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Mind, brain and self in the age of Facebook
A couple of years ago we organised a salon with Helen Birtwistle of the Institute of Ideas on the meaning of friendship, and the then quite new social networking sites such as Facebook. A US survey in 2004 had found that up to 25% of people claimed that they had no real intimates. Yet by 2007 there was networking technology where people would ask: ‘Can I be your friend?’ What is it all about? Why is it so important?
Facebook Applications for Learning
There are many ways to use Facebook for both learning and productivity, and a number of apps that can help you do so.
Savor Chat - A better group chat for Facebook and Twitter
Savor Chat is a very simple FREE group chat application for Facebook and Twitter users.
Facebook Friends
there's some suggestive evidence that the brain might contemplate other people very differently when that person is a virtual Facebook "page" and not a flesh and blood individual, with a tangible physical presence. Humans, after all, are social primates, blessed and burdened with a set of paleolithic social instincts. We aren't used to thinking about people as computerized abstractions. (The Frontal Cortex)
Facebook, Meet Blackboard
"Sync integrates with Scholar, allowing students to post relevant links to share with classmates. Some of Sync’s other features include integration with Blackboard’s message boards, access to grades and a page with announcements and recent course updates — viewable only to the student who’s both logged on to Facebook and enrolled in the given courses." (Inside Higher Ed)
Social Networking Tools
The concept of anytime, anywhere learning is not new to the majority of Northeastern University students. With personal Web sites, multi-functional cell phones, MP3 players, YouTube accounts, Facebook profiles, and gaming personas, students are sharing an
Facebook and ethics
In this conversation we discuss Vic's experience of online communication and his recent use of Facebook in particular. We discuss ethical issues such as how such applications blur the lines between private, public and professional lives.
MySpace, Facebook attract online predators
Experts say be careful what you post online — somebody is always watching
Thoughts on Facebook
Facebook, like much of the Internet, is a great innovation! It offers you an opportunity to interact with an extraordinarily expansive universe of new people.
Analysis: Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and Xanga.com Have Different Audiences
"There is a misconception that social networking is the exclusive domain of teenagers, but this analysis confirms that the appeal of social networking sites is far broader,” Flanagan added.
Employers Use "Facebook" and "MySpace" to Weed Out Applicants
Karen Lange is the Dean of Students at the University of St. Thomas. "The caution I have is around putting too much personal information out there; their cell phone numbers or pictures or inappropriate pictures that might come back to haunt them later in
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