Sweet, docile old man Rupert Murdoch is having a lovely time on Twitter, keeping his merry band of followers entertained with tales of his daily exploits, including why buying MySpace was one of his Worst Ever Decisions, the silly fool.

In a message on the site he admitted that there was nothing in the purchase that had gone right but at least he'd learnt a few life lessons along the way.

"Many questions and jokes about My Space. Simple answer - we screwed up in every way possible, learned lots of valuable expensive lessons," he wrote, with refreshingly candid honesty.

Expensive isn't even close: he bought MySpace for $580m in 2005 just a year before Facebook launched and within five years was selling the company for a paltry $35m, a staggering loss of $545m.

What Sneak is more interested in, though, is a Tweet that appears to show Murdoch sent a personal message to Twitter by mistake. How else do you explain the cryptic message, "Jack. Tokyo sounds great but be careful of that full moon".

The full moon? Why, is this Jack character a werewolf of some kind? Or is the media mogul perhaps a closet fan of Japanese author Haruki Murakami?

We can only hope this is indeed what happened and that in future a more racy, or indeed, incriminating text is sent to the wrong location.

Google owns the search market. This is well known and is why the firm releasing information on the most searched for terms is an annual event that provides the best snap-shot into what occupied the world's attention in a given year.

As it turns out it is mainly celebrities, which is not surprising really. Yet Sneak was surprised to discover that in Blighty, the fifth most searched for term on Google was 'Google'.

Aside from the dangers of destroying the internet by Googling Google, is it not a bit odd that so many people are searching for the very thing they are already using?

Sure, there must be some legitimate reasons to Google the firm itself, but Sneak suspects there's something amiss here.

What could well be happening is not-too-smart internet users are searching for Google from the corner search boxes provided on browsers such as Firefox, not realising that it is Google.

What is worse, though, is that the world's most popular sites are the most popular searches too, including Facebook in number one, YouTube in two, the BBC in six and Amazon in seven, which is odd if you think about.

All of these sites have some of the most recognisable URLs on the planet and it is highly likely that most people will have the address stored in their URL search bar on their browsers and so could just go there direct with a few keystrokes.

Or, better yet, use the handy bookmarks tool bar function (best served in Firefox) to create a nifty list of your favourite sites so you don't have to clog up what would be an otherwise interesting list with searches that make the UK look like a nation of morons.

Sneak isn't too hot on world politics - he hasn't really got the time in between trolling Justin Bieber fans and making hilarious Downfall videos - but even he knew that the grandson of barmy North Korean despot Kim Jong-il appearing on Facebook was odd.

But, yes, it's true, Kim Han-sol has apparently been found on the site complete with wacky photos and flirtatious messages from a young lady friend - no doubt they poke regularly.

That the direct descendant of a man who runs a nation according to slavish obedience to the state, where no dissent is tolerated and no independent thought cultivated, is on Facebook must surely make for some awkward family dinner times.

Or does it? Facebook is a sort of North Korean state in some ways - all changes are enforced on the population with no heed given to their views, the leader is fairly unfussed by issues such as privacy and even the colour scheme is somewhat totalitarian.

However, the fact that Han-sol asked his Facebook friends whether they prefer communism or democracy (cool kid!) and himself picked democracy - "You are no grandson of mine!" - suggests he may be a more modern man than his grandfather.

Then again, perhaps Mr Jong-il is just mellowing in his old age and doesn't want his grandson to be as "ronery" as he has been all his life.

Facebook has often been pilloried by security experts keen to point out the potential pitfalls of clicking on dodgy links, downloading malicious third-party apps or coming a cropper thanks to identity thieves.

Well, now there's another risk. If you're a) really stupid and b) unlucky in love, take note.

Reports emerged courtesy of that paragon of journalistic integrity the Daily Mail of a mother of two who ended up on a date from hell after meeting a guy on Facebook.

Apparently, 23 year-old Leah Gibbs had planned a quiet night in with a DVD - strange for a first date but, hey, maybe that's how girls do things in Tylorstown, South Wales.

What she got was a lot more, however, as 21 year-old Adam Minton asked her to drive him to a shopping district, whereupon he jumped out of the car, only to return five minutes later with a rather panicked look on his face.

She then drove back to his house but "as his personality had changed and he had become rude towards her, she decided the date was over". The police then arrived and arrested them both.

Gibbs was subsequently released, but it emerged that her beau had threatened a cashier with a large kitchen knife and run off with £250.

Now, let this be a cautionary tale to any girl looking for love on Facebook. Thar be nought but social misfits and violent offenders on that tharrr site.

The bookish geeks at the Oxford English Dictionary have announced that 'retweet' and 'sexting', words casually bandied about on Twitter and mobile phones, are now so common as to be worthy of a place in the hallowed book.

Sneak is pleased to see this, although while he was aware that 'retweet' means repeating someone's message on Twitter, he wasn't quite so au fait with the term 'sexting' until he undertook some horrific Google searches to arrive at his own definition:

"Sexting [verb] pronounced: sex-ting. The act of electronically distributing pictures of ones intimate areas to a potential mate via the medium of mobile or electronic communications. Usually undertaken by 11-14 year-old chavs or US politicians. Used in a sentence: Rob and Sandra fell in love after sexting one another on their iPhones."

It's not a huge surprise that these terms have made it into the OED as the growth of mobile communications and social networks has given rise to a wealth of jargon such as '@reply' and 'follow Friday' on Twitter, and 'poke' and 'like' on Facebook.

Other notable entries into the OED were 'auto-correct', 'cyberbullying' and 'woot'.

Another benefit of this, aside from enriching the glorious English language, is a few new words for Scrabble games with the family. Lol!

As London returns to normal following the riots last week, the police are busy rounding up those who participated in the violence and disorder, with technology aiding in any way it can.

Sneak was particularly pleased to see one oik get his comeuppance thanks to a nifty bit of open source software installed on a Macbook Pro which was stolen from an information security worker/hacker called Greg Martin.

The hapless moron was tracked by the software from Prey Project so that once he logged on to the device with a new user account and started browsing, it was only a matter of time before swift, sweet justice was delivered.

The clincher was when he logged into Facebook, enabling Martin to see his name, location and stupid drunken photos.

Soon the boys in blue (the Met, not the Smurfs, just to be clear) were on their way to the looter's lair and before you could say "Steve Jobs" the device was returned to its owner.

Aw, Sneak loves a happy ending.

In a rapid about-turn, Mark Zuckerberg has reopened access to his Google+ account.

On Wednesday, Zuckerberg changed the settings on his Google+ account so that the general public could no longer see how many followers he had, an ironic move for someone so keen on his customers sharing their data. This meant that the Facebook king dropped out of the Social Statistics rankings completely, even though he had been in the number one slot previously.

However, Zuckerberg has overnight relaxed the privacy settings on his Google+ account and is back at the top of the rankings.

No explanation has been given by the Facebook chief as to the change. But Sneak has a feeling that the many raised eyebrows over Zuckerberg's sudden desire for privacy while still collecting stacks of data on Facebook users might have been the catalyst.

The Google executives who had disappeared off the list have also reappeared.

Earlier today, Social Statistics posted an update about the change: "Yesterday Mark Zuckerberg, along with several Google employees, closed off his profile so their numbers weren't visible anymore. Looks like today they reversed that setting. This completely reshuffles the top 100, again."

Still, Zuckerberg looks like the winner in all this, gaining 50,000 new followers since 12 July, up from 135,000 to 185,000 as of midday 14 July. However, he's ditched the 70 friends he had in Circles last week so this experience can't have left him feeling all that sociable.

Staff at Facebook spend their well-remunerated time dreaming up new ways to entice users to part with their hard-earned personal information so the site can target brilliant adverts to each one of its 600 million or so users.

It's a succesful strategy and next door neighbour Google wants a piece of the pie, launching its own get-rich-quick social network site Google+.

Facebook head honcho Mark Zuckerberg was obviously keen to see what the competition's up to and joined the service when it launched, quickly becoming the most followed person on the site.

Well, he was, until he made his profile private, in a move laden with delicious, creamy irony. For Facebook, you see, has had a problem with privacy. Namely, yours. It didn't want to give it to you without a fight.

Enhanced privacy could mean fewer pieces of information to pass on, and less bait to entice advertisers, so the site makes being private particularly tough and new services are always open by default, with privacy hidden away deep in the settings.

But Zuckerberg, it seems, likes his own privacy, and is jolly glad therefore that Google thought to stick some privacy settings in so he could disappear to the corners of the site, watching his rival from within its own belly. Creepy.

Perhaps even more bizarrely, Google's own top Google+ users - Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Vic Gundotra, the senior vice president of social networking (still not the mayor, he needs to check-in more) - have also gone private.

They sucker us in with promise of ever-lasting happiness, then hide away to watch their devious plans unfold. Guys, come back. Sneak needs more friends!