Do you smoke weed? Does God exist? How do you feel about fat people? And most importantly, how do you feel about your family members, potential employers and the entire world, for that matter, having access to your answers to these questions?
21
Apr
No Privacy with Facebook ‘Questions’
Posted by Rima Published in privacy, social networking, TechnologyTags: dating, employment, facebook, facebook questions, faq, internet, mark zuckerberg, network, networking, no privacy, online, privacy, public, questions, security, social, social network, unemployment, web, zuckerberg
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10
Jan
Have you hacked your profile? If not, here’s how you can do it, quickly and easily
Tags: facebook, hack, image, josh wiseman, mark zuckerburg, networking, photo, picture, profile, profile hack, social network, zuckerburg
2
Aug
Social Networking Connects Celebrities and Fans
Posted by Rima Published in Entertainment, fun, people, social networking, TechnologyFun stories and tips for getting famous people to notice you
Tags: 30 rock, brendon walsh, celebrities, celebrity, comedy, comedy club, Curt Smith, Entertainment, facebook, fame, get seen, Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business, interview, interviews, isaiah mustafa, jimmy fallon, michael ian black, nashville, old spice, old spice guy, old spice man, reno 911!, saturday night live, social media, social networking, stella, steve garfield, tears for fears, the state, tracy jordan, tracy morgan, twitter, youtube, zanies
17
Jul
Facebook ‘Stories’ Celebrates 500 Million Users
Posted by Rima Published in fun, social networking, WorldThere 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
Face-Recognition Technology Online: Progress VS Privacy
Posted by Rima Published in privacy, social networking, TechnologyFacebook 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
Social Media and Surviving the Addiction Generation
Posted by Rima Published in Blogs, Entertainment, human nature, Journalism, social networking, TechnologyMy 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
My Social Media Blackout: Confessions of an Addict
Posted by Rima Published in Blogs, human nature, social networkingWe’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
Why EVERYONE Loves Facebook
Posted by Rima Published in Blogs, human nature, people, social networking, Technologysuggests 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
Twitter Ranks Third Among Social Networking Sites–But What’s the Appeal?
Posted by Rima Published in Breaking News, Entertainment, Journalism, Technology, WorldJust 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
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 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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