Stories by Kristin Burnham

Maybe it's the fear of rejection or the daunting prospect of a one-on-one with a boss, but one thing is clear: People don't like to negotiate.

Facebook's new Timeline design, the most drastic makeover to profiles yet, introduced a number of new features, including the cover photo: a large picture at the top of your page designed to let you enhance and personalize your new space.

LinkedIn this week updated a key feature that now produces personalized suggestions of people you might know and like to connect with.

As Facebook switches another wave of resistant users over to Timeline, I've noticed a number of questions--and misguided assumptions--popping up in my News Feed. These posts range from, "Warning! Facebook is making everything public when you switch!" to "Why can everyone see what I'm reading on The Washington Post?"

Back in September Facebook deployed Smart Lists, a feature that automatically groups your friends into lists such as work, school, family, city and acquaintances.

As the demand for enterprise collaboration continues to grow, more businesses are looking to internal social networks to manage workflow, foster collaboration and improve innovation.

Since making its Open Graph applications platform available two months ago, Facebook Timeline apps have grown in a big way: Today at the SXSW conference, the social networking company announced that nearly 3,000 Timeline apps are now available.

Facebook rolled out a new feature on Thursday called "Interest Lists," an aggregation tool that turns Facebook into a social, personalized feed for topics that you find interesting: tech news, sports, entertainment and more.

Last week, Google rolled out its new privacy policy, condensing into one more than 60 former privacy policies across Google products, such as Gmail, GChat, Picassa, Google+ and YouTube.

Facebook officially launched Facebook Messenger for Windows, a desktop client that lets you chat with and message your Facebook friends, view updates from your friends in the Ticker and receive notifications about actions such as new comments and photo tags. You don't need to be visiting Facebook.com to use Messenger.

Several months after Facebook first started rolling out Timeline to the public, the social network has formally announced Timeline's expansion to brand- and business-focused pages.

Social media privacy awareness is increasing among Americans, according to a new study. However in the battle of the sexes, women trump men when it comes to locking down the privacy of profiles.

Facebook enabled the amped-up security feature last year, and now LinkedIn is following suit with news that it will also support hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) browsing.

From privacy settings to customisation and more, here are six tips to set you on the right path with Facebook Timeline.

With a possible valuation of $US100 billion, Facebook's IPO filing could make a lot of people very, very rich (or richer). Here's a look at the breakdown of who could get what, from Mark Zuckerberg to Bono - yes, Bono.