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Lovely sexy sex : that’s apparently what we like to talk about

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

5 May 2010 at 01:48 - Comments

How to deal with your relationships on Facebook

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 […]

1 May 2010 at 19:23 - Comments

Personally, I was born and christened ‘PsychBook’, but as for the rest of you…

..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 […]

30 April 2010 at 12:31 - Comments

At this rate, the internet will soon become self-aware, and answer to the name of ‘Facebook’

Websites are signing up to the Open Graph API and other social plugins at a phenomenal rate. In the future, you won’t go on the internet to log in to Facebook, you’ll log on to Facebook to go on the internet – how’s about that for a soundbite? Facebook’s New Social Plugins Come to 50,000+ […]

29 April 2010 at 20:18 - Comments

‘My Mom Tried To Friend Me On Facebook But I Ignored Her’

It’s a quote! from this study, which has been doing the rounds over the last few days, carried out at the University of Maryland, College Park, by the International Center for Media & the Public Agenda, who asked 200 students to abstain from using all media for 24 hours. And then they were asked to […]

28 April 2010 at 23:17 - Comments