Tim Dowling: Instagram arguments – and a missing coffee spoon
‘Isn’t it funny,’ I say, ‘how you were both left feeling hurt by perceived breaches of social media protocol. And yet here in the real world…’
Barack Obama and David Cameron fail to see eye to eye on surveillance
British prime minister takes tougher line on internet companies than US president at White House talks on Islamist threats
Mark Zuckerberg’s book club opens with a disappointing first chapter
What could possibly go wrong with a book club boasting 250,000 members? First they have to show up
Facebook users warned not to click on ‘Hottest Leaked Snapchats’ links
Security firm BitDefender says posts promising saucy ‘leaked’ photos and videos could lead to identity fraud
David Cameron seeks cooperation of US president over encryption crackdown
PM to ask Barack Obama to put pressure on US internet companies to work more closely with UK intelligence agencies
Facebook tackles graphic videos and photos with ‘are you sure?’ warnings
Social network has begun placing warning messages over videos and images it deems graphic in nature preventing them from automatically playing
Egyptian student jailed for proclaiming that he is an atheist
Karim Ashraf Mohamed al-Banna is sentenced to three years on blasphemy charges for Facebook entry
The golden days of free, mass social media reach never really existed
Marketers must get over the misconception that platforms such as Facebook and Twitter used to offer free ways to create meaningful engagement at scale, says Jerry Daykin
If the price of giving everyone internet access is total domination by Facebook, it’s not worth it
The social media firm’s latest big idea – to allow users in developing nations free net access if they use its app – should be resisted, writes John Naughton
The web has stolen my creativity. What I need is the time and space to think …
Mark Zuckerberg may have discovered the book but Facebook – and the rest of the web – is the enemy of deep thought
Facebook founder’s book club choice sends sales rocketing
Mark Zuckerberg’s selection of The End of Power by Moisés Naím sparks ‘seismic change’ in the book’s fortunes, with 18 months’ sales outstripped in days
Mark Zuckerberg declares 2015 the ‘Year of Books’ with online reading club
The Facebook founder has started an online book club with the aim of reading and discussing a different work every two weeks
Does anyone tell Facebook their relationship status any more?
According to a new poll, more people are refusing to publicly announce whether or not they are single
Oculus VR founder on the key to virtual reality’s success: ‘People are narcissists’
Palmer Luckey says simply piping in parent company Facebook’s news feeds and photos ‘isn’t interesting’ though
Who’s taking control this year? Google, BBC, Facebook, or even North Korea?
The media industry lives in strange convergent times which are only set to get stranger in the year ahead