I've just attended the Facebook F8 conference and it's been absolutely amazing seeing the new features that are coming in Facebook. This isn't what I'm going to talk about in this post but I will digress briefly. Instead of having one gigantic wall of posts, photos and likes all separated by a date stamp, Facebook are now about to release timelines. It makes organizing and sharing our lives so much easier. ...

Have you ever wondered how some posts appear as the first item of your top news compared with others? What makes one post higher or more important than another? Is it because more people "like" their post or more people are commenting on their post? Well if you're new to Facebook, there are two types of news feed - top news and most recent. Most recent is real time feeds of what your friends, groups and fan ...

We all know the power of Facebook but what about the power of Twitter? How much influence can one single 140 character tweet cause? Well here are some twitter horror stories. I am Spartacus 27 year old English trainee accountant Paul Chambers' life was shattered all because of a single tweet. He had met a girl online and had planned a trip to Northern Ireland to meet her. He was worried that the flight from ...