Communications Major

Twitter says it's stretching the iconic 140-character limit on tweets, taking @names and images out of cap.

The aging of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and even Pinterest is more apparent than ever. More than 30% of teens have cited Instagram (owned by Facebook, btw) as their most important social network. Meanwhile, less than two-fifths of Facebook's adult users in the U.S. are in that ever-desirable 18- to 34-year-old demographic.

As Mark Zuckerberg reflects upon Facebook's first 10 years today, he's encouraging the community he built to do the same. Follow this link to create a short 1-minute video of your top moments on the world's leading social network: https://www.facebook.com/lookback

The videos are a bit cheesy, but are potent reminders that for many of us, Facebook has become a very normal way to document our daily lives.

What if you are from the generation that "never loses touch" with its past? As Facebook turns 10, we are reminded that it was initally lauched to college students - and then high school students. For those of us who have used the service to reconnect with our pasts, here's an interesting take on never having the experience to naturally drift away. For a generation coming of age on the social network, their only way to cut ties has been to sever them with the "unfriend" button.

The social network that was started by a couple of Harvard students in 2004 turns 10. Here's a look back at how the site has changed...and changed the way we communicate.

Our LinkedIn profiles often get short-shrift, or just plain neglected. Here's some tips on how to improve yours -- and why you should. 

As LinkedIn expands into countries where the oldest profession (prostitution) meets the newest (social media) - and where prostitution is legal - the social network has had to clarify its terms of use.

Self-censorship on Facebook: Typing five or more characters into your status box before deleting.

Men self-censored more than women -- particularly if they had large numbers of male friends. And other stats on reported social media restraint.

Deleting the name of a dead friend from your phone can feel like removing that person from the world.

While Ello goes after Facebook 1.0, Facebook is on version 4.0, thinking about new things.”

Everyone wants to be heard, but sometimes so much is too much. At what point does jaunty confidence metastasize into abject bragging?

It's hard to imagine the world without it -- but let's try....

When Facebook first launched 10 years ago—back when it was still called “Thefacebook”—there were no timelines, no videos, no notes, no “likes,” and there was no News Feed. In fact, there really wasn’t much to do except look at other people’s profiles. And you could poke people. Or, perhaps even...

You think you have a tough time sticking to one thing online? Check out Noah, a 17- minute film by Canadian film students Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg. And yes - there is a story here.