for MIT Technology Review In 1967, the American social psychologist Stanley Milgram sent out 160 packages to randomly chosen individuals in the U.S., asking them to forward them to a single individual living in Boston. The task included a simple rule: The recipients could only send each parcel on to somebody they knew on a first-name basis.
Social Media is huge advantage for law enforcement. Police are depending on more an more people to get in touch with them and give them clues into cases which they are investigating. Don Martin, Public Information Officer with Tyler Police tell KETK, " In the old age you have eye witnesses."
I thought this article was interesting because everyday you can see how certain social media sites hurt you. This shows you how it can help you and how it can help police investigators solve their cases.
This story first appeared on PR Daily in October 2012. Sometimes your productivity comes to a screeching halt. You can't possibly do anything right now. Even getting up to use the bathroom seems like a chore. A coffee the size of a soda New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to ban might help, but even then, completing that assignment seems like a distant possibility.
Before Facebook and Google became the megaliths of the web, the most famous online adage was, "on the internet, no one knows you're a dog". It seems the days when people were allowed to be dogs is coming to a close.