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within one year social networks account for 10% of all internet time. the site talks about how much use of internet time goes into social networks and which ones we can find to be most popular, no surprise here but facebook takes the lead. The article talks about how the demographic of social network users is ranging in age and becoming more popular with older members which we all know is true.

Digital photo frame company, Media Street, has created another digital photo frame with Wifi.This isn't the first of its kind, however, with this model you can view photos on flickr, photobucket, walmart. You can also use it to view facebook, twitter--you can even check the weather !

This article talks about a college student who was kicked out of his school for pictures and information he had posted on his facebook account. It also gives accounts of other college students being punished for the same things at other schools.

This NY times article talks about the swift growth of the Facebook community and how that community is starting to take quite a hold in society.

An artwork based on the continual archiving of Facebook pages and then wiping to create new pages. Identity becomes finely controlled and accessed.

Gives you 7 ways on how you can promote an event using social media by using twitter, facebook, flickr, and blogging.

Google is becoming more like twitter and facebook, along with email, the search engine, and mobile apps. Google makes staying connected with the world easier by incorporating everything we use into one account.

This article talks about investing in the web (i.e. investing in Twitter or Facebook). Borthwick, who works for Betaworks has invested in Twitter and has his company invested in 21 other social media networks.

Introducing Google Buzz, a new dimention of social media that is the missing link to Google's needs. Will this grow more competition with Facbook? Facebook turning into a search engine? You see it hear first!

This shows how everyone is using this effective communication tool. A student was calling a teacher with rude names and was suspended for his action. Where's the line drawn for freedom of speech?

Social Media websites are growing and is becoming the fastest source to receive news and information on others from all over the world. In the US, the first pictures from the recent disaster in Haiti was released from social media.

Douglas J. Wood is a partner with Reed Smith, chair of its media & entertainment industry focus group, and editor of the firm's white paper on social media, "Network Interference: A Legal Guide to the Commercial Risks and Rewards of the Social Media Networking Phenomenon."

This website is basically the largest index of text/ chat abbreviations used on the web. It chronicles abbreviations from A-Z. "With the popularity and rise in real-time text-based communications, such as instant messaging, e-mail, Internet and online gaming services, chat rooms, discussion boards and mobile phone text messaging (SMS), came the emergence of a new language tailored to the immediacy and compactness of these new communication media. If you have ever received an instant message or text message that seemed to be written in a foreign language, this Webopedia Quick Reference will help you decipher the text chat lingo by providing the definitions to more than 1,200 chat abbreviations."

This brings up a good point of how everyone is always blogging or facebooking or tweeting about a cause, but is anyone actually doing anything besides that?

All the up-to-date how to's and don'ts of social networks. Any type of question you have about different social networks can be found here ! Suprisingly, there is an increase of usage on cell phones for social networks.