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Lalla Pierce

Study: Your Facebook Personality Is The Real You - 0 views

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Facebook Personality Online Identity

shared by Lalla Pierce on 27 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Lalla Pierce on 27 Mar 12
     
    Here is an interesting one about our online identity exploration- "If you think you're different on Facebook than you are in real life, you've got some explaining to do. A 2011 study from the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Psychology called "Manifestations of Personality in Online Social Networks: Self-Reported Facebook-Related Behaviors and Observable Profile Information" published in the academic journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking found that Facebook users are no different online than they are offline."
Felipe Urdaneta

Data, data everywhere | The Economist - 0 views

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shared by Felipe Urdaneta on 17 Mar 12 - Cached
  • Wal-Mart, a retail giant, handles more than 1m customer transactions every hour, feeding databases estimated at more than 2.5 petabytes—the equivalent of 167 times the books in America’s Library of Congress (see article for an explanation of how data are quantified). Facebook, a social-networking website, is home to 40 billion photos. And decoding the human genome involves analysing 3 billion base pairs—which took ten years the first time it was done, in 2003, but can now be achieved in one week.
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