I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself.
In a book called “The Top Five Regrets of The Dying,” a palliative nurse recorded the most common regrets of the dying. It’s not surprising to see what made the list as they are all things that touch each of our lives as we struggle to pay attention to and make time for things that we truly love.
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Biggest funding source is family and friends.
You hear about startups in Silicon Valley getting venture capitalor crowdfunding money all the time. But the two combined barely make up the money given by startups’ biggest funding source: friends and family. (Infographic)
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Each post is seen by one in three Facebook “friends.”
Do you know who saw the picture you posted on Facebook or what you posted on your timeline? More of your Facebook “friends” saw what you posted than the average Facebook user realizes, according to a study done by data scientists at Facebook.
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Get someone to do a favor for you.
Here is a list of the top ten ways to win friends and influence people using psychology without being a jerk or making someone feel bad.
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EnemyGraph
You can love it or hate it but Facebook is a positive place – you can ‘Like’ things, but not dislike them, and you can have Friends, but not enemies… until now.
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Pew is calling this phenomenon “the pruning” of social networks.
Facebook users are getting a lot more selective, deleting comments, photo tags and even friends at a record rate, according to a new study released Friday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
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Facebook friends’ happy pictures make you sad
In today’s fast-paced, hectic world there are plenty of reasons to feel down. But you wouldn’t think that the world’s most popular social networking site would be one of them. But that’s exactly what a new study by Utah Valley University has found.
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Male sex life suffers if partner is too close to his friends.
Middle-aged men are more likely to have a poor sex life if their wife is close to their friends because it undermines their masculinity, a study has found.
Friends or frenemies
Why do we add and remove friends on Facebook? Research from NM Incite, a Nielsen McKinsey company, reveals that there are innumerable factors that help Facebook users decide to add a friend or cull someone from the fold, though knowing someone in real life is the top reason cited for friend-ing someone (82%) and offensive comments are the main reason someone gets the boot (55%).
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Does Facebook alter people’s brains?
How many “friends” do you have on Facebook? People with lots of friends on the social networking site have denser grey matter in certain regions of the brain, says a new study, raising the possibility that such sites may be altering people’s brains.
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Beware of malicious friends on Facebook.
Lurking in the shadows of your Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and eHarmony accounts are con artists, according to the North American Securities Administrators Association, the oldest international investor protection association.
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Google Plus One
Frustrated by a string of failed attempts to crack social networking, Google Inc, is taking another stab at fending off Facebook and other hot social sites with a new service called Google Plus.
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