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  Bethany Mota is only 18-years-old but thanks to the wild popularity of her videos about shopping she’s more popular online than Vogue magazine and has her own national branded line of clothing and jewelry. The Northern California teen is turning a hobby she started at 14 into a million dollar phenomenon before she’s even

  It took heaps of bad press and a court settlement, but Facebook is finally ready to shut down one of its most controversial features. In a blog post for developers on Thursday, the company confirmed that it will be shutting down “Sponsored Stories” ads on April 9. The ads show how your Facebook friends

It’s January, just after the holiday and most teenagers have received a new cell phone or Mp3 player.  According to Pew Research, over 78% of teens have cell phones with almost half of them having smartphones. Teens will be rushing to online mobile app stores to download the hottest apps. According to a recent study,

  Hackers broke into Snapchat, the hugely popular mobile app, accessing the phone numbers and usernames of 4.6 million users and publishing them online, tech news website TechCrunch has announced. The numbers were partially masked when they were briefly published on SnapchatDB.info, and the unidentified hackers told TechCrunch they had done this “to convince the

  Over 15 per cent of the Earth’s population use Facebook, with 1.19 billion users logging on each month. The social network knows intimate details about most of these people – whether it be what they eat for lunch or who they spend most of their time with. While the concept is unnerving, the vast

(By Tori Molnar) I started my company, Utoria, when I was only 13, and my mum has always given me guidelines about what I should and shouldn’t be posting on social media. However, through speaking to audiences of peers, I’ve realised that most of you don’t have similar situations. The majority of young adults’ tweets,

Details of a new law issued by China’s supreme court are bound to make loose talkers on Sina Weibo* and other social media platforms think twice before speaking freely. The law says that any libellous posts or messages will be considered “severe” breaches of the law if they are visited or clicked on more than

  (By Katie Lepi) There are probably hundreds of different ways to use Facebook in your classroom. We’ve written about a number of them, and we know that a lot of educators out there are using the tool for everything from classroom projects to keeping in touch with parents. But before you jump into using

Teens who friend their parents online feel closer to them in real life, study says Remember the good old’ days when parents and teenagers didn’t talk the same language? That’s so pre-Internet. Nowadays, kids and parents are connecting online — a trend that’s not only affording parents a window into their children’s lives but that

The Bureau of Public Enterprises says it plans to roll out policies and the legal framework for the regulation of the social media in Nigeria. Director General of the privatisation agency, Mr. Benjamin Dikki frowned on the unregulated posting of what he called offensive materials on the various social networking sites. Dikki said this plan was in