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Facebook Messenger is increasing transparency and at the same time making it harder to ignore someone's text message without the other person knowing.

Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and other social networks help you stay connected with friends and family, but it's easy to overdo the connecting and end up distracted and unproductive. Worse, many social networks notify you every time someone tries to interact with you, making it even harder to concentrate on productive tasks. Turning these helpful reminders off can be tricky in some instances, but setting up a way to tune out mobile and e-mail notifications is well worthwhile. Here's how to stop your social networks from distracting you, so you can get your working life back on track. And don't worry--you can still peek at your Twitter page once in a while.

Dismissed by many as too shallow to qualify as communication, texting makes many feel as connected as phone calls, and can be better at getting even the sick to clean up their acts.

Attorneys for Facebook on Monday asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Paul Ceglia that seeks 50% of Mark Zuckerberg's stake in the social networking giant.

Just weeks before Facebook's long-anticipated initial public offering, an impressive new blog has launched that promises to expose the social networking IPO "scam."

A new study found LinkedIn is becoming a richer hunting ground for identity thieves looking for wealthy victims. No matter which network they're on, Facebook and LinkedIn users make things too easy by posting birthdays, names of pets and other answers to common security questions.

Social tools debuting at the enterprise level face many pitfalls that can derail even the best laid plans. A few IT leaders speaking at the Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise Conference and Expo in San Francisco last week revealed some of these social danger zones.

Social games maker Zynga is trying to reduce its dependence on Facebook by allowing users to play directly on Zynga.com.

Netflix has agreed to pay $9 million to settle a suit over its illegally long retention of customer rental records. It is now redoubling efforts to get law changed that keeps it from posting to Facebook lists of the things its customers are renting right now.

LinkedIn reported a 30% increase in fourth-quarter profits, but the social network site's success and small size make it an attractive takeover candidate.

A report published last week illuminates just how some organizations are using social tools inside and outside their enterprise and what results they’re seeing, and it’s worth a read.