Social Media

Buffalo Bills’ linebacker Kirk Morrison traded a 20-year-old Canadian business student with the same name as his to an NFL game experience in exchange for the Twitter handle @kirkmorrison.

Despite being called “social media,” sites such as Facebook and Twitter are often used by people who have little face-to-face interaction with one another — even if they’re in the same city. But a new social network called Nextdoor is hoping to change that.

Before Facebook, Twitter and the internet, how did people spread news to one another? We assume newspapers, talky pictures and the Victrola but we aren’t sure what any of those things are. Telephone poles were probably useful in getting out a message to the community. Espe ...

Being a zombie on Facebook seems a lot more appealing than being one in real life. And thanks to AMC, it’s super easy. In fact, all you have to do to get a highly-detailed zombie version of yourself is visit the Facebook page for the AMC series ‘The Walking Dead.’

Courtney Stodden, the 17-year-old child bride of 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchison, can’t keep her Facebook profile active. According to Stodden’s mom Krista Keller, Courtney has tried to maintain a Facebook fan page “eight or 10 times” and each one gets taken down without explanation. Keller’s mom calls this tactic “bullying” on the part of the social network.

Courtney Stodden, the 17-year-old bride of 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchison, has apparently had her Facebook page pulled. And it’s not the first time it’s happened.

Though it was once derided as a platform for oversharing geeks, Twitter‘s become so big amongst celebrities, we find ourselves surprised when a boldface name doesn’t have a corresponding Twitter handle. Be-Kangol’d movie star Samuel L. Jackson is the latest celeb to join the social network, and signed up with a little help from prolific tweeter Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday’s ‘Late Night.’

Are you one of the approximately 75 gazillion people who are addicted to Farmville, cluttering Facebook news feeds with posts about finding a pig or tending crops? Then you might be interested in the Farmville movie Hollywood is developing based on the popular game. Not content to wait, Jimmy Kimmel debuted a (fake) teaser trailer last night on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live.’

Get your crops ready, hayseeds — there might be a FarmVille movie coming. As one of the most popular video games probably ever, the scourge of Facebook is about to hit the silver screen thanks to screenwriters Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen.

Kim Kardashian can now say she has something in common with Katy Perry, President Obama, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga. On Monday, the reality star and denizen of the ranks of the famous-for-being-famous became just the fifth Twitter user ever to rack up 10 million followers.

Facebook announced a big overhaul of their user profile design at yesterday’s f8 developers conference. The redesign includes a chronological sorting of each user’s life in a feature they’ve dubbed the Timeline. The feature automatically sorts all of a user’s Facebook activity over time (so you’ll be able to easily access those embarrassing wall exchanges with your old exes) and offers the ability

Hell hath no fury like a scorned ghostwriter. So learned Mark Davidson, an “internet sales and marketing professional” with more than 56,000 followers. His bio also says he “write a lot of things to amuse myself and others” and that he sometimes has “deep thoughts.” Only it turns out he’s not the one writing the amusing things or having the deep thoughts — those are coming from an alleged staff o