Google+ : Facebook :: ____ : ____
Exploring Google+, the just released social networking service from Google is like walking through an unfinished house. The frame is there but it’s missing the people and pictures on the walls that make it a home. As the invites roll out and more people sign up though, that’s sure to change. Still, even just the […]
The Best Social Media Statistics for 2011
Over at Ragan’s PR daily, Adam Vincenzini has released an interesting collection of social media statistics for this year. Among my favorites: 80% of internet users participate in groups, compared with 56% of non-internet users. Moreover, social media users are even more likely to be active: 82% of social network users and 85% of Twitter […]
Posting from home gets workers fired
Social Networking has expanded the reach of employee/employer relations. Two workers at a BC car dealership were recently terminated for making abusive and defamatory comments about their boss on their Facebook pages while outside of work. Yahoo.ca noted that the employee’s boss caught wind of the comments through the extended networks of the Facebook friends […]
Controversial South African threatens to shut Twitter
Phweeter: an imposter tweeter Julius Malema, the controversial youth leader of South Africa’s governing ANC (and recent hate speech convict), is battling a new front to salvage his reputation – this time against Twitter. The divisive politicien has threatened to shut Twitter down if it does not address the not one, not two, but 12 phweeters tweeting in […]
Word of Mouse
This blog is just a quick shout out to the unheralded good social media and social networks have brought to the consumer world. While privacy advocates bemoan access to anonymous personal information for advertisement profiling, network users have struck back en masse at ‘the man’ with a bit of profiling of their own. By using […]
“Rules: 16+, stay fully clothed.”
Those are the rules – Welcome to Chatroulette.com With all the hype and infamy about this site, I decide I should check it out for myself. I went to the page. It asked me to allow Chatroulette access to my camera and microphone. I read the rules listed above and gave it a second thought. […]
Students Punished for Posts
Facebook’s 500 million users are slowly becoming aware that the web is not private space. The BBC recently reported that 16 high school students in India were each given three month suspensions for making ‘rude’ statements about a female teacher through the comment section on their profiles. Examples like this are more common than people […]
Faceological profile
We have all dabbled in it from time to time – social profiling others based on their social profiles. Our on-line identity is like our real identity. What we post is like what we wear. So who are you based on your FB profile photo? A new study out of Oxford University has shown some […]
Can’t block Zuckerberg
Creating the most successful social networking site of all time has its perks – the ability to view any users’ photos or personal information. In the fracas over Facebook’s recent privacy woes, its has been reported by Tech Crunch that the only person users cannot block on Facebook is the creator. Like Myspace’s infamous ‘Tom,’ […]
Are we as connected as we think?
A great article appeared on the BBC website this past week discussing the most recent TED talks in which Harvard academic, Ethan Zuckerman, said that the Internet is not living up to its ‘promise.’ His argument is an interesting one. [linebreak] Highlighting social behavior on the net, Zuckerman said the social world of internet users […]
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