There’s a fine line between following someone’s life on Facebook and stalking them. And there is an equally fine line between capturing your thoughts in 140 characters and not being able to pin down your attention span. Where is that line, exactly?
The Social Media Venn Diagram, jokingly developed and plastered onto a tshirt I [...]
Looking for something soft and chewy to stick on your Facebook Wall? How about some Fresh Fruit Facebook Gum? This pack of gum carries the caption “Virtual Friends Forever” and “We Met on Facebook.” Facebook Gum retails for $1.50. So what comes next? Twitter mints?
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Ology network partner ZiggyTek tells the story of an alarming trend, and one that I’m occasionally guilty of myself. After six to eight hours of network deprivation — also known as sleep — people are increasingly waking up and lunging for cellphones and laptops, sometimes even before swinging their legs to the floor and tending [...]
The Roman Catholic Church is no newbie to condemning things, often without a real compelling reason to do so. In its latest condemnation, the head of Roman Catholic Church in England warns against the dangers of SMS, email, and social networking.
According to Vincent Nichols, head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, modern [...]
Having trouble stuffing all that social media into your diet? The Social Networking Watch helps keep you on track and gives you a set schedule so you can be connected 24/7. My only objection? There should be espresso shots every other hour so you can sustain your connectivity. Or maybe a small electric shock to [...]
The hours of 8pm-1am on NYU’s campus are what I call Facebook Hour – the period of time when students, tired from their days return to their dorms to procrastinate for the next day’s workload. In other words, Facebook and other trolling of the internet. During Facebook Hour, internet speeds slow to a screeching halt, [...]
Nielson Online reports that in the month of June, 87 million Americans visited Facebook. Fair enough, no big surprises there. But here’s a number to put on the addiction: four hours and thirty nine minutes. That’s the average time spent on Facebook per user.
I basically live on the internet. I keep a number of blogs, [...]
Remember the good old days when Facebook was a student-only institution? According to iStrategyLabs, from January to July of 2009, even though the population of Facebook members over the age of 55 grew 513.7 percent, the site now sees 16.5 percent fewer high-school users, and 21.7 percent fewer college users. [CNET]
But that doesn’t mean that [...]
Part of what makes The Onion so funny is that it’s actually based on some piece of truth, then just stretched and exaggerated. This “report” takes the dumb party pictures that show up on Facebook a step further, and traces a falling cigarette that starts a fire with 40,000 pictures obtained from multiple iPhones, BlackBerries, digital [...]
A study at Ohio State University claims to have found a link between Facebook and significantly lower grades in school. The researchers surveyed 219 grad and undergrad students in the US, but not much detail on how the study was actually conducted is available. Since the point has been beaten to death already by the [...]
