social media

Under a new California law, it is illegal for employers or admissions officers to require applicants to hand over their social media usernames and passwords.

Gizmodo's managing editor Brian Barrett talks his tech predictions for 2013, and Lettrs.com offers a new way to trade old school correspondence online.

A third of 18- to 24-year-olds do.

A new patent for Xbox Kinect might be trying to watch you for copyright owners, and users are getting tired of politics on social media, even though they're still posting about it.

It's been called the "Wikipedia of rap", and it just got $15 million dollars in venture capital funding. RapGenius.com is a rising star website which allows people to post annotations on the meanings behind song lyrics.

Myspace has a slick new look, according to a new promotional video–but can that bring it back to its former social media glory?

The personal computer is dead, and more on the future of tech from New York City

But they do retweet them on anything else. Social media research indicates that voters might be in the mood for a broader discussion.

Mitt Romney's Twitter account had a recent spike in new followers, leading to speculation that his campaign had bought fake followers. Is this really a business?

Television ratings are up for the 2012 Olympics, even with so-called spoilers all over the Internet. Blogger and author Jeff Jarvis talks about NBC's failures to keep up with the Twittersphere.