From Steven O’Hear at TechCrunch Europe, my eyes popped out of my head when I read this – and it’s a feature, not a flaw. As an example, a privacy quirk on Facebook appears to produce the following scenario: User A sends a friend-request to user B but they choose not to accept, at least […]
As I mentioned before, Farmville and other social games, use sophisticated psychological mechanisms to keep you playing. But that might not continue for much longer on Facebook, as their major producer, Zynga, is having a bit of quarrel with Facebook, with the former threatening to leave. Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For War Against […]
Some ‘social media scientist’ has data-mined shared stories on Facebook has found that the most popular ones talk about sex, or are in some way positive. Well, nobody would have predicted that. Data Shows: On Facebook, Sex Sells | Dan Zarrella
A Seattle couple, Jason and Kelli Krafsky, have written an entire book about the problems of managing your current and previous relationships on Facebook Husband and wife write book to help couples navigate Facebook This is a more serious issue than you might think, but as I have previously posted, you don’t want to know […]
..it seems like a lot of you are spinning fibs. This ‘survey’, conducted by an ‘agency’, published via ‘release’, apparently found that half of social media users – that’s you! – don’t use their real names. Perish the thought that anyone be economical with the truth on the internet … CHUBB CP : Many Don’t […]
