"Unfriend" is now officially a word
The New Oxford American Dictionary named "unfriend" the word of the year - beating out such other social media terms like "hashtag" and "sexting". (There's always 2010, right?) Oxford defined "unfriend" as a verb that means to remove someone as...

Are you a Twitter "meformer" or an "informer"?
It seems like we have a hard time forgetting about the "I'' in Twitter. That was the conclusion by two Rutgers professors who studied the content of 3,000 tweets sent by 350 Twitter users. The communication and information professors, Mor...

Be careful when putting co-workers in a company Twitter List
Twitter recently introduced a new tool, called Lists, to help users organize the massive amount of information broadcast through the network. Lists are a way for you to categorize users. You can create a public List for the world to...

Facebook's "suggestions" show limits of social media
Since Faceboook made a few changes recently, active users have probably noticed a lot more "suggestions'' prompting you to interact with people you haven't paid attention to for a long time -- and maybe aren't even around anymore. That's been...

Broward County considering social media policy
My WLRN-Miami Herald colleague Joshua Johnson did this story on Broward County considering new rules for employees & social media - take a listen. These days it seems the most popular means of communication, are also free: social networking sites...