With Redmond-based Microsoft having had a rather successful year in most areas, it has now launched its social network effort, So.cl.

It’s Facebook infographic time again, and the latest one covers the possibility that Facebook, Twitter and other online social networks might just be able to help you land your next job, believe it or not.

When you think ‘social network’, the first sites popping into your mind would probably be Facebook, Twitter or Google+ – maybe even those now derelict platforms of yesteryear such as Bebo and MySpace.

Foursquare initially found its niche with the location-based ‘check-in’ model, allowing users to see friends’ hunts, whilst sharing their own locations and places visited. Facebook, with all its might and hundreds of millions of active users, tried and failed with its own integrated version, which has since been scrapped.

If you have access to Timeline, the new profile feature Facebook has been rolling out in waves, you may have noticed something odd when modifying or adding events and statuses along your digital life. When clicking on that little pencil hovering to the right of your friend’s posts, you are given a few options. You’ll see the standard “delete post”, “report as Spam” and “Hide from Timeline” options, but now a new selection has surfaced: “Change Date”.

Social networking site Facebook appears to be rolling out a restructured format to the way its users view ads, which are now being placed atop the sidebar on the right-hand side of the page.

People take privacy on Facebook very, very seriously, and for good reason. You don’t want people seeing things that you thought were private, or a larger group of people seeing something that you though was only visible to a select few.

It’s been a long time coming, but it is finally here: Facebook for iPad has been officially announced and has been made available for download. Get the download link after the jump!

There’s seldom a shortage of a few dedicated techies on standby ready to dissect and examine the nitty gritty interior of the GUI that the average Joe downloads and installs. A little look under the bonnet of Facebook’s new exclusively-IM app for iOS and Android reveals the hallmarks of something even more significant lurking around inside.

If you use Facebook on your mobile device, you might be a frequent user of its messaging service. If so, you might become the newest fan of Facebook’s just-released standalone messaging app for both Android and iPhone.

The Google+ iOS app has been updated today to support the previously “missing” iOS devices, the iPod touch and the iPad, just weeks after the original iPhone-only app was unveiled. All iOS users are urged to download this update as soon as possible from their device’s App Store or iTunes.

On Wednesday, Randi Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, stepped down from Facebook in order to start her own Web 2.0 company. While both her and the company are in good terms with each other, this news came as a shock to many given that Randi had been with Facebook for 6 years.