Authorities in Michigan have revealed that a woman from Comstock Park used Facebook to harass herself in an effort to frame up her former boyfriend.
According to MLive.com, 52-year-old Cheryl Nelson has admitted to using fake Facebook accounts which featured the personal information of her former boyfriend Kevin Haarsma to make it appear that the man’s new girlfriend was threatening her.
Nelson is facing charges of false report of a felony and unlawful posting of a message, the publication …

Several brands in specific industries are barely felt on Pinterest. Global brand firm Digitas and analytics suite Curalate have released an infographic that details brand engagement on Pinterest for three markets: fashion and retail, automotive and electronics.
The study found that 70 percent of brand engagement on Pinterest is user-generated, unlike Facebook and Twitter, where companies push campaigns using verified accounts and pages. At Pinterest, the community shares more personal …

During Facebook’s fourth quarter earnings report in January, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company has turned into a mobile company. And as if to quell doubters, its latest fiscal report only strengthened his claim.
Facebook, the world’s largest social networking company, had 751 million monthly active users as of the end of March this year.
The milestone is 54 percent higher than the first quarter of last year, said the company during its first quarter earnings report on …

When in the future you get yourself locked out of your Facebook account, you can get the keys from your trusted contacts.
Facebook has just launched Trusted Contacts, an account recovery feature that lets friends you choose verify your identity before giving you a security code to regain access to your account.
The feature was first named Trusted Friends and was piloted way back in 2011.
Using the feature, Facebook users will choose three to five Trusted Contacts to help them in case they are …

Warren Buffett is finally on Twitter using the handle @WarrenBuffett and the billionaire has stirred up a following spree.
According to estimates, Buffett gained a thousand followers per minute on Twitter. Currently, his follower count is at 269,018.
His first ever tweet was 20 hours ago and it simply said, “Warren is in the house.”
As of publication, that tweet already has 33,143 retweets and 9,102 favorites.
Warren is in the house.
— Warren Buffett (@WarrenBuffett) May 2, 2013

The …

UNICEF Sweden is candid but practical. The Swedish arm of the United Nations Children’s Fund has released a new TV commercial about what it thinks many people have forgotten: Facebook Likes don’t save lives.
The 40-second video, with nearly 80,000 views on YouTube, introduces a boy named Rahim, who lives with his younger brother in a slum area.
The 10-year-old kid’s brief message tells his fear that something bad may happen to his young sibling if he gets ill, just like their …

Using tweets from 50 million Twitter users, a happiness index measuring how the world feels in general can now be accessed online. This index, which shows a wavy line graph, can be accessed at www. hedonometer.

The proliferation of social media has interrupted the traditional work flow of several fields, only to entrench its roots and become a key part of most of them. And one of these fields is digital marketing.
In a post on Mashable, Seattle-based software provider Optify used an infographic to show how each digital marketer has his or her own way of using social media.
Optify content marketing manager Danie Pote told Mashable that the representation aims to arouse the sense of humor of digital …

 
Facebook has just been awarded a big win against typosquatters.
The U.S. District Court for Northern California awarded the social networking giant statutory damages amounting to $2,795,000 and the handover of 105 domains.
Typosquatters are people or organizations who register domain names similar to popular domain names.
Facebook recently launched a case against several typosquatters under the U.S. Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.
It appears that the world’s largest social …

It seems that women in the U.S. are more social than men if social media site usage is the basis.
According to this infographic, 71 percent of women while 62 percent of men use social media.
That is 129,987,341 social media users in the U.S. which is more people than all people currently in Japan.
Women seem to be fond of Twitter, Facebook and, which comes as no surprise, Pinterest.
READ: Use Pinterest For Business To Increase Traffic – And Sales – Through Your Site
Men seem to be fond of …