How Facebook Ruined Dating

How Facebook Ruined Dating (And Breaking Up Too): "Meeting/dating/relationship-ing was hard enough before 2003. And then Facebook created a whole new set of obstacles, awkward conversations and unclear situations. "Can I admit to knowing things you've done (based on your pics) before we go on dates?" "Should we get to know each other on Facebook before we date?" The difficulty of dating in the era of Facebook is not just in your head, either. Researchers have found that Facebook really is altering, or at least reflecting, new relationship patterns, even how people break up. Or more accurately, don't break up. . . ."

Two-thirds use social networking for political, civic activities
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
This should come as no surprise at a time when a phrase like “binders full of women” can instantly become an Internet meme, but a new study shows that about 66 percent of social media users have used those platforms to comment about political ...

Social Media Information Launches Free Online Social Media Reputation ...
Sacramento Bee
Social Media Information announces the launch of Social-Fingerprint, a fully automated free website that allows individuals to discover and monitor public information about themselves. By Social MediaInformation. Social Media Information. Last ...

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Adds Social Analytics Options
InformationWeek
The Salesforce Marketing Cloud combines the services of Radian6, acquired for $326 million in March 2011 for its social media monitoring and engagement capabilities, and Buddy Media, the social media campaign-management firm acquired in August for ...

Social Media Publishing From the Newsroom
Sacramento Bee
The magazine's editorial teams worked closely with KnowledgeView's consultants to improve the 'Publish live Newsroom' user experience and make it social media friendly like never before. Since the implementation of the new features to the multi ...

Chicago's Gang Violence Fueled Through Social Media
ABC News
Social media has helped launch revolutions and bring down government regimes, but these incredibly powerful tools are also helping to keep the streets of Chicago bloody. ABC News recently hosted a summit, "Hidden America: Don't Shoot I Want To Grow ...

ABC News

Social media behind the super-trawler 'sinking'
The Australian
The decision - made at the 11th hour after the government had spent years officially condoning the use of just such a vessel in the mackerel fishery - is netting some serious by-catch. Among the collateral damage is the nation's once-strong reputation ...

Meatball the Bear: social media celebrity saves animal
CBS News
Meatball the Bear: social media celebrity saves animal. Play CBS News Video. (CBS News) The world met "Meatball the Bear" -- a bear that loves meatballs -- six months ago when he made quite a splash as he hit up a suburban Los Angeles neighborhood ...

A History of Social Media [Infographic] | Copyblogger
By Beth Hayden and Rafal Tomal
I'm going to let you in on a well-kept secret: There's nothing new about "social media."
Copyblogger

Establishing Trust: How to Build Relationships With Social Media ...
By Michael Stelzner
Social Media Marketing Podcast 011: In this episode Chris Brogan talks about how to use social media to build a platform based on trusted relationships.
Social Media Examiner

#SocialChat Discusses Social Media and the Presidential Debates ...
By Michelle Stinson Ross
On Monday, October 15th, the social media marketing brain trust also know as #SocialChat gathered to discuss the impact of social media engagement for this.
Search Engine Journal

6 Awesome Brand Responses to Social Media Bullies | Digiday
By Saya Weissman
People like to give brands a hard time now and then, and thanks to social media, they can do it very easily. But sometimes brands rise to the occasion when being bullied, and actually turn it into something fun and entertaining. Here are five ...
Digiday

Paul Berry of Rebel Mouse: Social Media Aggregation | Small ...
By Brent Leary
Social media has proved to be very beneficial to small business. Wouldn't it be wonderful to take that a step further by having all of your social media broadcasts available at a glance to you and your followers? Tune in as Paul Berry, former ...
Small Business Trends

AP names first international social media and UGC editor
The Associated Press has expanded its commitment to social media and user- generated content as global newsgathering resources, promoting Fergus Bell to ...
www.ap.org/.../ap-names-first-international-social-media-and-...

HootSuite to Launch Social Media Command Center; Master Control ...
HootSuite Social Media Command Center will be available to HootSuite Enterprise clients. If you want to be one of the first to hear about the launch, register ...
blog.hootsuite.com/social-media-command-center/

5 Tips for Using Google+ to Boost Your Marketing | Social Media ...
Google+: Learn how to boost your Google+ profile and increase your business's online presence.
www.socialmediaexaminer.com/google-plus-to-boost-your-ma...

Twitter agrees to pull anti-Semitic, racist posts after French lawsuit threat ...
Washington Post
PARIS — Twitter agreed to pull racist and anti-Semitic tweets under a pair of French hash tags after a Jewish group threatened to sue the social network for running afoul of national laws against hate speech, the organization said. The decision came a ...

On Twitter, Videos and Photos of the Aftermath of the Beirut Bombing
New York Times (blog)
... President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, the embattled leader, raising suspicion that groups aligned with Mr. Assad were behind the attack. Yorgo El-Bittar, a Lebanese journalist, was one of the first people at the scene and shared updates and photos on ...

Instagram now translating @mentions to Twitter
CNET
And that's why the hit photo sharing service Facebook bought earlier this year in a stock and cash deal then worth $1 billion has rolled out an update that attempts to better translate @mentions in such situations. "For photos shared to Twitter ...

Twitter blocks neo-Nazi group's messages in Germany
Chicago Tribune
The Anti-Defamation League praised Twitter's move, but said it needed to go further to ban offensive and hate speech in its terms of service. Compared to social media services like Google Inc's YouTube and Facebook, Twitter currently has one of the ...

Twitter suspends account briefly after UK pol attacks gay couple
CNET
The Twitter account belongs to the controversial Nick Griffin, Chairman for the British National Party Chairman and Member of the European Parliament for the North West region. Griffin and other members of the extreme right-wing British National Party ...

Nazi Twitter account silenced in Germany
Fox News
The Nazis' tweets are blocked only in Germany, under Twitter's policy of "country-withheld content," the New York Times reported, in a first for the company that, up to now, has been almost entirely hands-off in terms of regulating content. "We ...

Facebook to help overhaul ICT curriculum
Telegraph.co.uk
Speaking at Langley Grammar School in Berkshire this morning, the Education Secretary revealed the plans as part of a move to replace the current information and communications technology (ICT) teacher training courses with new industry-supported...

Telegraph.co.uk

Why Are So Many Facebook Profile Photos Purple Today?
Slate Magazine (blog)
More than two years ago, Mashable's Adam Ostrow wrote about Twibbon hitting the 1-million mark and was impressed by more than 90,000 Facebook and Twitter users sporting pink ribbons in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. He later called it...

Slate Magazine (blog)

Of course this Congolese rebel group has a Facebook fan page
Washington Post (blog)
And why not? M23 might be a rebel group operating in a war-torn region of Central Africa, but they've got to get the word out somehow, and Facebook penetration rates are rising rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa, though not yet as much in the Great Lakes ...

FBI uses Facebook to nab NY terrorist suspect
CNET
According to a court document found by Mashable, an FBI source used Facebook to communicate with Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, a 21-year-old Bangladeshi citizen in the U.S. on a student visa. Those interactions helped lead to his arrest ...

Twitter Blog: Announcing the Twitter Fiction Festival
By Twitter
Twitter is a place to tell stories. Often those stories are about news, or politics, or perhaps sports or music, but it turns out Twitter is a great place for telling fictional stories, too. As one professor from Michigan State University says, “Tweeting can ...
Twitter Blog

Should Politicians Be Buying Facebook Ads? [STUDY]
By Alex Fitzpatrick
A new study wonders aloud if it's wise for politicians to buy Facebook ads - but should its results be trusted? ... Different Instagram and Twitter Usernames? Your Life Just Got Easier 3. Like Tweet ...
Mashable » US & World

Facebook Wants YOU (To Build Android Apps On Its Platform) So It ...
By Josh Constine
View Staff Page Follow me on Twitter. Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products. He is currently a writer for TechCrunch. Previously, Constine was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, where ...
TechCrunch

Xbox unfollows Twitter & unfriends Facebook, apps 'retired' from ...
By Sinan Kubba
The Fall 2012 Update currently rolling out removes Twitter and Facebook from the Xbox dashboard, and Microsoft have confirmed the apps are officially being 'retired.' Speaking to IGN, Microsoft said it's "retiring the Facebook and Twitter apps ...
Joystiq

Facebook SDK 3.0 Beta for Android - Facebook Developers
We're happy to announce a major update to the Facebook SDK for Android that makes it easier and faster to develop Facebook-integrated Android apps. We've ...
developers.facebook.com/.../facebook-sdk-3-0-beta-for-andro...

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