According to a study conducted by Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University- the human brain is capable of managing a maximum of only 150 friendships.
Dunbar’s number, roughly 150, is a measurement of the “cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships”.
Dunbar derived the limit [...]

Facebook has announced the launch of their “Friend Connection” targeting filter which allows advertisers “target friends of people already connected to their Facebook page, Application, Group or Event.
In addition to harnessing the social graph by targeting your connections’ friends, every “Friends of connection” targeted ad promoting a Page or Event includes social content about a [...]

For anyone who either saw a wall post or received a message suggesting that Facebook may have changed  their advertising policies to allow third-party advertisers use your posted pictures, please note that it is completely false!
The Social Media Behemoth says it never made any such policy changes, categorically stating how it handles, and has handled [...]

Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, you’ll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer by visiting www.facebook.com/username/. You’ll also see a notice on your home page with instructions for obtaining your username at that time.
I remember reading the [...]

Social networking has changed the face of the web (and indeed everything else) in recent times, with social media sites like Facebook and Twitter spearheading the cause- redefining and giving new meaning to “socialization”.
Social media provide an interactive platform to connect and share with your friends and loved ones, likewise a perfect opportunity to grow [...]

Some Facebook users have lost access to their fb accounts, due to a phishing scam which has been making the rounds. The scam, which spoofs Facebook, “lures users to enter their information at a site FBAction.net which displays a false Facebook login page”.
Within a short amount of time, users that enter their email and password [...]

In what is probably the “biggest” news in the month of April, Facebook has officially opened up its activity stream to developers through the launch of the new
Facebook Open Stream API.
So what’s the big deal?
Apparently, the new API would allow developers build applications which would enable users “read and interact with their stream”. [...]

Facebook’s redesign has come under intense fire from a large section of its 175 million users. The new design has been described as being complicated, less practical, hard to use, etc. Some have even referred to the new design as “a cheap replica of twitter”, with others going as far as calling it ”completely stupid”.
What is [...]

If you logged in to your Facebook account this morning, you would no doubt have noticed the glaring “Terms of Use Update” which read;
:
Over the past few days, we have received a lot of feedback about the new
terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have
decided to return to our previous Terms [...]

In a completely bizarre incident- not to mention a huge blow to social networking- a man in the UK has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his wife over her “status change” on social networking platform Face Book.
Wayne Forrester murdered his wife Emma on 18 february 2008. The couple had been [...]