Facebook introduces tools to help you stop stalking your ex online
Social network trials ‘take a break’ tools, offering a quick option to hide posts and pictures from a former partner after a user changes their relationship status
Digital disconnection is the last act of youthful rebellion
For the smartphone generation, a digital footprint is a cord connecting them to government and ecommerce – many are choosing to cut ties and go offline
Facebook’s Safety Check leads technology’s support of Paris
Social network activates feature previously used during natural disasters, while other apps and tools help those caught in aftermath of terrorist attacks
Facebook and Twitter libel actions rise as total defamation cases hit six-year low
Overall reduction in cases attributed to new law, which sought to discourage trivial claims
Facebook’s Notify: latest app is like Twitter – but for phone alerts
Company releases mobile software to unite news notifications and alerts, creating a single livestream on your phone’s lock screen
Instagram star Essena O’Neill calls out fake social media couples
Social media and selfie queen who sensationally quit Instagram was approached by male supermodel to become a couple – to boost followers
Sean Parker on tech industry’s ‘tricks’: ‘Social media feeds our narcissism’
Facebook’s earliest evangelist says company’s first responsibility is to its shareholders, and engineers’ algorithms have ‘unintended consequences’
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Facebook ads are about to get even more personal
Site is offering small businesses new location-aware adverts, to let them distinguish between users in different places
Oculus VR: ‘Classrooms are broken. Kids don’t learn the best by reading books’
Palmer Luckey thinks virtual reality can bring ‘real-world experience’ to more children – and become ‘more ubiquitous than the smartphone’
Candy Crush(ed): Zuckerberg pledges to halt Facebook game invitations
Speaking at a question and answer session in India, Facebook founder says he will find a solution to the problem of annoying game notifications
Poot Lovato: has the internet discovered Demi’s secret sister?
How pop star’s ‘twin who was locked in a basement her whole life’ captured the web’s creatives and fans with onslaught of Poot memes and Photoshop efforts
Max Schrems Facebook privacy complaint to be investigated in Ireland
Audit by Irish data protection watchdog over alleged transfer of European data to US by Facebook follows three-year campaign and ECJ ruling
What do writers owe readers in the digital age?
Joanne Harris has proposed new rules for authors and audiences’ interactions, but creators including Colm Tóibín and AL Kennedy think their only obligation is to words
Newspapers face up to the ad crunch in print and digital
As the top ten print advertisers strip their budgets, digital ad growth is hit by slowdown