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…

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…

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…

No big surprise to see Facebook in a position where it has to change an unpopular feature or policy. This is, after all, the company that brought us the widely criticized Beacon.

Last night, the company announced to its 175 million…

You know those embarrassing photos people like to post on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook? Well, someone’s figured out a way to make money off them.

YoBusted is a site that allows people to post compromising photos of their friends…

So Charter Communications has backed off plans to track the Web usage of its subscribers. It took just a month for concerned customers and politicians to convince the company to rethink a pilot program that would have monitored Web traffic in…

A bit of a fuss is being raised over a recent study by Northeastern University that tracked the movements of some 100,00 people through their cell phones. This story details the concerns raised by some critics, who object to the idea…