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Twitter Tips: 5 Reasons People Un-Follow You. Why should you care whether @MindaZetlin follows you on Twitter or not?

You shouldn't. But if these five annoying habits are turning me off, there's a good chance I'm not the only one. Here, in descending order of annoyance, are the top five ways to lose me as a Twitter follower: 1. Every tweet is about your product or service. "Exciting news! I know there are consultants out there earnestly telling their clients to "stay on message" at all times. 2. For some reason, there is a significant number of Twitter users whose profiles are in English, but their tweets aren't. 3. Consider this tweet from earlier today: "RT @ScLoHo: RT @awelfle: @AmyL_Bishop @douglaskarr and what about @scloho? I'm sure that means something to someone, but not to me. 4. If you're a savvy Twitter user, you probably know that a tweet beginning with the @ symbol appears only in the stream of that user, plus any other users who follow you both.

But those tweets also show up when someone looks at your timeline. Surviving Social Media. I have a love-hate relationship with social media.

I love having information at my disposal. Contacts who are experts in almost any industry are one tweet away. But keeping up with the flow of information, the need to provide valuable content for a group of people I’ve never met, sucks away valuable time. This is time I’d rather spend with my kids, volunteering for the betterment of others, doing anything in a real, unplugged world. Thoughts on the Referee for the US v Canada Women's Olympic Soccer Game (with images, tweets) · wilkinsoncharlo. McKinsey Says Social Media Could Add $1.3 Trillion to the Economy. Will Cheating at a Young Age Lead To Cheating as an Adult? #highered. How Social Media Is Taking Over the News Industry [INFOGRAPHIC] More than ever, people are using Twitter, Facebook and other social media sources to learn about what's happening in the world as traditional news outlets become increasingly less relevant to the digital generation.

American forces' raid on Osama Bin Laden, Whitney Houston's death, the Hudson River plane landing — these are just a few of many major news stories ordinary citizens broke on Twitter first. Professional journalists, meanwhile, use Twitter all the time to break news quickly before writing up full articles. And the business side is going digital too. Online news now generates more revenue than print newspapers. But the trend toward Internet and social media-based news — and the accompanying rush to be first to report a story — also comes with pitfalls. All this and more comes from the online education portal Schools.com, which pulled research from sources including the Washington Post, Pew Research Center and Reuters to put together the infographic below.

Tumblr Devoted to Advertising Erotica Takes All Comers. Google Search Gets a Cool and Useful Calculator. Before today, when you typed an equation into Google — say, "15 x 7" — the answer (105, if you must know) would appear in bold above you actual search results.

Now Google has gone one step further, giving you your answer on a virtual calculator. The blue-hued calculator appears above your results, as before, and has 34 buttons, including standard trigonometric functions, exponents and buttons for the transcendental numbers, pi and e. Bonus: It also works on mobile. In our quick test, it appeared in both Safari and Chrome on iOS and of course on Android as well. Although the scientific functions aren't visible in portrait mode, they appear when you flip your phone to landscape — a trick Google's borrowing from the iOS-standard calculator. Punching buttons is a little unwieldy in the desktop browser, but it's natural as can be on a phone.

SEE ALSO: Beyond Barrel Roll: 10 Hidden Google Tricks. 10 Dating Apps to Help You Find True Love. Right now, more than 40 million singles use top online personals platforms such as Match.com and eHarmony as well as niche dating websites to find love. Online dating, however, is evolving. More and more, connected singles are using dating apps to improve their chances of meeting that special someone. Singles can connect online and test their web-based love connections in person. In some cases, it's only a few minutes after virtually chatting, thanks to location-based features. "If you think you’re not tech-savvy enough to download a dating app, think again," Laurie Davis, founder of eFlirt Expert and author of Love At First Click: The Ultimate Guide to Online Dating (releasing in February by Simon & Schuster) tells Mashable.

Enter spur-of-the-moment dating. "Most mobile apps are good for connecting quickly, so you’ll find more singles looking for casual relationships ready to meet on the fly," Julie Spira, a leading authority in online dating advice, tells Mashable. Social Learning & Education. Sustainability & Cause Marketing. Sustainability & Cause Marketing / How Green Is The iPad? #infographic.

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