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Jason Kincaid currently works as a writer at TechCrunch. He grew up in Danville, California and later relocated to UCLA in Los Angeles, California, where he studied biology with a minor in ‘Society and Genetics’. You can reach him at jkincaidtc@gmail.com (he has other addresses too, so don’t worry if you have a different one). → Learn More Everyone knows that Facebook has become absolutely massive, but it’s easy to lose sight of just how big a number like 250 million is. Buzzpoint , a social media marketing firm based out of Los Angeles, has put together an impressive visualization that shows off just how large Facebook has grown. The company has estimated the current and past Facebook usage statistics using available data and plotted a number of graphs tracking its progress over the last three years.
My name is danah boyd and I'm a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visting Researcher at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley . I spend 1/3 of my time in Cambridge, MA, 1/3 in New York, NY, and 1/3 in the air. Buzzwords in my world include: public/private, identity, context, youth culture, social network sites, social media.
apophenia: social network sites: my definition
History Of Social Networks
boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication , 13 (1), article 11. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach.
Profile Choices on Facebook When setting up your profile on Facebook, you have the following options to choose from: 1) not lis tin g yo ur p rof ile 2) creating a pr ofile s trictly for c lassroom /professio nal us e 3) creating a ge neral profile w ith filtering ( for family , friends, c olleagues, a nd student s) 4) crea ting a pub lic pro file (ac cess ible to ev eryo ne) I will go into further detail about each profile option shortly. I would highly recommend you take into account that if you are going to use your Facebook to interact with students, that you be familiar with Facebook's policies around the minimum legal age which one must be to have a Facebook account. “We recommend that minors 13 years of age or older ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.”
Teacher's Guide to Using Facebook (Read Fullscreen)
The 12 most annoying types of Facebookers - CNN.com
Facebook can be a great tool, and an occasional annoyance. What kind of Facebooker are you? There are lots of fun, interesting people you're happy to talk to when they stroll up.
Be careful what you post online if you want to be able to get a job in the future. Your blog, web site, Facebook, MySpace, online dating profile, or even forum postings might "out" your salacious activities to a potential employer. According to a survey conducted by business social networking site Viadeo, one-fifth of hiring managers have used the Internet to find personal information about potential job candidates, and a quarter of those have rejected candidates based on what they found. The survey was conducted in March, and covered nearly 600 employers and over 2,000 average adults online, revealing that employers are becoming more and more Google-happy when interviewing new candidates. 25 percent said that they had rejected a candidate outright based on what was found online, while 59 percent of employers who used the Internet to find personal information said that their discoveries play a role in their decision making.
Job Candidates Gone Wild: be careful what you post online - Ars
The Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has put together a campaign to raise awareness of privacy issues surrounding Facebook applications, in particular quizzes. According to this group, the millions of Facebook users taking quizzes are revealing far more personal information to application developers than they are aware of. This is mostly due to the fact that Facebook's default privacy settings allow access to all your profile information whether or not your profile is set to "private." Even worse, the ACLU reports that even if you shun quizzes yourself, your profile info is revealed when one of your friends takes a quiz. Want to see how bad the problem is?
What Facebook Quizzes Know About You
FACEBOOK FAIL: How to Use Facebook Privacy Settings and Avoid Di
Alison Driscoll is an interactive copywriter and social media consultant who specializes in . She authors a blog at alisondriscoll.com . provides users with the opportunity to share just about everything: photos, links, videos, virtual gifts and random musings in the form of status updates.
20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know | How-To
If you surf Facebook on daily basis or occasionally, chances are you’re already familiar with regular stuffs like add/delete friends, update statuses, walls and profile, add and explore pages & applications, etc, but there’s more.. This week we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stay connected better with your friends. Without further ado, here’s 20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know . If you have interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please feel free to share in the comment box below. How to Download Facebook Photo AlbumsEverything is done for you behind the scenes - no complicated setup, no having to create endless accounts at social bookmarking sites, no entering of captchas! IMAutomator sets up a submission schedule for your bookmark to all the supported sites in the list and then quietly submits them on auto-pilot according to the schedule you select.
