Social Networking

After teasing the feature in April, Facebook is finally making good on its promise to let users unsend messages.

Facebook is rolling out a new version of Messenger that reduces the number of tabs with an eye toward simplifying its popular chat app.

Google will shut down its unpopular Google Plus social-networking service after a data leak compromised the personal data of 500,000 users.

Facebook said nearly 50 million user accounts had been compromised in a data breach that involved possible takeover of user accounts.

Freezing your credit is now free, thanks to a new federal law. Here's why you should take advantage of this opportunity.

Facebook is facing contempt-of-court charges over its refusal to decrypt Messenger voice conversations, according to a report.

A bug on the LifeLock website let you look up email addresses of any of its subscribers with a few trivial number substitutions.

Multiple reports say Samsung phones using T-Mobile as the carrier have been spontaneously sending texts and photos to other users.

iMessage has some competition. Now, Android users can text from their computers as well.

Facebook confirmed that it gave Chinese mobile-phone makers access to user data so they could develop device-specific Facebook apps.

The NY Times said Facebook gave Apple, Microsoft and Samsung access to user accounts, but the real story is complicated and a bit dull.

Twitter said some user passwords were left 'unmasked' and that you should change yours, though we don't know how serious this really is.

While it works to shore up its privacy features, Facebook also plans to introduce new capabilities to its social network, including one aimed at helping you find your soulmate.

The psychology researcher at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica scandal said Facebook 'gave him the data' of thousands of users.

Social-media, ad platforms profit from fake news and online disinformation, and aren't doing enough to combat it, an expert said.

Google's big plan to compete with Apple's iMessage on Android is Chat, a technology coming to Android Messages this year.

The instant mass communications of social media will erase national boundaries and create new divisions, two experts say.

It takes less than an hour online to gather enough public information to steal a person's identity. Here's what not to do online.

Mark Zuckerberg faced a series of questions from Congress, but many showed an ignorance about technology. Here's what they should have said.

Several congressmen told Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that his industry would soon be regulated because it could no longer be trusted.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled by U.S. senators about Cambridge Analytica, Russian election interference and political censorship.

The Facebook Android app logs some users' calls and texts, including times, durations and dates of each call.

Aleksandr Kogan, blamed by both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica for mishandling user data, worked with Facebook on a massive research study.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on CNN to explain his company's role and response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

After 5 days, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally responded to a scandal in which an outside firm collected data on 50 million users.

Facebook's security head may be out as the company faces a huge crisis. Here's why his departure will make things worse for Facebook users.

Leading identity-protection services don't offer two-factor authentication, which would greatly help customers protect their personal data.

At CES 2018, McAfee unveiled its own identity-protection service as well as a partnership with D-Link to protect a smart home.

Twitter account hijackers are taking over accounts with the tease of a goofy video about a baby and a dog.

Verizon said that Yahoo's 2013 data breach involved not 1 billion user accounts, but 3 billion -- every single Yahoo account at the time.