U.S. Authorizes Sales of American Communication Tech To Iran 108 comments
Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook's Home App Needs Some Work 34 comments
Criminal Complaint Filed Against Facebook After Girl's Death 559 comments
Entrepreneur On Yahoo/Tumblr: It's the Content Readers, Stupid 92 comments
Ex-Marine Detained Under Operation Vigilant Eagle For His Political Views Sues 279 comments
Twitter's New Money-Making Plan: Lead Generation 82 comments
French Police End Missing Persons Searches, Suggest Using Facebook 95 comments
Why We Should Celebrate Snapchat and Encourage Ephemeral Communication 140 comments
Teens, Social Media, and Privacy 106 comments
Yahoo Board Approves a $1.1B Pricetag For Tumblr 142 comments
Google I/O 2013 Underway: Watch For Updates 115 comments
How Facebook Ruined Comments (at Least For One Writer) 135 comments
17-Year-Old Girl Wins Boston TV API Programming Contest 117 comments
Facebook "Trusted Contacts" Lets You Pester Friends To Recover Account Access 114 comments
Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks Guardian Twitter Feeds 42 comments
How LinkedIn's Project Inversion Saved the Company 92 comments
Wolfram Alpha Drills Deep Into Facebook Data 70 comments
Tweet From Hacked AP Account Causes High Freq. Traders To Drop DOW 150 Points 314 comments
Crowdsourcing Failed In Boston Bombing Aftermath 270 comments
Former Diplomat Slams Facebook For Inaction On Fake Pages 164 comments
Harvard/MIT Student Creates GPU Database, Hacker-Style 135 comments
Machine Learning Susses Out Social-Network Fraud 42 comments
Facebook Revealed As Behind $1.5B "Catapult" Data Center In Iowa 82 comments
CBS Twitter Feed Compromised 32 comments
British Woman's Twitter Comments Spark Expensive Libel Claims 303 comments
In Iceland, Tap Cellphones To Avoid Incest 296 comments
LinkedIn Invites Gone Wild: How To Keep Close With Exes and Strangers 164 comments
Twitter Launches the World's Umpteenth Online Music Site 45 comments
Canadian Official Escorted From House For Others' Facebook Comments 205 comments
Samsung Accused of Paying For Negative HTC Reviews 112 comments
Hacker Modifies Facebook Home To Work On All Android Devices 124 comments
Twitter Adding Music Recommendation 22 comments
Why Local Is So Damn Hard For Startups: Foursquare Borrows $41M To Try Again 121 comments
Microsoft Game Director Adam Orth Resigns Following Xbox Comments 261 comments
Hatebase Tries To Scan For Precursors of Genocide In Language 190 comments
The ATF Wants To Know Who Your Friends Are 131 comments
Facebook Launches "Home" For Android 138 comments
New Facebook-Branded Android Coming? 112 comments
Boston Cops Go Undercover Online To Crack Down on Concerts 229 comments
Will Donglegate Affect Your Decision To Attend PyCon? 759 comments
Google Keep End-of-Life Date Forecasted 164 comments
Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users 335 comments
BBC Twitter Accounts Hacked By Pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army 129 comments
Could Twitter Have Stopped the Media's Rush To War In Iraq Ten Years Ago? 456 comments
What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader? 287 comments
Live Tweeting the Symphony? 166 comments
Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican 473 comments
Iran Blocks 'Illegal' VPNs, Google, and Yahoo 176 comments
The Manti Te'o of Physics 101 comments
DNS Hijack Leads To Bitcoin Heist 126 comments
Facebook Introduces a Mobile-Oriented Redesign 61 comments
Vint Cerf: Google Shouldn't Require Real Names 113 comments
Shooting Yourself In the Foot, 21st Century Style 172 comments
Researchers Analyze Twitter To Find Happiest Parts of the United States 160 comments
Blogging Platform Posterous To Shut Down April 30 94 comments
Facebook Employees' Laptops Compromised; User Data Believed Safe 75 comments
Facebook Can Keep Real Name Policy, German Court Rules 85 comments
When Google Got Flu Wrong 72 comments
Twitter, American Express Letting People Purchase Goods Via Hashtag 106 comments
Raytheon's Riot Program Mines Social Network Data For Intelligence Agencies 119 comments
Facebook Sued By Rembrandt IP For Two Patent Violations 105 comments
Egyptian Court Wants To Block YouTube For a Month 188 comments
Facebook's Graph Search: Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye 245 comments
Twitter #Hacked 111 comments
Mozilla Named 'Most Trusted Internet Company For Privacy' 70 comments
Facebook To App Developers: Good Idea, Now Stop Using Our API 158 comments
Twitter's New Transparency Report: Governments Still Want Your Data 30 comments
Google Now Boasts World's No. 2 and No. 3 Social Networks 150 comments
Data Analyst Spoils the World's Biggest Song Vote 165 comments
Twitter's Vine App Ready To Bomb Internet With GIF-Like Videos 117 comments
Wolfram Alpha Gives a New Window On Facebook Data 23 comments
Facebook's Graph Search Is a Privacy Test For Internet Users 104 comments
Facebook Banter More Memorable Than Lines From Recent Books 78 comments
Messenger App Brings Free VoIP to US Facebook Users — At a Price 58 comments
Facebook Announces Social Search Tools 128 comments
Instagram Loses Almost Half Its Daily Users In a Month 250 comments
Timothy Lord Discovers the Good Night Lamp at CES (Video) 236 comments
Kuwait Sentences Two Men To Jail For Tweets Criticizing Ruler 91 comments
Anonymous Helps Find Evidence In Gang Rape Case 436 comments
John McAfee Explains How He Milked Information From Belize's Elite 275 comments
Facebook Lands Drunk Driving Teen In Jail 443 comments
Rusty Foster Isn't Dead 162 comments
Facebook Gives Free Voice Calls a Trial Run in Canada 98 comments