So here we have the story of a Canadian woman whose insurance company used photos gleaned from her Facebook page to attack her claims of depression.

Regardless of whether you think she was or wasn’t really depressed, it’s an interesting reminder…

Friend of mine from New Jersey was in town this weekend to see a Rams game with me. (Really, you’d think I could have come up with something a little more entertaining.) We started talking about how much his wife…

Well, it looks like the folks at Facebook have figured out what to do with all those status updates we carefully craft. They’ve developed an index of national happiness - relying on key words that, hopefully, indicate what sort of mood…

There are all sorts of studies out there showing our waning interest in e-mail. Or, I guess I should say, young people’s waning interest in e-mail. They, of course, would much rather communicate through text messages and through the communication…

Well this is a good bit of news for Facebook and supporters of social media. According to this Reuters story, the social networking giant has surpassed 300 million members and is now making enough money to cover its own expenses.

Facebook…

Ars Technica has posted a rather informative guide to help Facebook users navigate the site’s sometimes less-than-intuitive privacy menus.

The guide offers a range of helpful tips (illustrated by screen shots) that will show you how to make yourself unsearchable, how to…

The most recent numbers from Nielsen show that we are spending more time social networking than ever. As of May, Facebook was still number one. And Twitter continues to grow - though it is showing some signs of slowing down.

How…

It looks like the U.S. Army has decided to let our nation’s soldiers take part in social networking after years of blocking access to sites like Facebook, Flickr and Twitter.

Wired.com says army commanders recently ordered network managers at military bases to…

It looks like Twitter is looking for way to deal, at least partially, with one of the complaints it receives from famous folk who get tired of seeing themselves impersonated on the popular social networking site.

Facing a lawsuit by St.…

We’ve all seen them. Quizzes that promise to tell you how smart you are, whether you have a dirty mind or which Star Wars character you’d be (Luke Skywalker, in my case).

If you’ve spent much time with these things, you…