There are now more Facebook users worldwide than there are Buddhists. To celebrate such an impressive milestone, we’re all invited to share our “Facebook Stories.”
17
Jul
There are now more Facebook users worldwide than there are Buddhists. To celebrate such an impressive milestone, we’re all invited to share our “Facebook Stories.”
Tags: 500 million, ceo, disasters, facebook, facebook stories, grief, half a billion, loss, love, mark zuckerburg, marketing, marriage, pr, randi zuckerburg, social media, social networking, stories, weddings
3
Jul
Facebook already advertises products to us based on our interests and other factors. But what else will they do with the info, particularly now that developers are slaloming down the slippery slope of tagging us with information we might not want to share?
Tags: brockton, crime, detection, face, facebook, facial, investigation, Mobile Offender Recognition and Identification System, MORIS, odio, photo tagging, police, privacy, recognition, sam odio, software, Technology
29
Jun
Digg’s Kevin Rose created juggernaut of speculation about “Google Me,” an upcoming social networking service, and now others are coming out of the woodwork to confirm that it’s no rumor, and that it could destroy Facebook.
Tags: adam d'angelo, bing, buzz, digg, facebook, google, google me, kevin rose, orkut, privacy, quora, social networking, social networks, twitter, voice, wave
27
Apr
My recent Social Media Blackout experiment left me feeling all pathetic and alone, but it turns out that I’m not (alone, anyway).
Last week, University of Maryland researchers found that college students who swore off social media and texting showed signs of withdrawal similar to what drug addicts experience after quitting cold turkey. Sound familiar? [...]
Tags: addiction, blackout, blogging, experiment, facebook, media, moderation, networking, social, twitter
18
Apr
We’re in the car on the way to work and my fingers are twitching like I’m some sort of addict. (And maybe I am.)
Tags: addiction, black out, blackout, blogging, connecting, digg, facebook, flickr, frenemies, frienemies, generation net, generation next, grammar, internet, iphone, media, milennials, multimedia, myspace, networking, news-geek, nra, online, orkut, social, social media, social networking, twitter, web
28
Mar
suggests with all the sensitivity of a rabid dog that we Indians are a bunch of nosy braggarts who believe it’s our gods-given right to examine and judge the actions of everyone we know–and to over-share our own lives’ most inappropriate details.
Tags: Blogs, facebook, failbooking, human nature, india, lamebook, myspace, orkut, people, social networking, social networks, stereotypes, stereotyping
23
Feb
Just yesterday the Times of London quoted several psychologists who all say that we Tweet because we have an underdeveloped sense of the self. We’re narcissists. Ouch.
Tags: facebook, fads, iphone, multimedia, myspace, narcissism, psychologists, social networks, social theory, times of london, trends, twitter, world of warcraft
Rima Chaddha Mycynek is a writer, reporter, editor, photographer, videographer, former talk show host, and all-around journalism nerd. She currently teaches multimedia journalism at Boston University. [Read More] |
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