I wanted to try a slightly different angle with this post and create a call-out for discussion surrounding a particular topic: does social media negatively impact spirituality?
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6 effective ways to annoy your social network
Make sure you don’t succumb to these awfully effective ways of getting yourself overlooked; ignored; or, even worse, cast aside and forgotten with nothing more than a single flex of a finger. Here are, in no particular order (except maybe the last one), 6 highly effective ways to piss off your social network.
Can you compete with the Super-Taskers?
Think you’re pretty good at multi-tasking? Well, get ready for the Super-Taskers and their uncanny ability to have more things going on at once then you could ever possible handle; even on a good day.
Social Media: Crafting a Digital Identity
With the absolutely overwhelming boom of various forms of social media it has often been said that we now know our friends more than ever. You know how they feel when they wake up, who they went out with on the weekend (and who they got particularly close to…), and the various interests and associates that you may never have otherwise realised you had in common. But there is an elephant in the room here, and that is that we are all crafting our digital identities (to a greater or lesser extent) to portray the us that we want people to see.
Facebook now more populated than the USA
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced on the official blog that they have now surpassed the 300 million user mark. This is quite astounding news, and it’s quite likely that Facebook now has a user population larger than the United States.
Facebook bully sentenced to three months jail
The UK has recently seen its first prison sentence handed out for cyber-bullying, as an 18 year old girl was sentenced to three months in a young offenders’ institution after pleading guilty to harassment.
Facebook to increase awareness of application data access
Facebook is going to be changing the way we interface with applications. More specifically, users are going to be made much more aware of just how much access they are giving to third-party companies to their personal data.
Facebook tries to patent crowd-sourced translations
Facebook harnessed the power of its massive user-base to create a simple system whereby users would translate particular sentences collectively – and now it wants to patent the way in which this was done.
10 ways to improve social network security
A few simple precautions that one can take to minimise the chances that you personally will be the victim of an unethical individual exploiting your security weaknesses.
Panic follows social networking DDoS
Over the last few days many of us may have realised just how reliant we are upon our social networks and online forms of communication such as Facebook and Twitter. Following a co-ordinated and sustained DDoS attack on some of the major social networking sites, many individuals were unable to log into their networks for up to 48 hours.
