According to Facebook, the social networking site has hit one billion users “using Facebook actively each month” as of September 14. While there are users who create secondary accounts for work, as jokes, or because they don’t understand how fan pages work, it’s mind boggling to think that nearly a seventh of the world is logging in. [...]

I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg sees the irony of strangers following minute details of his personal life, or if his transition to celebrity is what fueled his view, expressed in 2010, that privacy is no longer a social norm. Of course the world hasn’t just discovered Mark Zuckerberg: there have been interviews, news articles, and [...]

Today Facebook announced that it acquired Instagram for $1 billion. This is six days after Instagram expanded the platform of its quirky photosharing app from it’s former iOS exclusive status to be also available on Android phones. For those unfamiliar with the app, Instagram is an app that allows users to apply preset filters to images snapped [...]