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Over the weekend, I had dinner and drinks with a friend from college, whom i have not seen in a few years. While hanging out, I soon found out that she [knowingly] decided to delete all existing profiles and abstain from facebook, twitter, and social media. Soon after learning this about my friend, I proceeded to think [...]
“Messages has always been the place for private exchanges on Facebook, and this won’t change. With the new Messages, now you have easy access to all your private conversations with your friends in one place. The new Messages interface not only displays the Facebook messages you exchange with friends, but it also interweaves your chats, [...]
Couldn’t agree more. //via sfweekly Posted via email from lifestream de techyness
When I watched this trailer for the “twitter movie” I almost fell off my chair in my cube. Hope you have a similar response. and now for the social network trailer..
I grew up wearing a uniform. So, as a girl, your only way to showcase your personality was through your purse and your shoes, and at my school, it was all about the bag. Many went for the true americana styles of Coach or Dooney, and of course there was the occasional Euro entry (which [...]
I get this question a lot. At work, at home, at the bar… wherever.What the F**K is social media, anyway? Watch my friends, and learn. Couldn’t agree more. Love this presentation!!! What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later View more documents from Marta Kagan. via Mashable and
Continuing along with my current theme of managing your digital identity (or multiple identities if that’s more your style), I’ve realized that not everyone is aware that things could, well, be a little bit easier with the introduction of the right tools. Consider the following situations and my proposed answers (comment if you have something [...]
With the go-live of the facebook vanity urls when the clock struck midnight (no, I did not turn back into a pumpkin..) the rush to claim one’s digital real estate by the 200,000 people in 3 minutes truly makes even the most skeptical person believe that social media is making more than just a digital [...]
I’ve heard a lot of complaining lately about twitter and status updates, but, one thing to think about (and I’ve mentioned this before) is the power of the aggregate data. What if… you could track disease trends via twitter? Look no further. Sick City has arrived. A project launched by way of DIYCity, SickCity pulls [...]
There’s tons of content out there- we’re hit up in every direction with status updates via Facebook, what people are doing via Twitter, where people are from britekite, what people are thinking about from their blogs. A new trend is “de-friending” (removing people from your facebook friends list) and “un-following” (removing ‘friends’ from twitter. It’s [...]