I don't use Facebook. I'm not technophobic — I'm a geek. I've been using email since the early 1990s, I have accounts on hundreds of services around the net, and I do software development and internet ...

It’s a dark winter evening, and I’m about to drive 10 minutes to pick up 8 over-ripe bananas from a neighbor. As I grab my coat, my husband wonders aloud whether I have lost my marbles. “You’re ...

Facebook makes my mother miserable. She knows it, and she's disgusted with herself for nevertheless continuing to spend time scrolling through its endless updates. But I wish she knew that this ...

I had an account on Facebook for 11 years before it was suspended. I used it for my business marketing and to stay in touch with friends. Almost a year later I'm grateful I was banned. "Your Facebook ...

You see, during the period of time I was being harrassed online for being a woman with opinions (perilous stuff), I went to log in to Facebook as usual and received ...

There's this great Andy Warhol quote you've probably seen before: "I think everybody should like everybody." You can buy posters and plates with pictures of Warhol, looking like the cover of a Belle & ...

There are many things you cannot post on Facebook. You can’t make terrorist threats. You cannot incite a riot. You cannot upload pictures of humans having sex with wombats. You definitely cannot post ...

If someone built a tool that made Facebook less addictive—a tool that allowed users to benefit from Facebook’s positive features while limiting their exposure to its negative ones—how would Facebook ...

My editor, Michelle, was at a birthday party for her son's friend recently, when the mom mentioned a company she liked called Joymode. Minutes later, an ad for Joymode appeared on Michelle’s Facebook ...

Clearly, researchers love Facebook, even if some of the rest of us are ambivalent. A 2012 survey of social science papers related to the social network turned up 412 separate studies, and there have ...