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The Social Network paradox

August 28, 2011

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Over the years, there’s been a radical change in the way we interact with our networks of friends online. It used to be that we had a few of our friends (online or offline friends) on a service, allowing us to connect to friends through the Internet and see what their activities were. Where the Internet used to be a somewhat scary world full of strangers, we suddenly had friendly anchors to explore that world with. Sure, most of our friends weren’t online, or at least not using the same services, but the familiarity was comforting and the ability to see what a few of our friends were doing allowed us to find new content and new friends.

We fell in love with sites that made us feel like there are people out there who are similar to us, who we are talking to and having common experiences with. But then, some of these networks — Facebook and Twitter in particular — began to grow explosively…

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Does Facebook promote drug and alcohol abuse in teens?

August 25, 2011

Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and others, which displayed images of teens abusing alcohol and drugs, “constitutes electronic child abuse”.

According to a new study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University suggests that teens who use social media are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol.

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Facebook tops 1 trillion page views

August 25, 2011

Facebook also has 870 million unique users.

Social networking site Facebook reached 1,000,000,000,000 page views in June. It’s also got 870 million unique users, according to Google’s DoubleClick Ad Planner. That makes it the number-one site in terms of broad reach of Internet users.

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2005 Zuckerberg didn’t want to take over the world

August 13, 2011

What a flashback!

The Huffington Post has come across this fascinating five-minute interview of Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook’s Palo Alto office in June 2005. The clip is apparently part of a longer 40-minute-interview from a documentary about millennials shot by Ray Hafner and Derek Franzese. That interview has never been shown in full, and if I were Hafner and Franzese I’d be figuring out a way to do that stat, especially post-The Social Network.

Zuckerberg’s initial vision, “an online directory for colleges” seems remarkably short-sighted in light of the fact that Facebook users comprise now 11% of the world’s population and 35% of the world’s online population…

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NYPD forms new unit to track troublemakers on social media sites

August 11, 2011

The NYPD has formed Facebook and Twitter units in order to track down and monitor criminals and criminal behavior on social media sites.

The New York Police Department has formed a new unit to track troublemakers who announce plans or brag about their crimes on Twitter, MySpace and Facebook.

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College students are addicted to technology: study

August 11, 2011

Students love technology.

It’s a fact that college students are obsessed with technology. Key surveys were performed recently to gauge students’ tech use scientifically. And OnlineEducation.net has made an infographic based on results from the student/technology study. (Infographic)

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A third of gamers use real world money to buy virtual goods

August 7, 2011

Visa-owned PlaySpan with research firm VGMarket have released a new study on how and what gamers are spending on virtual goods. Nearly one-third of the general gamer population has used real world money (as opposed to virtual currency) to purchase virtual goods, according to the study. Console games with online play account for the majority (51%) of virtual purchases using real world money, with social networking games (30%) coming in at second.

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Teaching teens how to breakup Facebook

August 6, 2011

“Face it, Don’t Facebook It”

A conference in Boston was held to teach 200 teenagers how to have “healthy breakups”, according to a story in the New York Times. Unsurprisingly, a lot of the discussion revolved around proper Facebook breakup etiquette.

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Facebook and Twitter creating a generation of self-obsessed people

July 31, 2011

Top scientist has warned that repeated exposure to social networking websites could harm users.

According to a top scientist Facebook and Twitter have created a generation obsessed with themselves, who have short attention spans and a childlike desire for constant feedback on their lives.

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Facebook and Twitter help speed up response to national disasters and emergencies

July 28, 2011

Could social media save you from a natural disaster?

Facebook and Twitter are helping to improve and speed up responses to natural disasters and health emergencies by involving members of the public, it has been claimed.

Social media allowed an ”unprecedented” two-way exchange of information between the public and those given the task of preparing for and responding to major events such as earthquakes, floods and infection pandemics, said researchers…

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