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The age of Big Brother is truly upon us. Last week the Federal Trade Commission approved a company called Social Intelligence, which touts itself as a modern way for firms to screen potential employees.

The brains at web development and design company Go-Globe created a stunning infographic that breaks down the internet activity happening every minute of the day on sites like Twitter, Google, Facebook, and Skype. And it’s kind of amazing.

At a press conference Tuesday, Tracy Morgan apologized for homophobic comments he made during a recent stand-up performance in Nashville, Tennessee. Our own Rich Ledoux had done a write up on his thoughts about Tracy's 'incident' in Nashville that you can read right here. Speaking alongside Kevin Rogers, the Facebook user who first made Morgan’s comments public, the Emmy-nominated ’30 Rock’ star s

This week was flourishing with viral videos, but we managed to narrow hundreds down to a single top 10. (Confession: We may have had some help from our clap-o-meter.) Among the privileged were a real-life re-enactment of the popular mobile game, 'Angry Birds,' put on by T-Mobile in Barcelona. Even with the popularity of the iPhone and Android game, we were still surprised when the video blew past

Turns out, the girl who claimed to have a tattoo of 152 friends faces onto her arm was just pulling a fast one on us. The tattoo was merely a transfer as the ink can be washed away after a few days. The video of her receiving the tattoo even made it on CNN...

A Netherlands woman has taken her friendship -- and social media -- to a whole new level after she tattooed 152 of her Facebook friends onto her arm. The tattoos cover her entire right arm, from armpit to wrist, and have since been dubbed by the woman as both her "MySpace wall" and "social tattoo." This story turned out to be a bit of a fake

The French government is notorious for banning the use of English words as a way of maintaining French language and culture. However, a recent ruling by the French government, which now makes it illegal to speak the words "Facebook" or "Twitter" on television or radio newscasts, isn't as shocking as you might think.

Staying in touch is more important than staying in smell. A new survey from McCann Worldgroup of more than 6,000 people around the world found about half would be willing to give up their sense of smell over the ability to engage in social networking.

Facebook changed something again & failed to let you know. Look at your URL address (the top box on your screen.) If you see "http" instead of "https", you DO NOT have a secure session & can be HACKED.

An Israeli couple recently named their newborn daughter "Like," as in, the button you press when you enjoy a post on the popular social media site Facebook. This is how the girl's father, Lior Adler, explained the name to the German press agency dpa: "If once people gave Biblical names and that was the icon, then today is one of the most famous icons in the world...

UPDATE: STILL NOT FRIENDS WITH TOM JORDAN - This is going to come out wrong but I don't 'friend request' a lot of people. I don't have to because I have enough Facebook friends. Who the hell actually knows 1,300+ people? However, when someone I KNOW...someone I WORK WITH....someone I SHARE AN OFFICE WITH...someone who's FRIENDS WITH COMPETING RADIO STATIONS' staff members doesn't respond to a 'fri

I gotta say, I'm with a lot of women on this one. Read this interesting article about how women really feel about their Facebook friends. I found myself nodding along in my head as I read this. If you're one of my Facebook friends, I'm not talking about you (I love all your interesting thoughts and pictures). -Rich