Social Networking

In an attempt to "clean up the clutter", Facebook tries to explain what's going on.

Even after an afternoon spent playing around with it, I'm not sure what Microsoft's Socl site is supposed to be.

In its first earnings report since going public in May, Facebook proved all the skeptics right.

Shares of social networking giant Facebook plummet in early Monday trading nearly 14% below Friday's first-day closing price.

Facebook may be enjoying its IPO roadshow at the moment, but out there lurks the company that will destroy the social networking giant.

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.

There is nojustification for a boss, prospective employer or college admissions officer to demand access to private Facebook accounts, but they are doing it more and more often. Until it's ruled illegal, camouflage can preserve what confrontation can not.

Google's desire to compete with Facebook in personalized advertising and social media is ruining the search giant's innovative culture, a former executive argues.

An apparently increasing number of employers and university administrators believe they have the right to demand usernames and passwords to Facebook and other social networks to check up on you. Facebook Peeping is so obviously invasive and abusive it's shocking that even non-geeks don't immediately raise alarms about it.

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.