Internet & Social Media

Are you addicted to Facebook? 85 percent of Facebook users are so addicted that they log into their account as soon as they open their web browsers, University of Gothenburg researchers found in a new survey. It does mean the giant social network is the primary website for most of its users, indicating their ‘addiction’. [...]

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Is Facebook going to be the thing of PAST? As social discovery of meeting people is a new trend on the social networking arena, Tagged.com has taken over Facebook for minutes spent per visit on the website. Tagged.com not only beat Facebook but it left behind Pinterest, Twitter and Instagram too, when it comes to [...]

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If you are Google fan, this news may matter to you. Google Plus’s feature ‘Hangouts on Air’ is now available to the worldwide users and broadcasters of the social network. Hangouts can be limited to invited friends or opened to anyone, reported AP. The search giant had introduced this feature last year to the selective [...]

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If you are having low self-esteem, just don’t log on to Facebook as it may worse your problem. A new study has claimed that people with low self-esteem end up feeling worse, when they log on to the largest social-networking website. In the rage of low feeling they keep posting or sharing negative thoughts making [...]

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Google has officially got license to test self-driving cars on public streets in Nevada, following its successful demonstrations in Carson City and Las Vegas Strip. Earlier, demonstrations have proved that the car is safe. The modified Toyota Prius was issued a red license plate bearing an infinity sign next to the left of number ‘001’, [...]

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Facebook has launched a new feature that censors and blocks ‘irrelevant or inappropriate’ comments on the social networking website. However, there is no official statement from the social-network giant regarding this new feature. If a user’s comment is blocked, a popup error appears at the Facebook site asking the user ‘This Comment Can’t Be Posted.’ [...]

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Pinterest now third most popular social network in the US beating Google plus & LinkedIn

Pinterest is now the third most popular social networking website beating LinkedIn and Google Plus. The new kind of social network, where users share pictures and create ‘vision boards’ of their favorite things had 104,415,903 unique visits in March 2012. In the given month, LinkedIn had 857, 334, 39 unique visits at the same time, [...]

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In a bizarre incident the Chinese authorities have banned internet users from searching Ferrari world. All it happened when breaking news reports suggested that son of a senior Communist party official was killed in a car crash and following the speculation authorities hurriedly removed references to the Italian supercar producers from Chinese search engines. It [...]

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Google India has claimed 3.2 per cent of Indian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) comes from Internet and the number is only set to grow. Speaking at the India Today Conclave, held in New Delhi, Google India country head Rajan Anandan said: “3.2 percent of the GDP is due to internet.” Anandan was speaking at a [...]

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Facebook is gradually becoming Scambook, as scammers kept targeting the world’s largest social networking website. These days, sick baby photos are doing rounds on the Facebook pages, and experts have warned that it could be a Facebook scam. These photos are accompanied with the message that Facebook will donate money for every share, but this [...]

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