The social-networking giant has opened its first-ever office in Asia—in the country where being all up in one another's business is practically a birthright.
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Why India Loves Facebook - The Daily Beast - 1 views
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Shashi Tharoor, the country's junior minister for foreign affairs, has become a major national celebrity thanks to his tweets, the candor of some of which has got him into trouble with the fustier, unwired elements of the cabinet to which he belongs. Tharoor has nearly 700,000 followers, putting him in the top 10 of the world's tweeting politicians. (He is almost certainly the only one who writes every tweet himself.)
Is the internet making teens nicer? - Yahoo! News - 2 views
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We typically assume that the internet is turning kids into narcissistic, vicious cyber-bullies, but a growing body of research indicates that the opposite is true. New research suggests that spending time emailing, texting, and Facebook-ing might actually help both adults and kids become better friends and people
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the more time college students spent on the internet, the more empathetic they were both online and off
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Forty-five percent of 3,777 teens surveyed reported being bullied, but fewer than 20 percent of those said it had occurred online or via text messaging or phone. Almost 40 percent said it had happened in person. And two-thirds of those bullied online said they didn't even find the abuse upsetting.
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The 14 Types of Twitter Personalities - 0 views
Social websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscien... - 0 views
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'I'm not against technology and computers. But before they start social networking, they need to learn to make real relationships with people.'
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Considering that you have to be 13 to participate in most social networking sites, it should be hoped indeed that children do have a chance to engage in real life socializing before that
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Social networking websites are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users, an eminent scientist has warned. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred. The claims from neuroscientist Susan Greenfield will make disturbing reading for the millions whose social lives depend on logging on to their favourite websites each day.
twtpoll :: a simple survey/poll twitter app. - 2 views
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"Twtpoll is a feedback tool that helps you to create and distribute polls/surveys on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed or on any other social media site."
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