Tired of classmates from primary school requesting to be your friend on Facebook? Found yourself having a passive-aggressive argument via a comment thread on a blog or forum? Sick of seeing incessant drivel coming through on Twitter? Read the rest of my post Social netiquette and how to avoid *awkward* moments on the BCM blog.

Ben Shepherd is quoting the latest Nielsen Netview (April 2008) which states that in April Facebook has beaten Myspace in the battle for users here in Australia for the first time ever. April 2008 Facebook (2.646 million users) defeats Myspace (2.623 million users) Poor Rupert. Your youth fly trap is still cool, I guess. Let [...]

After the over analysis on blogs of the corporates’ social networking “wars” from last week. ‘Tis time to focus on the users, which is why I really love this Current TV video of what would happen in real life if a user was confronted by the online social networks for not logging in enough. “…you [...]

Online social networking etiquette is hard enough for people. Now it seems that online social networks need an etiquette guide for interacting with each other. Search engine Google has started up a new service called Friend Connect. It basically allows smaller sites to set up their own online social networks that pull profile data like [...]

For a few hours this week New York gossip blog Gawker noticed you could find out who has been viewing your profile or searching your name on Facebook. I captured a screenshot of my  stalkers  over-inquisitive friends below (have smudged out their names for cyber embarrassment reasons, I’m nice like that). ‘Twas certainly surprising to see the [...]

Facebook is like a gossipy friend with no interesting information. – Justin Feinstein