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First and foremost, thanks for helping us get over the 35,000 'likes' on Facebook here on Hot 107-9. We were kinda proud of that fact until we saw the stat that Rihanna is getting 136,000 new likes...a day. With that kind of momentum, it was only a matter of time.

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I was reading an article in TheFrisky.com entitled 'You Should Be Banned From The Internet If.." In the original story TheFrisky listed 15 reasons, but I decided to go through all of them and pick the "Logan 10." For those of you who are unaware of the "Logan 10", it's my favorite 10 things from lists that have more than 10 items.

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Facebook finally settled the rumors on Wednesday. Through a partnership with Skype, Facebook is rolling out integrated video calling to the public beginning immediately.

The new integrated feature will not require the separate Skype client, but instead, just a touted "under 30 second wait" on your first use to install, call and chat.

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Across the country, you see this everyday. People are constantly checking their smartphones for e-mail, twitter, and facebook updates. With that said, has the Fear Of Missing Out, FOMO, gotten the best of you? Do you have to constantly keep-up with the social media sites, and do you feel the urge to know what is happening all of the time?

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After several prior failed attempts to challenge social media behemoth Facebook, Google introduced a new service on Tuesday that it hopes will finally do the trick.

Called the Google+ project, it’s currently only available to a select group of Google users — they’ll soon be able to invite others — and it will let people share and discuss status updates, photos and links, just like they do on Facebook.

But there’s one key difference: Google+ allows you to share with select groups — like co-workers, friends or the moms in your child’s playgroup — instead of with everyone. It features what it calls “circles,” which are small groups of friends based on how you know them. Google+ also offers group text messaging and video chat.

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We have all either seen or taken an embarrassing photo once or twice in our life, and it ends up on your facebook page. For many while it may be  a"joke," for others it may be costly when it comes to getting a job you'd really like to have. Reason being, the Federal Trade Commission has ruled that agencies are allowed to search your facebook when it comes to background checks for potential employers.

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We've all updated our Facebook and Twitter accounts with messages we've later regretted, but most of the time they're completely legal. Such wasn't the case for 20-year-old Eley London, a mother from Philadelphia who told Facebook she'd "pay a stack" for someone to kill her baby's father.

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The French government is notorious for banning the use of English words as a way of maintaining French language and culture.

However, a recent ruling by the French government, which now makes it illegal to speak the words "Facebook" or "Twitter" on television or radio newscasts, isn't as shocking as you might think.

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Staying in touch is more important than staying in smell.

A new survey from McCann Worldgroup of more than 6,000 people around the world found about half would be willing to give up their sense of smell over the ability to engage in social networking.

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An Israeli couple recently named their newborn daughter "Like," as in, the button you press when you enjoy a post on the popular social media site Facebook.

This is how the girl's father, Lior Adler, explained the name to the German press agency dpa:

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