The question of whether teens will abandon Facebook has fascinated observers for at least four years (ever since the hysteria over teen Facebook addiction passed). But all that really matters to the service is what happens after teens go off to college and enter “the real world.”
“For the last two years cyberwarriors loyal to Bashar al-Assad have made cyberspace a second front in the Syrian conflict. For nearly as long, Marquis-Boire and his colleagues Eva Galperin and John Scott-ÂRailton have been tracking and analyzing the arsenal of computer malware used against the Syrian opposition, journalists and NGOs.”
“The alleged cultural democratization of social media has only made us hungrier for judgment. So hungry, we care more about the act than the judges. No wonder journalists run away from this, preferring a place where there are zoning restrictions on the new carnival of life.”
“As it has become nearly universal, Facebook may have lost some of its edge — or, at the very least, it may no longer feel novel or original to some of its users,” especially the younger ones.
“There’s apparently something alluring about filling those empty white boxes with embarrassing anecdotes – anecdotes that BuzzFeed then compiles and publishes in list form for everyone else to laugh at. … What compels us to tell the world with our fingers what we’d hesitate to utter in a room full of loved ones?” Naturally, social … Continue reading “TMI! Why Some People Overshare On Facebook”
Boomer dad after his Millennial daughter’s wedding weekend: “Their community is much wider than mine and my wife’s. Kate, Philip and their friends don’t move on when they move to new cities. They simply add on.”
“The report cites teens’ dislike for over-sharing and stressful “drama” on the social network. Teens also don’t like the fact that more and more adults are joining Facebook, although Pew found that 7 in 10 teens are Facebook friends with their parents.”
“There are topics people discuss on Facebook, based on their gender and age, like movies or politics. Men are more interested in politics, and the amount men talk about politics increases with age. Women seem to be less interested in writing about travel, compared to men, the older they get. And people talk about the … Continue reading “What Researchers Can Tell About People On Facebook (A Lot)”
“They analyzed the Likes of 58,466 volunteers and were able to determine with surprisingly high accuracy a range of personal information that some Facebook users may not have made public, including their sexuality, where they worship, how they’ll vote in the next election and what their IQ is.”
“The central character, an Indian woman named Radhika, faces various challenges with the assistance of players, who can help out with donations of virtual goods, for example. The players can then make equivalent real-world donations to seven nonprofit organizations woven into the game.”
