Without question, Facebook is the most popular Social Networking site, at least by user count. The latest figure is around one billion users. Any web site would be delighted to have such a user base.
In my opinion there are a number of flaws with the service, and while I am confident I can not make a difference I decided to go cold-turkey and disengage from Facebook for seven days to see how I felt.
Based on figures released by GlobalWebIndex it would appear that Google+ has become the 2nd largest social media platform, topped only by the might of Facebook.
Summary information claims “active users” (defined as “Used or contributed to in the past month”) grew 27% to 343m users in December 2012. Facebook, for the same period, had an active user count of 693m; significantly less than the number 1bn often quoted by Facebook themselves.
Instagram, the photo sharing site, owned by Facebook has today updated its Terms and Conditions, giving it the right to sell your photographs without your further consent.
The move has caused outrage from many Instagram users.
Anyone who follows the IT press will know the Facebook sell off may not have went as well as investors expected. The initial share price slumped within minutes of its launch.
The simple reality is that no one actually knows how to make money from Facebook — well, lots of money. They may well have over 1 billion users but they are not making enough cash for their greedy investors.
David Cameron, the current UK Prime Minster, has joined Twitter — but for what reason? Without entering into a political debate one has to wonder what he and his followers expect from Twitter.
Twitter is one of the webs success stories; only six years old with millions of active users. Like any business it needs to start generating income and has introduced some very draconian regulations recently.
On the eve of the first year of Google+ we have some encouraging statistics, announced at the Google IO developers conference in San Francisco.
After just 364 days (with the first two months of that not even open to the public) Google+ has 250 million users on the Social Networking site.
It looks like Facebook it up to its usual tricks by making changes to your profile without your consent. This time it is your email address.
One of the most requested features on Facebook is apparently the ability to edit posts and comments.
Finally the feature is being rolled out.
The Facebook Messenger app is updated today for