Share Facebook has been in the news a lot lately, sometimes making good headlines, other times bad, and still other times it’s gotten ugly. The good news was actually great- Facebook announced that it had reached 500 million registered users. This is especially impressive since two years ago they had only 100 million users. The [...]

Share Yesterday Facebook announced yesterday a few major updates to its site. Among the changes: Filters on a left hand column to control which updates you’re viewing. Real-time streaming of updates; before the updates were approximately every 10 minutes. Update question changes from ‘what are you doing?’ to ‘what’s on your mind?’ Highlights on the [...]

Share Yesterday was Facebook’s birthday. At five years old the site has accumulated 150 million active users worldwide; an achievement that is incredible considering that’s up from 98 million in 2008. This tremendous growth has allowed Facebook to displace places MySpace as the leading social media site in terms of total worldwide users, although MySpace [...]