Google+ has a lot of catching up to do against Facebook, especially in one key metric: time spent.
According to Nielsen’s latest study, Google+ visitors hung around for 6 minutes and 47 seconds on average in March, while Facebook visitors spent 6 hours and 44 minutes on average during the same period.
The average time spent on Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site with more than one billion members, is down from the average 7 hours and 9 minutes visitors spent in …

Facebook has another reason to celebrate this year: the world’s largest social network has made it into the Fortune 500 list.
The social networking company only needed nearly nine years after launch to break through the illustrious list of U.S. companies.
Excluding spun-off companies, Facebook is the fastest company in history to enter the Fortune 500 list after it went public.
The previous titleholder was Google, as it made the list 16 months after its initial public offering.
Facebook …

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 …

People give their usernames and passwords to their dates, read each other’s personal emails and messages, review their partner’s browsing history, post sexy pictures and intimate details online – clearly, the Internet now holds the third wheel in relationships.
According to a Valentine’s Day study by research firm Abine, the Internet now watches people as they themselves unfold their romantic lives online.
Abine privacy analyst Sarah Downey says love can make people go crazy, so much so …

Global PR firm Weber Shandwick has released a new study revealing the online sociability of CEOs of the most prominent world companies, as it stunningly increased during the last two years.
Two-thirds (66 percent) of the CEOs from the top 50 companies worldwide got involved with online activities in 2012, as opposed to 36 percent in 2010. (Weber Shandwick conducted one of the first studies about the social engagement of CEO in 2010.)
Leslie Gaines-Ross, chief reputation strategist of Weber …

While Twitter has long become a globally accessible social network, Israeli businesses still consider advertising on the micro-blogging site a surreal destination.
Mobile phone advertisements last year pulled in an estimated $6.43 billion worth of investments worldwide. With Twitter offering 140-character SMS-like tweets, it has become a key platform for advertising on mobile devices – most Twitter users access their accounts through smartphones and tablets.
Mobile phone advertising in the …

LinkedIn’s user base is now 200 million strong, as worldwide expansion yielded twice its membership in just over a year, according to an official blog post on Wednesday, January 9, by the world’s largest social networking site for professionals.
Deep Nishar, Senior Vice President for Products and User Experience at LinkedIn, wrote in the post that the new figure is a significant and stirring juncture for LinkedIn.
The executive added that this milestone shows more than just a statistic, …

Photo-sharing service provider Instagram recently came under fire after a proposal to change its terms of service, which would have given the firm free will to include user-generated images in advertisements without the owner’s consent. After receiving an overwhelming amount of backlash and reportedly losing a quarter of its total users worldwide, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom eventually backpedaled and removed the new language from its terms.
With many former Instagram users still fraught with …

Major companies have finally allowed social networking sites to enter their restricted computer networks, says usability experts.
Jakob Nielsen, principal of the research firm Nielsen Norman Group, revealed during its 13th annual Intranet Design Contest that the world’s top company intranets are gradually adopting the use of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social networks on their homepages.
Social features similar to Facebook services started to move in on company intranets in 2009, …

Cats and cat owners, and people who love cats, now have a social network made especially for them: Catmoji.
The recently-launched social network for cats looks like Pinterest and is literally an overload of cat photos – which is great for people who love cats.
The site features browsing through cat photos tagged emotions like “sad”, “surprise” and the like.
Founded by cat-lovers Matthew Phiong and Koekoe Loo who hail from Malaysia, Catmoji aims to become the “Facebook for …