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31 Aug 09

Why Don’t Teens Tweet? We Asked Over 10,000 of Them | TechCrunch

The implication is that 11% is a small number, but if we look deeper, it turns out that Twitter has a higher concentration of teens than Facebook. You can see in the chart below that Facebook is only 9% teen, so Twitter is actually more teen than Facebook, which rightly has never been perceived as having a “teen problem.” Facebook has so many users that teens just can’t be that large a percentage of the service, by definition.

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28 Aug 09

How to Ignore Friend Requests on Facebook - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com

If you click the Ignore button on a friend request, the request is thrown away by Facebook. The other party isn’t notified in any way.

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26 Aug 09

Sharing all driven by need for popularity | Toronto Star

Their study found undergraduates ages 17 to 24 who disclose a lot of personal information on Facebook are driven by the desire to be popular.

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19 Aug 09

Detecting Sadness in 140 Characters: : Web Ecology Project

At its peak, the conversation about Michael Jackson’s death on Twitter proceeded at a rate of 78 tweets per second.

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16 Aug 09

apophenia: Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?

It's all about shared intimacy that is of no value to a third-party ear who doesn't know the person babbling.

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  • It's all about shared intimacy that is of no value to a third-party ear who doesn't know the person babbling.
  • It's all about shared intimacy that is of no value to a third-party ear who doesn't know the person babbling.
14 Aug 09

Parent Advice - Social Networks and Teen Lives - Common Sense Media

Our research showed that parents vastly underestimate how much time kids spend on social networks. This makes it hard for parents to parent in the crucial areas of social interaction and development.

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12 Aug 09

How to Adjust your Facebook Privacy Settings – 2009 Edition

TIP: Use the customized settings to exclude certain people (family members, ex-boyfriends, etc) from viewing your status updates, photos, etc.

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07 Aug 09

The misery of sexting | Life and style | The Guardian

Texting explicit photographs has become a common part of courtship among teenagers. But the consequences can be tragic. 38% of under-18s had "received an offensive or distressing sexual image via text or email". These explicit texts, it says, are increasingly implicated in bullying

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06 Aug 09

The Wired Campus - Researchers Say Facebook Can Fuel Jealousy and Increase Time on Facebook - The Chronicle of Higher Education

More than three-quarters of the participants said they knew their partners had added as "friends" people with whom they had previously had flings.

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20 Jul 09

[video] Howard Rheingold on essential media literacies

He also talks about focused attention vs. multitasking and the importance of being able to handle an array of tasks simultaneously.

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19 Jul 09

[youtube] My Dinner With Andre - We're all performing

My Dinner With Andre is increasingly applicable to the state of life within social media - one of unreflective observation, performance and disconnection.

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24 Jun 09

Eszter Hargittai on Skill Matters: The Role of User Savvy in Different Levels of Online Engagement | Berkman Center

While the enthusiasm about new opportunities is thus warranted, little is known about who is actually participating, who is not, and what participation patterns may imply for the democratizing potential of new tools and services.

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22 Jun 09

Iran, citizen media and media attention | Ethan Zuckerman

So, given the wealth of commentary on the questions above by folks smarter than me, let me weigh in on some of the questions I haven’t heard asked.

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21 Jun 09

Iran Election Crisis: 10 Significant Web Videos - Boing Boing

Iran is a nation in chaos, and as we monitor the situation, we must realize that social tools provide us with unfettered access to the situation. Sometimes, that access can be disturbing

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19 Jun 09

Investigate your MP's expenses | Guardian UK

Join us in digging through the documents of MPs' expenses to identify individual claims, or documents that you think merit further investigation. You can work through your own MP's expenses, or just hit the button below to start reviewing.

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18 Jun 09

Bozeman City job application asks for social media logins - Montana's News Station - Fair. Accurate. To the Point. -

Article 2, Section 10 of the Montana Constitution reads "the right of individual privacy is essential to the well-being of a free society and shall not be infringed without the showing of a compelling state interest."

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11 Jun 09

10 Irrational Behaviors on Twitter that'd make you look crazy in Real Life

11 (mine) Eliminating contact with all acquaintances you find boring, annoying, uninteresting or non-amusing - just because the online disinhibition effect emboldens you to defy normal social conventions intended for civility, decorum and diversity of opinion.

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06 Jun 09

YouTube - JOMC449 Course Description

Course description for JOMC 449 - Virtual Communities, Smart Mobs, Citizen Journalism and Participatory Culture

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02 Jun 09

[PDF study] Creating & Connecting: Research/guidelines on social - and educational - networking | NSBA

While social networking
seems omnipresent in the lives of
most tweens and teens outside of
school, most school districts are
cautious about its use in school:

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