Who ‘sexts’? And who cares, besides former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s wife? It turns out that a fair number of people send the cryptic and racy messages, and behavioral scientists who study issues as varied as sexual mores, shame and suicide are curious. Depending on your definition of se... Read more...
As the issue of girl bullying has risen to new prominence, it has attracted a more troubling kind of attention. Reality television show producers discovered that mean girls sell, and they churned out scores of programs featuring breathtakingly aggressive females.” Rachel Simmons... Read more...
Digital technology is providing a growing variety of methods for school leaders to connect with parents anywhere, anytime—a tactic mirroring how technology is used to engage students. Through Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, and text messages sent in multiple languages, school staff members are... Read more...
Do you trust Facebook with your personal information? Have you changed your Facebook privacy settings? For any online service, make sure to take advantage of all the settings at your disposal. 70 percent of Facebook users do not trust the social networking giant with their personal informatio... Read more...
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05/04/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News,
Politics As Usual,
Technology,
World News
If you add up how much money Facebook spent on lobbying during the last four quarters, it appears the social networking giant set a new record in 2011: $1.35 million. Last year, Facebook’s lobbying budget passed the $1 million milestone, according to last quarter’s report filed with the U.S. ... Read more...
The FBI is looking to monitor all public information posted on social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace. The organization is asking for an app to do all the scraping automatically. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking to develop a Web app that can continuou... Read more...
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09/01/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News,
Technology,
The Facebook Killer,
World News
Facebook accounts for 95% of social networking time on the web in the U.S. according to an analysis of comScore data provided to us by web publisher Ben Elowitz of Wetpaint. (We would think this holds for mobile, but it's possible Twitter has more of a hold there than on the desktop.) Elowit... Read more...
We’ve heard time and again how time-consuming Facebook can be. Nevertheless, I always find the statistics mind-blowing: Americans spent a total of 53.5 billion minutes on Facebook in May 2011, according to the latest data from Nielsen. How does this compare to other websites? Well, American... Read more...
The Associated Press this morning reports an exclusive, explaining how the White House can receive real-time updates on a situation on the ground, leading up to a revolution, predicting crime and disorder, or the ‘mood in the air’ shortly after the death of Osama bin Laden. The U.S. Centr... Read more...