Facebook has updated its controls for the News Feed, allowing users to dictate who they’d like to see stories from first.

Bombarded with status updates? Drowning in selfies? Suzanne Harrington on why she’s over digital bragging.

Snapchat has agreed to settle with the US Federal Trade Commission over charges that it deceived customers about the disappearing nature of messages sent through its service and that it collected users’ contacts without telling them or asking permission.

He’s the fresh face behind Facebook and worth an estimated €22bn.

Facebook – the project that began in a student’s dorm and went on to become one of the greatest internet success stories of all time – is celebrating its 10th birthday.

Internet forums can increase the risk of vulnerable teens committing suicide, a study has found.

Jessie J and James Arthur are set to support Justin Timberlake in Dublin.

Far from forgetting about making friends in real life, online relationships can be hugely beneficial for us, writes Eoin Whelan

THE KOOPLES, rather like Brand Beckham, shows that a gorgeous couple in love isn’t just enviable; it’s a concept that can sell clothes.

Canadian singer Amelia Curran hears sounds of home in the Irish accent. She talks to Ed Power

Joe Jonas says Taylor Swift's new song isn't about their relationship.

Singer Lily Allen announced today she is changing her professional name to Lily Rose Cooper.

Adele picked up a dozen gongs at the Billboard Music Awards less than a week after her triumph at the Ivor Novellos.

I Google myself, I confess.

Chart queen Adele’s Brits double caps a phenomenal but frustrating year for the star who has shattered sales records in the past 12 months.

Adele’s record-breaking Grammy success caps a phenomenal rise to fame for the Tottenham-born singer — thanks in part to a “rubbish relationship”.

Facebook, the social-networking website that began eight years ago in a university dorm, last night filed to raise $5bn (€3.8bn) in an initial public offering.

'X Factor' reject Kitty Brucknell has been accused of stealing someone else's life.

A STUDY of secondary school students has confirmed the most popular means of communication for young teenagers is the text message.

THE main Irish arm of social network game developer giant Zynga recorded pre-tax profits of just under $1 million (€728,000) on revenues of $70 million in its first year of operation in Ireland.

When a fresh-faced Amanda Knox arrived in Perugia four years ago, she was one of thousands of American students enjoying being young, free and single away from home.

A SOUTHERN California man was sentenced to six years in prison for infiltrating computers belonging to women and teenage girls where he found sexually explicit photos and threatened to put them online unless they provided him with more.

Michael Bolton is hoping to work with Adele.

An American man accused of sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users faces 40 years in prison, if found guilty.

New York: Google’s new social networking service may grow to claim 22% of online US adults in a year, passing Twitter and LinkedIn to be the second most used social site after Facebook, a survey found.

WHEN the English Defence League sprang to life two years ago, it had fewer than 50 members — a rough-and-tumble bunch of mostly white guys shouting from a street corner about what they viewed as uncontrolled Muslim immigration.

POP star Justin Timberlake is part of a group that will buy MySpace from News Corp, a bid to add some cool to a social network that has been losing it for some time.

The social media site MySpace has been sold for a reported $35m (€24m), mostly in stock.

ONLY two social networking sites protect the privacy of minors by default, an EU study has shown.

IT seems almost cruel to expect the parents of young children to take on another responsibility their own parents could not even have imagined.

Prosecutors asked a US judge to commit the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage that wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords to a federal facility where he can be evaluated by psychologists to determine whether he suffers from a mental defect that makes him incompetent to stand trial.

AN initial portrait of the man accused of shooting congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killing six others began to emerge yesterday.

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords remained heavily sedated and in a critical condition today as investigators sought to understand what motivated a gunman to carry out the assassination attempt in a rampage that left six people dead.

A US congresswoman was fighting for her life today after being shot in the head outside an Arizona supermarket as she met constituents.

Courtney Love is being sued over comments she made on twitter.

COURTNEY Love was very upset.

Social networkers have a new tool to prevent them from posting ill-advised late-night messages on sites like Facebook and Twitter.

APPLE has unveiled new iPod media players, has added social-networking features to its iTunes software and introduced a service that lets users rent shows and movies.

O2 Ireland added 5,200 new customers in the second quarter of this year, to reach 1.711 million customers at the end of June, the company said today.

FACEBOOK has joined forces with a British child protection agency to create a “panic button” application on its site, it was announced yesterday, as the social networking giant finally gave in to calls to do more to protect youngsters online.

A 40-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with the murders of three Bradford women.

Another of Jesse James’ alleged mistresses has apologised to Sandra Bullock, it has emerged.

Lee Ryan is to release more albums with Blue.

Ricky Gervais has revealed he decided to lose weight after gorging himself on 11 sausages in one sitting.