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"As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others. "

"With more than 500 million people now on Facebook, it's inevitable that you'll be friended by someone you know, but with whom you don't want to share your online life. Once you've accepted them as a friend, how do you avoid them without the awkwardness of unfriending them?"

Long NYT read about a the challenge facing society - "a challenge that, in big and small ways, is confronting millions of people around the globe: how best to live our lives in a world where the Internet records everything and forgets nothing - where every online photo, status update, Twitter post and blog entry by and about us can be stored forever."

"The editors of Webster's New World Dictionary chose the verb 'overshare' as their word of the year in 2008. Why are we increasingly compelled to share mundane details of our lives online? We talk with Hal Niedzviecki, author of 'The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors.'

"On this week's show, Nora sits down with Bill Wasik and Hal Niedzviecki to talk about why the heck we post regrettable videos on the internet. It's one thing to do the embarrassing or foolish or inappropriate thing, but it's a whole other problem when we record a video and upload it on YouTube for the world to see."

In the evolving ethical landscape of social media, what's the "line" for deciding when to share something related to a story? References photos and video of photographers killed in Libya, April 2011.

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is reading on the Web really reading?

A good how-to on doing specific kinds of quieries in Twitter's search to yield the kind of results stream for a specific topic.

"Using Boolean Searches to Follow Iran Election and More on Twitter."

special coverage by Global voices of the Iranian election

Make sure you don't get left behind by incorporating some of these educational and fun ways that Twitter can be used in the college classroom.

messaging in FB is the new email

Good short overview of social networks by Mark Glaser - complement Boyd & Ellison article for class

article on SNS burnout

The following interview with Henry Jenkins (co-director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT) and danah boyd (PhD student at the School of Information, University of California-Berkeley) was conducted via email by Sarah Wright of the MIT News O

by Laura Garton, Caroline Haythornthwaite, and Barry Wellman

Clay Shirky essay on the changes in intelligence & the way we think - vs. a Nick Carr essay from the same day.

Nick Carr makes the case that the Internet is changing the way we think, and not in good ways - vs. a Clay Shirky essay from the same day.

Infographic with some nice nistory and demographics for social media students.