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Interesting facts about social media

This article explains how Facebook is deciding to allow third-party app developers to have access to the users phone number and address. It explains that Facebook is taking some precautions to make sure that this feature is as safe as possible, but others mentioned in the article do not agree that it is enough.

It is amazing how far phone services have come. The fact that you can download from 5 Mbps to 12 Mbps over you phone. That is faster than many high speed internet providers

Front page of WSJ today addresses valuations of the social networks and offerings to buy Twitter. The article questions the valuations of these companies. I thought it might be of special interest to those of us majoring in business/accounting/finance.

Very interesting article about how the Egyptian Government pulled the plug. Also talks about legislation in the US Congress that would give the President authority to pull the plug on us.

Another article about the recent Pew report on technology and social isolation

This article is about the initial launch of WiMax in Baltimore, Chicago, and DC

Login to UIS Library required to access "The article examines a recent fad among U.S. politicians, use of the online social network Twitter to send public text messages."

This article talks about how Cyberbulling is found more on social networking sites like Facebook then anywhere else on the Internet.