What harm can a selfie do? How much do you really give away if you upload images that contain snippets of information unique to you? Just how much detail can a crook really make out in low-resolution mobile phone snapshot that’s uploaded to a social media site? And even if crooks could dig out all...

How many times does the word “wasted” show up in your social media profiles and posts? What?! You don’t know? Even if you’re not sure of the answer, if you are in the US, looking for credit, there’s now a chance that the companies who assess your creditworthiness will. If you’re planning to get a...

OK, so, let me get this straight. I can purchase special candies or win them from the Candy Crush Booster Wheel, like Jelly Fish in jelly clearing boards that clear three pieces from the board at random, or the Coconut Wheel on ingredient-dropping boards that changes three candies in a row into striped candies, or...

Chat-happy Facebookers rejoice! Speaking with random strangers just became a whole lot easier with a new service called “Message Requests.” No more will your idle Messenger musings be sent to the endless purgatory known as the “Other Inbox” – a place so obscure it didn’t even appear in iOS or Android renditions of the popular social...

Back in December last year, Facebook introduced keyword searching on your or your friends’ past posts. So if you wanted to quickly find your wedding photo album, or a recipe your friend posted for chocolate chip cookies, then there was no more trawling through months and years of posts to find it. You could also...

Facebook has announced that it will notify users it suspects are being targeted by nation states and urge them to take extra security precautions. Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chief security officer, explained the new notifications in a 16 October blog post, saying users will only receive the warnings if Facebook has strong evidence suggesting they are...

If you were one of the few, er, lucky Facebook users to get a peek behind the curtain to see how popular your posts are, you’re probably already aware that you aren’t exactly … how shall we put it? Upworthy. Oh well! On Wednesday, some users discovered a bug that affected Facebook’s mobile site –...

Over the years, users have clamored for a Facebook “Dislike” button. Now, finally, we know how Facebook feels about the request. Facebook Loves it with a big red heart. Or finds it Funny, with squinty-eyed, open-mouthed, laughing mirth. Or Facebook finds the requests Surprising with open-mouthed “Wow!-ness”, or with one-tear-rolling down the cheek Sadness, or...

Six years ago, Schuler Benson and Celeste Zendler (now Celeste Benson) had no mutual friends, lived in two different states, had zilch shared Facebook interests, and had never met. But one day, Facebook glitched, and the end result is that the two are now hitched. It’s the “fairy-tale for Millennials,” Schuler Benson says: one random...

Let’s say you’ve joined a travel company’s rewards program. In doing so, you handed over your email address. As you plan your next trip, maybe you’ll do a Google search on “non-stop flights to new york,” much to the delight of the advertising-engorged company. If you’re logged in to any Google account, you may very...