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In the wake of the 2016 harsh political season, Mark Zuckerberg made a public statement that the Facebook social media site would be seeking to stop the spread of fake news stories. He wrote: “Of all the content on Facebook, more than 99% of what people see is authentic…” The reality is that the problem…

In an effort to allow a greater range of responses, Facebook has added new emojis for users in some countries to use. In Ireland and Spain, users can now use a throbbing heart for “love,” a fuming face for “anger,” a teary-eyed “Sad,” and others. Facebook calls the new symbols “Reactions” and modeled…

On November 11, 2016, many users logged onto Facebook only to find out they were dead. A message at the top of their Facebook page read, “We hope people who love [insert name here] will find comfort in things others share to remember and celebrate [his/her] life.” Some users went to twitter to show that…

Just before Christmas in 2015, Stephen Roseman posted a picture on Facebook of a dog with the caption "badly burned and disfigured trying to save his family from a house fire. One like=one prayer, one share=ten prayers." Thousands of users responded. The good news is that the dog is OK, but it was not…

Mikel McLaughlin has an impressive 560 friends on Facebook. While looking over that list, McLaughlin realized that he did not actually know most of those people so he set out to change that. The Minnesota native messaged a few friends and asked them if they wanted to meet for some quality time. Then,…

A study by the University of Illinois has found that Christians are happier and more socially connected than atheists are on Twitter. The team that produced the study says they looked at data from almost 2 million tweets from 16,000 users, and looked specifically at the differences in the way the two…

A tourist in Australia had to be rescued by police after she walked off a pier while browsing Facebook on her phone. Authorities said the woman was walking along a bay in Melbourne and was too busy looking at her Facebook page to notice she was near the edge of the pier. Fortunately, a bystander saw…

Social media site, Facebook has announced that they have removed the final portion of an old privacy feature that allowed users to be hidden from the site’s search feature. The feature, when enabled, allowed users to prevent their page from being located even if someone entered their name directly into…

The growth of social media has created a new perspective on friendship. Over a period of several years, it is easy to collect a lot of cyber friendships that are no more than people that appear on the computer screen. News feeds can be full of chatter and information, but not much of it is from real…

In study published in the online journal PLOS ONE, suggests that when using social media, people need to be aware that the prevailing mood online is likely to influence them. The author of the study, James Fowler, professor of medical genetics and political science at the University of California says…