Social Media

After a few months in private trials, Facebook launched its Timeline feature to the masses on Thursday. In a nutshell, it lets you view people’s photos and status updates from days long past instead of just showing you what they’ve done or posted most recently. Basically, it’s the Facebook equivalent of being forced to look through your friends’ childhood scrapbooks. Intrigued? Here’s what you nee

Was Alec Baldwin striking a blow for the common air traveler when he refused to stop playing Words With Friends on his smart phone while his American Airline flight was awaiting takeoff? While his actions may seem justified to some, almost half of Americans think the cell phone rule should be honored.

Did you know that any message sent to you on Facebook which isn’t from a friend or a friend of a friend gets filtered into an “other” subfolder? Most people don’t, and this means you probably have dozens of messages sitting on your Facebook page that you’ve never looked at before.

White girls. If you are on Facebook, there’s a good chance you are friends with a whole bunch of them. Mary (a white girl herself) has been studying the social media habits of her Caucasian sisters, and has published a list of ’15 of  Things White Girls Love To Do On Facebook’ on her blog Fibromy-Awesome.

Frustrations over Facebook’s lax privacy policies have risen quite high in recent times, which makes the fact that someone was able to hack the social site and make public some of Mark Zuckerberg’s private photos all the more satisfying.

A woman in Ireland is unable to list the name of her hometown on her Facebook profile because it’s Effin, Ireland. Not “f***in’ Ireland”… Effin, Ireland.

Comedian, radio personality and actor Patrice O’Neal passed away at the age of 41 on Monday night. He suffered a stroke in October and never returned to good health.

If you got rid of some of your Facebook friends on Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘National Unfriend Day,’ you might be depressed or have second thoughts. William Shatner wants you to know that you’re going to be OK. In this clip from ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live,’ Shatner guides you through the steps on how to recover from the feelings of denial and fears of being alone that come with Facebook “un-friending.”

The turkeys staff members here at TheFW are thankful for our fabulous readers and want to wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving! In the spirit of the season, we’d like to offer a cornucopia of Thanksgiving greetings for you to post and share with the butterballs loved ones in your life. Gobble Gobble!

Jimmy Kimmel’s 2nd annual ‘National Unfriend Day’ was a success. We’ve already shown you how the Peanuts gang wants you to dump some friends on Facebook, now it’s Biz Markie’s turn. But he’s not the only celebrity that gets involved.

Facebook, Twitter and all the other social media sites have changed the way young people interact with each other, but according to a survey from Poll Position, the majority of Americans don’t think this has been a change for the better.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Facebook may have changed the way we communicate, keep up with long lost friends and pretend that we're doing actual work in the office, but it has come at a great cost to privacy. Now the federal government is forcing the social networking giant to ask all 800 million of their users if they wish to “opt out” of certain settings and features that might expose some of t