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Amanda Giles

I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...07awareness-t.html

identity reality social networking parasocial relationships ambient awareness

shared by Amanda Giles on 28 May 10 - Cached
  • Facebook and Twitter may have pushed things into overdrive, but the idea of using communication tools as a form of “co-presence” has been around for a while. The Japanese sociologist Mizuko Ito first noticed it with mobile phones: lovers who were working in different cities would send text messages back and forth all night — tiny updates like “enjoying a glass of wine now” or “watching TV while lying on the couch.” They were doing it partly because talking for hours on mobile phones isn’t very comfortable (or affordable). But they also discovered that the little Ping-Ponging messages felt even more intimate than a phone call.
  • capable
  • A lot of this is just social norms catching up with what technology is capable of.”
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  • ambient awareness
  • very much like being physically near someone
  • paradox of ambient awareness
  • insignificant on its own
  • he little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives
  • Facebook and Twitter may have pushed things into overdrive, but the idea of using communication tools as a form of “co-presence” has been around for a while. The Japanese sociologist Mizuko Ito first noticed it with mobile phones: lovers who were working in different cities would send text messages back and forth all night — tiny updates like “enjoying a glass of wine now” or “watching TV while lying on the couch.” They were doing it partly because talking for hours on mobile phones isn’t very comfortable (or affordable). But they also discovered that the little Ping-Ponging messages felt even more intimate than a phone call.
  • the growing popularity of online awareness as a reaction to social isolation
  • human groupings naturally tail off at around 150 people: the “Dunbar number,” as it is known. Are people who use Facebook and Twitter increasing their Dunbar number, because they can so easily keep track of so many more people?
  • Constant online contact had made those ties immeasurably richer, but it hadn’t actually increased the number of them; deep relationships are still predicated on face time, and there are only so many hours in the day for that.
  • If you’re reading daily updates from hundreds of people about whom they’re dating and whether they’re happy, it might, some critics worry, spread your emotional energy too thin, leaving less for true intimate relationships.
  • Parasocial relationships can use up some of the emotional space in our Dunbar number, crowding out real-life people.
  • hey can observe you, but it’s not the same as knowing you.”
  • people in their 20s who were in college when Facebook appeared and have never lived as adults without online awareness. For them, participation isn’t optional. If you don’t dive in, other people will define who you are.
  • if only to ensure the virtual version of you is accurate, or at least the one you want to present to the world.
  • he dynamics of small-town life,
  • If anything, it’s identity-constraining now
  • result of all this incessant updating: a culture of people who know much more about themselves
  • t’s like the Greek dictum to “know thyself,” or the therapeutic concept of mindfulness.
Krista S

Facebook Users Average 7 hrs a Month in January as Digital Universe Expands | Nielsen Wire - 0 views

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shared by Krista S on 16 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Top 10 Parent Companies/Divisions for January 2010 (U.S., Home and Work) Rank Parent Unique Audience (000) Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss) MOM UA % Change MOM Time % Change 1 Google 162,536 2:05:19 4.4% -11.7% 2 Microsoft 143,893 1:57:58 5.9% -4.1% 3 Yahoo! 138,850 2:28:33 6.6% -15.8% 4 Facebook 116,329 7:01:41 5.8% 9.7% 5 AOL LLC 87,629 2:14:12 -0.8% -7.5% 6 News Corp. Online 83,540 1:10:56 4.2% -9.4% 7 InterActiveCorp 75,433 0:14:16 5.4% -9.3% 8 Amazon 70,942 0:25:23 -4.7% -28.4% 9 eBay 68,909 1:18:41 1.4% -5.8% 10 Apple Computer 68,877 1:18:58 7.9% -10.0%
Ben Wagner

Facebook Busted in Clumsy Smear Attempt on Google - The Daily Beast - 0 views

www.thedailybeast.com/...clumsy-smear-attempt-on-google

facebook google

shared by Ben Wagner on 12 May 11 - No Cached
  • Ben Wagner on 12 May 11
     
    and to think I had finally come around on Zuckerberg
Ben Wagner

Facebook Buying Out Skype? $4 Billion Deal Being Talked About - 1 views

www.devicemag.com/...illion-deal-being-talked-about

facebook skype monopoly

shared by Ben Wagner on 06 May 11 - No Cached
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  • Ben Wagner on 06 May 11
     
    Well there goes the neighborhood, now I'll get ten phone calls a day requesting me to send an energy pack in mafia wars
Ariel Letts

YouTube - Gotta Share! The Musical - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

improv everywhere gotta share

shared by Ariel Letts on 24 May 11 - No Cached
  • Ariel Letts on 24 May 11
     
    funny video highlighting how we feel we always need to be connected via twitter, facebook, etc
Gideon Burton

book stack (tagged) - 2 views

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books tagging

shared by Gideon Burton on 16 May 11 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 16 May 11
     
    What's on your shelf? What if people tagged their books the way they tag photos of people on Facebook?
  • Rachael Schiel on 17 May 11
     
    Isn't this sort of the same thing as goodreads but in a different visual format?
Ashley Nelson

Journeys: Building Bridges - 0 views

dmcordell.blogspot.com/...building-bridges.html

blog google docs

shared by Ashley Nelson on 12 May 11 - No Cached
  • Ashley Nelson on 12 May 11
     
    This is someone's blog about doing the things that we are doing in class. She is using facebook, google docs, skype, and other social networks to connect and to collaborate on projects. Cool huh?
Amanda Giles

Keeping True Identity Online Becomes Battle - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...18name.html

identity parasocial relationships social networking

shared by Amanda Giles on 28 May 10 - Cached
  • But in this more narcissistic Internet era, people who were once happily anonymous view themselves as online minicelebrities with their own brands to promote.
  • vanity addresses
  • accounts on sites like Twitter and Facebook tend to show up at the top of the list when people search the Web
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  • his is a new world that we are having to step into in order to protect our brand, and they did not give us a huge window of time to prepare for it
Krista S

Report: Mafia Wars, Farmville Creator Scammed Player - 1 views

www.thebostonchannel.com/...detail.html

shared by Krista S on 16 Jun 10 - Cached
  • The man who created some of the most popular social networking games on Facebook is admitting he "did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues," according to Consumerist.com.
  • Some of the spam ends up as malware and adware installed on your computer that can be impossible to remove. Others leave players with a monthly $9.99 credit card charge that they may not even be aware they subscribed to.
Ashley Lewis

The Class That Built Apps, and Fortunes - 0 views

finance.yahoo.com/...ss-built-apps-fortunes-nytimes

Stanford Facebook app

shared by Ashley Lewis on 11 May 11 - No Cached
  • Ashley Lewis on 11 May 11
     
    a classroom of students turning an assignment into millions of dollars
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