If you are single and whine about it online prepare to stay that way
Have you ever seen someone ranting and raving about not having a boyfriend or girlfriend and said: ‘I’m so turned on by this display of bitterness’?
Twitter pulls Vine adverts over claims they are ‘epilepsy triggering’
Social media company forced to remove two flashing vines for its #DiscoverMusic campaign after charity raises concerns
When it comes to nudity, Facebook is little different than Victorian England
Facebook is making a distinct choice: rather than enable freedom of expression as the company often claims to do, it imposes cultural conservatism, eroding our freedom in the very spaces we perceive to be and treat as our commons
Facebook gets a feminist twist with new friends icons
Company designer Caitlin Winner puts women front and centre in new icons for friends and groups
Facebook steps up competition with YouTube with ad-supported videos
Social network already has 4bn views a day of its native clips, but helping their creators to make money is its next ambition
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg thinks telepathy tech is on its way
Social network chief believes we’ll be able to send thoughts to each other directly using technology in the future
Cannes Lions: will advertising ever again be about the people it serves?
The winners of this year’s festival highlight that advertising, in its rush to prove that it is pro-technology, has become anti-people
Think it’s cool Facebook can auto-tag you in pics? So does the government
Our own government, as well as police and intelligence agencies around the world, will likely mine facial recognition data or create their own databases
Dow Jones chief’s tech warning on news undermined by ‘cats on skateboards’
Will Lewis says sharing deals with companies such as Facebook, Apple and Google pose threat to newspapers over control of content
Journalist Laurie Penny banned from Facebook for using pseudonym
New Statesman columnist tweets displeasure after being kicked off social media site, saying she used alias to avoid being trolled
Twitter to co-founder Jack Dorsey: ‘We don’t want you’
Committee to only consider candidates who will make a full-time commitment to Twitter, the social network’s board says in statement
Snapchat boss makes ‘don’t be creepy’ pledge
Evan Spiegel extolls the vitrues of advertising that ‘fits the context of the story’ rather than pre-rolls or banner ads
Heinz says sorry for ketchup QR code that links to porn site
Ketchup buyer mistakenly exposed to porn after Heinz allows a competition domain to lapse, allowing adult entertainment firm to buy it
Sun to relax paywall as part of drive to exploit social media
Growth of news sharing on sites such as Facebook and Twitter prompts tabloid to make selected digital content available for free
Dear Twitter (and everyone else), please end your obsession with autoplay!
Autoplaying videos, gifs and Vines look pretty, sure, but battery life, mobile data allowances and smartphone performance are all far more important to users