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A lack of social participation on Facebook leads to people feeling less meaningful, a new study suggests. Furthermore the less reaction people get on statuses and photographs the more excluded and invisible they feel. Social media shunning can even lead to lower self-esteem and a sense of loss of control. The findings come from new […]

  (By Samantha Goodyear) With the millions of apps, websites and other platforms for people to communicate through media that are all over the Internet these days, this is truly the age of social media. Teenagers like myself are among the top users of most social media platforms on the Internet. Whether it’s updating a

They are experts in the arts of patience, multi-tasking and time management. But when it comes to technology, it seems some parents have a lot to learn. These photos show hilarious text messages that American parents have sent to their baffled children. Amusing: One tech-troubled mother struggles with the concept of Google – or, as

Facebook now has over a billion mobile users, the firm has revealed as record breaking results were announced. The number of users who log in every day increased 21 percent to 802 million. The number of Facebook users who log in at least once a month using mobile devices climbed 34 percent to surpass 1

For many people, chatting to friends is a major reason to use Facebook’s app on their smartphone. But soon they will have to download the social network’s partner app, called Messenger, to carry on their instant conversations. Facebook is reportedly notifying users of its popular app that they will no longer be able to send

A Dutch teen had an epic meltdown after a bomb threat to American Airlines that she claims was a joke was referred to authorities. Twitter user @QueenDemetriax_ begged for forgiveness and to be left alone after sending the threatening tweet Sunday morning and within minutes receiving a reply from the airline saying her IP address

A schoolgirl hanged herself because she could not cope with the ‘21st-century pressures’ caused by social media and mobile phones, her father said yesterday. The family of 15-year-old Olivia Glennie had no idea anything was wrong before her death. The father Alex said the pressures of 24-hour communication by text, Facebook and the internet mean

Facebook will now require all users of its mobile application to install another app for chatting with their friends. It is officially confirmed that Facebook will disable messaging in its main apps for iPhone and Android and demand users to download another app – Facebook Messenger. This was announced by Facebook representatives to Huffingtonpost yesterday.

Keyboard shortcuts are an easy way to save yourself some time and typing if you spend a lot of time click-clacking away at your keyboard like I do. The most common ones are somewhat universal (to many applications, at least). Control + P to print, Control + C to copy, Control + V to paste.

Buried within the settings of Apple’s iOS 7 is a feature that could revolutionise how we communicate. Called the Multipeer Connectivity Framework (MCF), it lets you send messages and photos even when a person has no signal. Now a group of developers has created a free iPhone app called FireChat that takes advantage of this