If Facebook is starting to take over your life, maybe your genes are partly to blame.
Researchers from UC San Diego and Harvard University have shown that certain aspects of a person’s social network – how many people consider that person a friend, the likelihood that two of a person’s friends are themselves friends, and how [...]

Tags: Facebook, heritability, social networks, twins

Ever since the social media site Facebook allowed users to develop third-party applications, there has been an explosion of various quizzes, icons, and virtual gifts that users can add to each others’ profiles. In addition to the various LOLcats, zombies, and werewolves that permeate Facebook these days, users of the site can now send [...]

Tags: Facebook, Genome Alberta, social networking