After ceasing its social networking operations last year, Multiply.com has revealed that the site will totally shut down on May 6.
A banner which says “Multiply will be closed as of 6 May 2013” is now prominently displayed on the homepages of both the Philippine and Indonesian sites of the company.
Multiply decided to close its social networking operations and move its headquarters from Florida to Jakarta, Indonesia last year and evolve to become a pure e-commerce website.
However, it seems …

The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project released a recent report which stated that social media sites have now become more active avenues for political activity. In fact, the increase for such activity in Twitter and Facebook has been tremendous when comparing the years 2008 and

Twitter needs to improve its security tools. The Associated Press was hacked and a false tweet caused the White House to explain, and the stock market to drop 150

According to Kasmiah Mustapha of New Straits Times, bullying is the ugly side of social media, causing adolescents to be

Did you know that there is a social network for mustache-loving people? It is named “Stache Passions” and was set up with the goal of helping mustache aficionados connect online.
There is also nclüder which is the social network if you quickly need friends. According to this infographic, the social network “blows privacy out of the water by instantly connecting you with every user in the network…all 12.3 billion of them.”
People have probably heard of the popular social networks like …

Research shows that more than 33 percent of employers nowadays use a search engine or social media sites to look up the names of possible future employees, also known as online

Social networking powerhouse Facebook has its eyes focused towards mobility, with employees forced to use only mobile devices for one whole week.
Facebook product manager Josh Williams said the social network’s ramped up efforts in mobility is enough reason to shutdown access to the website from within the company’s offices.
At the recently ended SXSW conference, Williams divulged and shared the experience that forced him and several Facebook product managers to work internally …

A new Facebook data center will be built in Altoona, Iowa. The new facility will help Facebook increase its computing power; useful given the fact that there is an increasing use of Facebook on smart phones that challenge the social networking sites

Social media has been used by many users to know more about the Boston Marathon bombings as the case clarifies these past few days. But it is disappointing that social media has also become a source of wrong information, upsetting many

During the last couple of months, we here at Social Barrel have written numerous articles about Facebook, teens and the trend of declining popularity of the social network in this demographic.
READ:
Facebook Is Over, Teenagers Say So
Teenagers Getting Bored with Facebook; Study
Facebook Declining in Popularity Among Teens; Study
That’s according to various sources like the Pew Research Center, Piper Jaffray, The Verge, The New York Times and Facebook itself (one, two).
According to this …