Google Docs is changing how we share and control privacy for our documents, presentations and other stored files.

Twitter warned us that more downtime was likely in light of record usage surrounding the World Cup; this afternoon, more downtime has arrived, with fail whales being the only thing available at Twitter.com as of around 6:20pm ET.

The number of Internet users who visited a social network or a blog increased by 24 percent from April 2009 to April 2010, while the average person spent 66 percent more time on those sites during that period, according to new numbers from the Nielsen Co. research firm.

Social media is going to rule the Web until at least 2012

Youtube has just released a new video editor that lets you create video mashups and edit down clips from your library of existing video uploads.

Social networking with built-in GPS was meant to be the next big thing.

Starting this summer, Twitter will use its new "t.co" domain name to shorten links that users post directly on Twitter.com or through applications such as TweetDeck. That will help the posts stay within the service's 140-character.The main aim is to link it in a way that removes the obscurity of shortened link and lets you know where a link will take you.

A 17-year-old Isaac Washington is being tried as an adult on an attempted murder charge that accuses him of stabbing a classmate at school in March. Police have said the teen was upset about a Facebook page called "Everybody Hates Isaac Washington" that contained racial slurs about Washington, who is black. The districts blocked social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter at school, which might not be the best solution but they went further to educating students, parents, school staff and administrators on how best to use social media and the Internet .

Students in the University of Maryland research were asked to give up all media for a day .For the research, titled "24 Hours: Unplugged," 200 students at the University of Maryland's College Park Campus blogged about their experiences after a day of giving up all social media. The project director Susan Moeller noticed that what they wrote at length about was how they hated losing their personal connections. Going without media meant, in their world, going without their friends and family." The students missed not much of the media but the social connections that it facilitates. Social media seems inevitable in this 21 century