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This guide walks you through Sophos-recommended privacy settings in Facebook, and shows you how to set more secure levels of privacy and reduce the chance of becoming a victim of online identity theft

While social networking site Facebook was created to help people connect with their friends, increasing research in the effect of social media on human interaction is painting a different picture - one that features the development of antisocial behavior,

This site randomly displays the private phone numbers of unsuspecting Facebook users.There are uncountable numbers of groups on Facebook called "lost my phone!!!!! need ur numbers!!!!!" or something like that. Most of them are marked as 'public', or 'visi

"Last year it seemed like every new LMS company was trying to position itself as the "Facebook" of online learning. Then Facebook started to make everyone angry (or bored, or both), and we saw that idea dry up pretty quick (well, for the most part). The new catch phrase battle seems to be heating up over the words "open" and "free." Both Pearson and Blackboard are racing to establish either part or all of their services as open and/or free."

Facebook wants to trademark the word "face." The social networker which connects more than 500 million users has already shown how we can all live together as one big happy set of FBF's by forcing other sites to drop "book" from their names, and now, in a

Facebook is five. Maybe you didn't get it in your news feed, but it was in February 2004 that Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, along with some classmates, launched the social network that ate the world. Did he realize back then in his dorm that he was wit

Social networking websites such as Facebook are helping to reduce college drop-out rates, it is claimed.

Facebook photo albums, online clips and video briefings for international students are among examples of best practice highlighted in a new report aimed at helping universities and colleges better inform their first-years about life at university.

Desire 2 Learn have issued a challenge to Blackboard (which has been trying to establish an instructional technology monopoly through numerous (erroneous?) patent lawsuits. D2L invites Blackboard to drop their most recent lawsuit. In return, D2L will dona

The £4,400 MA in Social Media will also explain how to set up blogs and publish podcasts. Bit of a Telegraph slant on the story though.

Skype is slipping from the grips of its current owner eBay but that's not the only big news from the VOIP service - it's planning a platform to allow third party apps to make Skype calls.

"In this paper, we explore the benefits of using social media in an online educational setting, with a particular focus on the use of Facebook and Twitter by participants in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) developed to enable educators to learn about the Carpe Diem learning design process. We define social media as digital social tools and environments located outside of the provision of a formal university-provided Learning Management System. We use data collected via interviews and surveys with the MOOC participants as well as social media postings made by the participants throughout the MOOC to offer insights into how participants' usage and perception of social media in their online learning experiences differed and why. We identified that, although some participants benefitted from social media by crediting it, for example, with networking and knowledge-sharing opportunities, others objected or refused to engage with social media, perceiving it as a waste of their time. We make recommendations for the usage of social media for educational purposes within MOOCs and formal digital learning environments."

A University of Oxford academic is setting up an award to recognise misrepresentations of research in the press. Dorothy Bishop, professor of developmental neuropsychology at Oxford, announced the Orwellian Prize for Journalistic Misrepresentation on her

This paper presents a summary of literature and main issues relating to the impact of social networks in Higher Education in the UK, with particular emphasis upon students' communication and engagement with faculty via social network sites. The review wil

Instead of focusing their attention on promoting information to mainstream media, some university public affairs offices are using the power of social media to engage the community directly.

People's health could be harmed by social networking sites because they reduce levels of face-to-face contact, an expert claims.

New research from the Kaohslung Medical University Hospital in Taiwan shows a correlation in young teens between internet addiction and other psychological disorders. According to CNN and the research report, "ADHD and hostility were linked to Internet ad