Tag: SOCIAL-NETWORKING

He may be older than dust, but, make no mistake about it, John McCain is a certified "Twitter Genius." According to a recent study (PDF) conducted by researchers from George Washington University and New York University, the 73-year-old Arizona Senator ranks at the very top of the U.S. Senate's "Twitter Geniuses." The academics came to their conclusion after calculating every Senator's "Digital ...

School officials in Lee County, Florida have issued a new set of guidelines for the upcoming academic year. This go-round, they're cracking down on Facebook. As the AFP reports, the newly published protocol explicitly warns district teachers against interacting with their students via social networking sites, in order to avoid the kinds of legal or professional pitfalls that have plagued so ...

Remember the days before MySpace, Facebook, and the like, when online social networking was considered kind of odd? Now that everyone from kindergartners to grandmas have online profiles, these Web sites are officially part of our reality. Obviously, MySpace and Facebook aren't for everyone, so where can you go for your online mingling? As it turns out, there are Web communities that cater ...

The question on everyone's mind is has Barack Obama given up on Twitter? Okay, not everyone's mind, maybe, but we're sure someone besides ourselves and Paul Boutin at the New York Times is wondering. Our first tech-enabled president, who built so much of his support using tools like Twitter, has seemingly disappeared from the service. Since joining Twitter in April of 2007, Obama, or at least ...

People get tricked, scammed and embarrassed on Facebook all the time, so it takes a really funny/depressing story to get our attention. Taken from Banned In Hollywood, this hilarious case of adultery-gone-wrong has everything: revenge, travel, deception and, of course, soccer. Last November, 39-year-old Stuart Slann, resident of South Yorkshire, England and loyal Manchester United fan, was ...

Yesterday, Facebook ruffled the feathers on many of its users by issuing a new Terms of Service, or TOS, which some believed gave the site permission to use any content -- profiles, status updates, commentary -- posted on the site perpetually (even if Facebook members deleted their profiles and left the site). Facing a PR backlash of epic proportions, Facebook has now rather publicly reverted to ...

People are weird. The latest oddball story concerns an American couple's meal of an endangered iguana that landed them in Bahamian jail. Like so, so many other idiots, they were caught after the country's officials saw pictures of the feast on Facebook. The couple -- Vanessa Starr Palm, 23, from Illinois and Alexander Daniel Rust, 24, from Indiana -- posted incriminating snapshots that included ...

For a site that began as a student project at Harvard, and later expanded to only college students before fully opening its doors to the public, it's pretty ironic that the majority of Facebook's users are older than the 18-24 year old demographic. To give you some context, during the four weeks ending January 26, 2008, 42-percent of Facebook users were between 18-24 years old. In that same time ...

With the thousands visiting Apple retail stores each week competing for time to test drive the in-store machines, the company has again decided to ban a social networking site from the computers in its store. This time, Facebook is getting the boot. As of this week, the ubiquitous site, like Myspace before it, will no longer be accessible on computers in the Apple Store. The retailers have ...

Kids! Teens! Whomever! Don't send nude pictures of yourself to anyone on Facebook or any other site (or via your cell phone, for that matter). It will come back to haunt you. We guarantee it. Anthony Stancl, an 18-year-old Wisconsin boy, is accused of posing as a girl on facebook and convinced 31 classmates to send him nude pictures of themselves. Don't worry, it gets worse. After ...

Okay folks, if we've told you once, we've told you a thousand times: You should really make your Facebook profiles private. It's great to let it all hang out in the wild and go crazy, but if you have a job that you want to hang on to -- and these days, you should really be trying to do so -- it's in your best interest to keep things on the down-low. Need more proof? Check out the case of Betsy ...

While the Steelers and Cardinals battled for the Lombardi trophy, America was "tweeting." Similar to the Word Train it featured on Election Day, the New York Times has posted this time-lapse map of the country showing the location and frequency of the most commonly used words in Super Bowl posts (called 'tweets') on the micro-blog site Twitter. Twitter has quickly become a useful way to ...

It took only hours but with all the passengers and crew of US Airways Flight 1549 declared safe it was, perhaps, inevitable that a Facebook fan page was crafted in dedication to the pilot who skillfully guided the plane to its controlled landing in the Hudson River off the edge of Manhattan. Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III, 57, of Danville, Calif., a former Air Force pilot and now hero to at ...

Facebook users have started an online group in honor of Australian father Sam Burt, whose lovingly disciplinarian parenting approach has won him accolades from Australian parents, Reuters reports. Last week, the Australian press told the story of Sam Burt and his five-year-old son. When the boy got in trouble for beaning his bus driver with an apple core some time ago, his daddy took ...

The tragic events that took place in Mumbai last week have catalyzed widespread discussions concerning consumer technology and its evolving role on the world stage. Far from a militarily equipped force, the terrorist group that struck Mumbai last week coordinated the attacks with devices readily available to the public, as the Wired Blog points out. Communicating from their attack boat via ...