The more time college students spend on Facebook, the more likely they are to feel jealous toward their romantic partners, leading to more time on Facebook searching for additional information that will further fuel their jealousy, in an escalating cycle that may become addictive, according to a study reported in CyberPsychology & Behavior, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Nearly everyone is facebooking these days, from your weird old uncle Fred to your highschool sweetheart. Indeed everyone you ever knew finds you in the world of social networking. Some of us have reservations about putting our whole lives online, but most of us have given in and done it. But what about those children born today who will grow up on Facebook? Permanently plugged in to the social network?

With so many social networking platforms available today for marketing your small business, it may be tempting to jump in and try them all. Unfortunately, that would probably end up being difficult for most small businesses to manage going forward, mostly due to limited time and resources. Although services such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are all becoming popular marketing options for small businesses, the one platform that seems to be generating the most buzz for business use is Twitter.

There has never been a better opportunity for online retailers and holiday gift shoppers to come together and meet in a new online social networking place such as www.Reizit.com, which helps to raise awareness about better products and directs consumers to the pages where products and goods are sold.

Happiness really does rub off—a person's happiness depends on the happiness of others with whom they are connected, finds research published on bmj.com today.

A laugh can be infectious. You don't need a sophisticated study to tell you that. But does this happy contagion vanish as quickly as a smile?

Traffic to social networks comprise almost 40% of the mobile Web according to Opera Software's "State of the Mobile Web" report, published today. The results both show healthy growth in the numbers of consumers accessing the Web from their mobile devices and provide insight into aggregate consumer preferences when browsing from their phones.

New research shows the surprising paths taken by forwarded messages through the Internet

Human diseases and social networks seem to have little in common. However, at the crux of these two lies a network, communities within the network, and farther even, substructures of the communities.

Social network giant Facebook agreed to make changes to its hotly contested Beacon ad service today, following a public outcry over its voyeuristic nature.

Pepperidge Farms is the newest company that has launched a social media strategy called Art of the cookie. However, Pepperidge Farms - I can't find the social

Users Gain Ability to Share their Actions from 44 Participating Sites with their Friends on Facebook