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June 8th, 2010 by Bethany North
There are quite a few things that should not be done through social media, no matter how appropriate you may think that they are at the time.
Since everyone and their grandmother is literally on Facebook, and celebrities are using Twitter to have public fights, it is about time that social media gets reined in by avoiding these fatal mistakes.…
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May 26th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
“Making hay while the sun shines” was a popular saying in the farming world of yesteryear. These days it may even be as popular. If you don’t harvest those crops FarmVille might let them wither and die.
Zynga’s FarmVille is one of the biggest draws on Facebook. Planting, tending, watering and harvesting virtual crops so that bigger and bigger farm…
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May 24th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Image courtesy of Twitter.com
Another travel season has arrived, and many seasoned world travelers will be cranking up the RVs and dusting off the sky miles. In a tough economy however, it can be a real challenge to get a decent vacation without spending a fortune. Welcome to the age of technology, where a little elbow grease at the old…
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May 13th, 2010 by Bethany North
I don’t know about you, but I hardly hear about MySpace anymore, unless a band is promoting their page.
More and more people are sharing in the addiction of Facebook, so where does that leave MySpace for the future?
Most recently, the co-president of MySpace, Jason Hirschhorn, was interviewed to find out more about his views on the future of…
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May 11th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
What would life be like without a cell phone, computer and all the social media links associated with them? A new study labelled “24 Hours Unplugged” asked college students to resist the use of social media links including cell phones and computer use for 24 hours. They lived to write about it.
And write they did. The 200 students who…
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May 10th, 2010 by Bethany North
Yes, everyone you know out there has a Facebook and possibly Twitter account, but there is still a right and a wrong way to approach social media.
To begin with, you may want to be careful with anything you say in the public environment of Twitter. There was an actual situation in Chicago where someone talked badly about the state…
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May 4th, 2010 by Bethany North
This is a deep and profound question, but we all understand that death is a fact of life. With the day and age of social media addiction, you may be wondering what would happen to your Facebook and other online profiles if you were to suddenly kick the bucket. Even more so, what if a close friend or family member…
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April 27th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Ah yes…this is familiar. Here I am at my desk, catching up on the new Facebook update, trying to figure out how to restore my privacy, and I am completely lost. In my efforts to conceal from my grandmother that I hate Andy Rooney, I have now become Andy Rooney. I am at my desk, I am talking to you…
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April 26th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Social networking has accomplished a feat hardly possible by any other means of communication in the last century: bringing different generations, lifestyles and schools of thought together under one umbrella of technology. MySpace can still claim the historical significance of being the first major social media site. Membership is waning, however, mostly due to more sophisticated sites like Facebook, which…
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April 21st, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Health experts in Great Britain have underlined the recent fourfold increase in syphilis to areas of Britain that Facebook is most popular. The director of Public Health, Peter Kelly identified that social media sites like Facebook make “it easier for people to meet up for casual sex”. He identified that of the cases he was familiar with, that the partners…
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