It’s either a simple yet effective way to appreciate the passage of time – or a reminder to do your own thing without pausing for explanation ...

Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s founder and CEO, was recently reported to have questioned how the site 'incentivizes people to want (the number of likes on their posts) to go up.' He also said that 'he was not ...

Facebook is killing off two external social plugins, the FB Like button and the FB Comment button. Credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImages It's the end of a major ...

His comments came as social networking site Bebo, which has more than eight million young users, announced that it would be adopting the button. Gamble challenged other social networking sites to ...

The internet wouldn't be the same without the Like button, the thumbs-up icon that Facebook and other online services turned into digital catnip. Like it or not, the button has served as a creative ...

Panic buttons may be installed on social networking sites to enable children to alert website operators when inappropriate material is posted on the sites. Some 140 firms and other groups are ...

Just days after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social network was looking at implementing a way to dislike posts and show empathy, scammers have already begun spreading phishing attacks and ...

Karrie Morton is a freelance writer and social reformer where she writes about things that inspires or gets notified in the society. She has been writing about current hot topics such as technology, ...

Unlike most of the social media challenges that emerge, this is one that you can actually try at home without risking your life. A new internet craze has emerged and all it involves is touching your ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...