How social media can help wreck a home
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Recent surveys estimate Facebook is now playing a role in at least a fifth of U.S divorces and may be a factor in up to a third of divorces . With that in mind, and in the hopes that their story will serve as a lesson for others, one couple in northeast Indiana decided […]
Why Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants school kids to learn coding
NEW YORK: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter creator Jack Dorsey are among the tech luminaries appearing in a new video promoting the teaching and learning of computer coding in schools. Titled “What most schools don’t teach,” the video released online begins with Zuckerberg, Gates and other tech icons recalling the time they got their start […]
Half of Facebook parents joined to spy on kids?
You think half those adults on Facebook are there because they love Facebook? No, no. These are merely parents engaged in covert operations. I had always imagined that adults entered the world of Facebook because they wanted to re-enact their teenage years, find a new lover, or “connect” with long-lost relatives whom they never really […]
Women more prone to jealousy on Facebook
Women are more prone to romantic jealousy spurred by Facebook posts on their boyfriend’s wall than men, a new study has found. Their jealousy increases particularly if they think other people can see that their relationship may be in trouble, researchers from the University of Alabama said. As many as 226 heterosexual college-age men […]
Facebook’s new ad tracking partnership stokes privacy concerns
Facebook is pairing up with Datalogix to track whether people who see ads for products on the social networking site actually go out and purchase them in stores. To measure how well Facebook’s ads are performing, Datalogix will match up email addresses and other information from loyalty cards and programs at more than 1,000 retailers […]