Tag: SOCIAL-NETWORKING

Honest mistakes happen all the time. Take, for example, the British juror who posted the facts of the case she was helping to decide on Facebook so that her friends could help her decide which "way to go." You're probably thinking, "That's not an honest mistake, that's simple stupidity!" While stupidity obviously played some part in the debacle, the woman obviously mistook her solemn civic ...

The host of FOX News's 'Fox & Friends,' Steve Doocy spends a good bit of time on Facebook, according to a video of the morning show on ValleyWag.com. Apparently, Steve updates his Facebook Status every day with such mundane notices as, "Steve is tired from a busy weekend," and posts marginally creepy profile pictures, like the one of him, as a kindergartener, in a Santa suit. All weirdness ...

While many a parental unit is concerned about his or her teenager's constant texting, instant messaging and Internet surfing, as well as the impact such activities could have on a developing personality, researchers at the MacArthur Foundation are assuring parents that the kids are alright, the New York Times reports. Much of the cause for parents' trepidation, according to lead researcher ...

After witnessing the success of an impostor Twitter page, Shaquille O'Neal has started his own Twitter account, reports SportsByBrooks. Although it's no news to sports fans, the Phoenix Suns Center is a little, well, eccentric, and his Twitter page does not reveal anything different. Although new to the mini-blogging service (he started his Twitter page two days ago), Shaq is Twittering at a ...

Ugh, the online thugs are at it again. Last week, YouTube executives have removed several videos that were made in tribute to the infamous Columbine school shootings of 1999 and the two boys who perpetrated them, the BBC reported. In a recent investigative report, the BBC found that a small but thriving Columbine-obsessed community, both in the United States and Britain, was responsible for ...

Share Chances are, if you're not on Facebook already, then you're likely to be getting on it pretty soon. Whether it's your kids or your next door neighbor (or those old friends you just reunited with at your high school reunion), folks around you have been hounding you to sign up, set up a profile, and start "social-networking" with all your friends, and their friends, and so on. Truth ...

Mary Hodder, a jack-of-all-social-media-trades, has successfully married her love for Twitter and her love for her cats, the Bits Blog on NYTimes.com explains. Having launched Twitter pages for each of her four felines (CalibanTheCat, MimiTheCat, Pantherthecat and arielthecat), Hodder ghost-Tweets (that's right, you read it here first) for them, discussing everything from the weather, to ...

Twitter has proven its usefulness before, expanding the classroom, reporting on earthquakes and protests in China, and helping one journalism student get out of a Egyptian jail. According to the Silicon Alley Insider, Twitter yesterday continued to prove that it's good for more than just sharing your random thoughts when at least one voter managed to get help at the polls from the Election ...

We've heard before that letting employees access personal e-mail and other non-work related Web sites can actually be good for productivity. A new study out of British think-tank Demos takes that a step further and suggests that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace might actually be good for business. The general thrust of the report's argument is that social networking sites are an ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2008/10/29/muxlim-aims-to-be-a-facebook-for-muslims/'; Muxlim.com, a Finnish-based social network site for Muslim communities, has announced the arrival of "Muxlim Pal," a virtual world that adheres to the Muslim code. Muxlim Pal, essentially, is a Second Life for Muslims, where the women wear virtual hajibs, or veils, that cover their faces and and where ...

We've heard many things about Bono, including his numerous humanitarian efforts and his love for excessively loud music -- but hadn't heard anything about an apparent penchant for partying with 19-year-olds in bikinis. That's another side of the man the world is seeing after one of those girls posted pictures of her cavorting with the rock star onto Facebook. The pictures are of 19-year-olds ...

A new report by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion identifies several technological tools that terrorists and extremist organizations could use to help organize, communicate, and target. The 11-page presentation (Warning: PDF) names GPS-enabled cell phones, video and camera phones, voice changing software and Twitter. ...Wait... Twitter? Apparently the U.S. Army thinks that Twitter is a ...

Well, this story has developed quicker than we can draft articles. On Friday, we picked up a story about Ashley Todd, a campaign worker for John McCain, who claimed to have been attacked and disfigured by an Obama supporter at an ATM in Pittsburgh. Before we could even finish the editing process, new details emerged about inconsistencies in her story, and we began reworking our initial report. ...

We've talked about viruses hitting Facebook before, but it seems they're getting a little more serious now. A new one is making the rounds, W32.Koobface.A, which not only installs itself into the background on your PC, but takes over your profile on the site and sends itself to all your friends! The virus uses the same trick we've seen before, the fake-YouTube page that says you're missing a ...

It should be clear from recent reports regarding Facebook that folks are enchanted with the networking site. College students, for instance, seem more interested in peeping their friends' profiles than in listening to their professors' lectures. According to a story from news.com.au, graduates aren't changing their ways too much once they move into the workplace. This past Sunday, the listeners ...