"But something bigger is going on here…Facebook is eating the web. Yes, Facebook is becoming the web for millions and millions of people. As I have written before, there's already a wealth of amazing things you can do within the site without ever leaving. What's more, as I also speculated, the site giving rise to [...]
“I share the view that students who let social network style, like SMS (text) abbreviations, such as L8R, and emoticons (like smiley faces) slip into their more formal communications, run the risk of being viewed as poor communicators by very influential people, such as potential employers and graduate school review boards.”
– Social Media Today | Students Failing English Due to Twitter, Facebook
It’s almost as if, on one hand, marketers and advertisers, driven by supportive businesses open to change, need to adopt Social Media. On the other side of it, the “Identity Management platforms” (isn’t that what Facebook really is?) need to figure out a way of allowing targeting of influentials without cutting their own throats by violating privacy issues.
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It seems that the big 4 [Microsoft, Intel, Google, IBM] are suffering from an overload of internal internet usage. People are not working — they are emailing, twittering, facebooking, and googling, while at work — and the big information conglomerates are in need to do something about it. Now these companies that created the big information beast will find [...]
The truth about social networks and webmails is starting to come out. Few days ago Zephoria (aka Danah Boyd) wrote about her friend Bob who had bad encounters with Google: Earlier this week, Bob received a notice that there was a spam problem in his Orkut community. The message was in English and it looked [...]
According to FOXNews.com, Facebook has unveiled plans to target advertisements by injecting them into its members’ conversations. Facebook is giving users some control over whether to share information on their buying habits and other online activities with friends. For the program announced Tuesday to work, enough users must actually say “yes” so advertisers can show [...]