Seems like most of the news I’ve seen today and articles I’ve read centers around Facebook. Here are some interesting pieces I’ve come across today. By the Numbers A little more than a month after announcing it had 150 million active users, Facebook has reached 175 million active users–the statistic the social-networking site prefers to […]
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In terms of worldwide audience Facebook is now king. I guess MySpace is still the largest in the USA: In November 2008 Facebook drew 200 million unique worldwide visitors; more than 1 in 5 people who accessed the Internet that month visited the site. When sites are that big growth generally stagnates, but in Facebook’s
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Last week I posted a funny video on how Facebook can lower your self-esteem. Apparently, this is no joke and certainly not a laughing matter for some. A leading psychologist in London, England says Facebook is causing some pain in people: But a leading psychologist says Facebook is driving a worrying trend. The social networking
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A few months ago I received a call from an exasperated friend who had innocently installed many applications on Facebook and was now receiving a flood of emails every time something happened on one of those applications. He had accepted the request from all his “friend” to install such and such application etc. Now he
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It’s not what you know, but who you know. And now Google wants to rank you based on who you know and how influential you are with them. Not everyone is equal. This is especially true in social networking sites. Where some are definitely more equal than others. They have more friends, they participate in
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It’s humorous, but only because its true. Ross Wolinsky has had a revelation and published the authoritative ten commandments to govern Facebook. Here is the list: Thou Shalt Not List Every Movie, TV Show, Band and Book You Have Ever Heard Of In Your Profile Thou Shalt Not “Poke” Indiscriminately Thou Shalt Not “Friend” People
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The last few weeks there has been some major revisions to the Facebook interface. Until very recently you could switch back to the “old” view, but now that has been taken away. So, users are left with the new version. And some don’t like it. I browsed through some of the entries at “iF YOU
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Facebook is rolling out a new type of ad called “Engagement Ads”. The idea behind the ads is that Facebook users get to interact with the ad in one shape way or form. For example users can leave comment on the message, forward a virtual product etc. Here are details from Jeremiah Owyang’s blog: Engagement
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I saw an interesting article today on STLToday.Com on how social networking sites may be competing with high school class reunions. A very interesting phenomenon indeed because I can personally relate to the feelings described in the article. Ever since I’ve been on Facebook I’ve connected with a lot of my former classmates (both high
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