The most difficult obstacle Olympians face may not be something they can train for
Olympians spend nearly the entirety of their lives training. And yet, no amount of preparation could possibly ready them for the scariest judges of all– the general public. For 17 days, these athletes lay prey to viewers all over the world. The London 2012 Olympics have been no exception. Dubbed the “Social Olympics,” sites like […]
Q&A with Sam Wempe: Social Media Strategies
Originally from Seattle, Sam Wempe came to UBC in 2007 and has been able to successfully use social media to shape a digital identity he can be proud of. Because of the positive online presence he created for himself, he now works as an Account Coordinator at Invoke Media, a digital innovation agency in Gastown, […]
Google Chrome’s “Dear Sophie” vs the Facebook-free baby: can we find a happy medium?
We all know how annoying it is to go onto YouTube to watch a video and have an advertisement load up before watching. I usually will mute the advertisement, or click the “skip to video” button right away when given the option. But for some reason, when this video came up, I hesitated to click […]
How to boost your Twitter profile- findings from a study of higher education scholars
Despite the appeal of hashtags (they make everything sound/look cool, #truestory,) I initially rejected the idea of Twitter because I saw it as yet another forum for people to publically document every minute of their lives. Talk about an idle waste of my time, #amiright? And yet, a recent study by G. Veletsianos from the […]
Apple wants to protect you..by duplicating you?
The struggle for power over personal data between social networking sites and their users is not a new concern. By now, most people are aware that the way these free services are able to make money is from taking the personal data we provide them and using it to market targeted products from other internal […]
Callum Haywood Knows What You’re Doing And Now The World Will Too
18 year old Callum Haywood knows what you’re doing and has now shared that with the world in creating “We Know What You’re Doing,” a site that had only just gone live yesterday afternoon and has, according to CNN, already seen 120,000 unique visitors and nearly 5,000 likes on Facebook. The site features four main […]
Peeked Interest: Is privacy an outdated concept?
We all know how beautiful the UBC campus can be. Nestled close enough to both the mountains and the water—what’s not to love? Darryl McIvor and Frans Kouwenhoven have however chosen instead to focus on those who occupy our beautiful campus in creating Peeked Interest, an online dating site that has stirred up quite a […]
Roberto Luongo on Twitter? a lesson in social media profiling from the man behind the mask/screen
Many of us who use social media struggle with finding the balance between being both anonymous and authentic online. Some of us are too anonymous; refusing to take ownership for the things we say and do. And yet some of us are too authentic, giving away too much of our regular, everyday lives. It brings […]
From Picture books to Facebook
The Vancouver Sun reports that Facebook is seeking out methods to allow children under 13 to participate in the social network. The article acknowledges that though kids 13 and under are currently prohibited from registered use on the site due to federal law, there is already an estimated 7.5 million Facebook users out of the […]
Isn’t sharing, caring?: 9 out of 10 US adults believe people share too much info online
Intel’s “Mobile Etiquette” survey in 2012, aimed to “evaluate the current state of mobile manners…and examine how U.S. adults share and consume information online and how [it] impacts culture and relationships, reports that approximately 85% of US adults share information online, with 9 out of 10 US adults believing people are sharing too much information […]
