Hey Hubzers, The blue-bird has informed us that  new Twitter is taking over this week and old Twitter will retire: “If you’re currently using Old Twitter, we want to let you know that you’ll be upgraded to New Twitter this week.” If you have avoided new Twitter since it’s launch last year, here is what you can expect: Design The n...

Hey Hubzers, Facebook’s 750 million user base is a diverse population of unique profiles: doctors, students, pets, and even unborn children. Expectant parents have taken to the social network, creating profiles for their favorite fetuses and shooting out obstetric statuses to keep friends and family posted on the delivery. These profiles are ...

Hey Hubzers, On Friday President Obama, known on Twitter as “BO”, launched his twitter fueled campaign to settle on the debt ceiling by urging his 9.5 million followers to tweet at Republican congressmen using the hashtag #Compromise: The time for putting party first is over. If you want to see a bipartisan #compromise, let Congress kno...

Hey Hubzers, The Google+ growth spurt is slowing down according to a report from Experian Hitwise. The report found that both traffic and average time spent on Google+ fell in the U.S. visits declined 3% from 1.86 million total visits in a week to 1.79 million average time spent on Google+ declined 10% from 5 minutes and 50 seconds to 5 minutes and...

George Bronk was living in a Sacramento suburb taking care of his parents; his free-time was supplemented by scanning Facebook profiles for targets and their password recovery clues. From December 2009 until September 2010, The 24-year old was taking over e-mail accounts, and Facebook profiles, changing the passwords, and searching through victim...

Hey Hubzers, Social media has seen many a meme, one you may remember is the “Rickroll”. A “Rickroll” is a typical entry-level hoax, bait and switch: a  hyperlink is said to be about a relevant topic but the link actually directs the clicker to Rick Astley’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up”. BAM! You...

Hey Hubzers, Google+ requires users to sign up via their Gmail accounts. Initially I thought this would be a problem in acquiring new users when it finally jumped out of beta, but it appears that Google has created a take-over strategy in order to usher the world in through the Google pearly gates and sign-up for Gmail. The whole affair is oozing w...

Hey Hubzers, Social Networking demands privacy. When Facebook rolled out default facial-recognition software, there was a great deal of concern from the user base– 750 million strong. Privacy advocates demanded user control over the facial-recognition software and raged against the lack of notification. The technology works as a tagging sugge...