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These are the unwritten rules of Facebook (BPS Research Digest)

From Bryant and Marmo (2012) I should expect a response from this person if I post on his/her profile.I should NOT say anything disrespectful about this person on Facebook.I should consider how a post might negatively impact this person’s relationships.If I post something that this person deletes, I should not repost it.I should communicate with […]

7 January 2013 at 17:42 - Comments

How Facebook might reveal users’ attitudes toward work and relationships with coworkers.

How Facebook Might Reveal Users… [Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2012] – PubMed – NCBI. With the spread of Facebook among people in many  countries, some companies have started using applicants’ Facebook profiles as a criterion of personnel selection, in an effort to identify good workers among job applicants. However, how using Facebook is connected to […]

2 January 2013 at 12:20 - Comments

Inside Facebook’s Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where Camel Toes are More Offensive Than Crushed Heads

            Take a good long read of this. Can you see how cyberbullying behaviours could slip through? What does it say about Facebook’s priorities? Inside Facebooks Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where Camel Toes are More Offensive Than Crushed Heads.

21 February 2012 at 16:38 - Comments

This changes everything, again: Facebook Timeline

From Mashable: Facebook Timeline has been on the back burner for months now, after it was first announced at the company’s f8 conference in September. Despite much delay, it is finally rolling out to the public , starting with New Zealand. That means it’s only a matter of days before it comes to you, so brace your […]

8 December 2011 at 08:15 - Comments

A tale of two sites: Twitter vs. Facebook and the personality predictors of social media usage

I’ve been waiting for this one for a while – really looking forward to getting my hands on it. Such a tease of an abstract… From Computers in Human Behavior Social networking sites (SNS) are quickly becoming one of the most popular tools for social interaction and information exchange. Previous research has shown a relationship […]

6 December 2011 at 18:48 - Comments