You probably have seen it in your Facebook wall, posted by your friends who in turn was posted by their friends. A 30-minute video posted on YouTube by Invisible Children–a non-profit group based in San Diego, California–aims to make notorious African warlord Joseph Kony famous enough to keep alive the US-supported manhunt for the murderous rebel leader who has abducted thousands of children to turn th...

Facebook has unveiled a new feature called “Interest Lists,” which the social networking company says is a “whole new way to keep up with stuff you care about and tidy up your experience.” Sounds familiar? You know, like Pinterest? Yes, we noticed. Anyway, Interest Lists allow users to customize their subscriptions according to topics they fancy like Art, Food, Games, Music, World Leaders...

Almost everybody in Facebook is familiar to Zynga, the company that provides popular social games such as Mafia Wars, Words With Friends, Cafe World, Cityville, and Farmville. However, not everybody plays these games, especially when it requires friends’ actions to further into the game. So if you are one of many Facebook users who find it frustrating that your friends do not share the interest of playing Zy...

A recently-released report from the Pew Research Center of Washington says that more and more Facebook users are pruning and restricting their friends list to maintain their privacy. They are beginning to realize that they do not have to tell everybody where they at, what they think, or what they do. About 63 percent of social network users say they have removed people from their list (or circles) of friends (or f...

Following what Twitter and Google+ have done, Facebook will be introducing “verified accounts” for its celebrity users, which is expected to roll out beginning today. The popular social networking site began testing a system that allows users with large number of subscribers to submit a government-issued ID to prove their identity. This enables the likes of journalists, entertainers, athletes, and othe...

Well isn’t this sweet, and geeky! Drake Martinet, an associate editor of All Things D, proposes to his girlfriend, Mashable’s vice president of marketing and communications Stacy Green, on Valentine’s Day in a way tech bloggers do best: by an infographic. Infographics are graphic visual representations of information and data. You can usually see such images everywhere from subway maps to space ...

Angry Birds has become one of the most popular games in digital times, having been downloaded over 500 million times in various gaming platforms. But in case you have not noticed, Angry Birds is absent on Facebook until yesterday. The Facebook version of this addictive physics-based puzzle game from Rovio is not a mere port of the mobile app, as it adds a few more features such as exclusive levels and all-new powe...

A recent study conducted by fellows of Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and Georgia Tech provide an insight on the sensibility of tweets and they conclude people who read posts on Twitter find only about one-third of tweets are worth the read. As part of its study, the researchers created a website called “Who Gives a Tweet?” that works similarly to “Hot or Not,” but for tweets. Users were promised fe...

After weeks of rumors and anticipation, Facebook has finally filed for its IPO (initial public offering). The uber-popular social networking site listed its offering size at $5 billion, although analysts say the IPO could value Facebook between $75 billion and $100 billion, which will make many of its employees millionaires in the process. The Wall Street Journal even speculates Facebook’s IPO, which is expe...

Do you wonder whether someone “unfriends” you on Facebook? While you can do so by looking through your friend list, but you might overlook the tiny details. Now, a script can be downloaded to give you a lowdown on who no longer is your Facebook friend. The Unfriend Finder notifies you when someone on Facebook writes you off their friend list. The script can be downloaded for free and works with a var...