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What If Facebook were Real Life? (It’s Complicated)

For everyone who’s spent hours of time asking people they don’t even like to be their friends, writing on walls, or reaffirming the complications of their relationships, you’ll get a kick out of this YouTube video   that parodies real life.  It’s making the rounds of the viral videos, but there’s more to it than a […]

Facebook Becomes a More Gated Community

If you’ve been watching Facebook over the years, you know that it’s not the same place it once was. First a haven for college kids with a .edu address, Facebook expanded its community in both directions. Upward to accommodate the working world (a Facebook network can be your place of business) and downward […]

Why “Because I Said So” Won’t Work

Don’t we all wish that Internet safety was as easy as saying “because I said so, that’s why!”?
Somewhere around age 3 kids learn the “W” (Why) word as a rebuttal, and once they do, there’s no going back. And as they get older they’re more likely to follow the advice dispensed behind […]

Facebook: New Ease of Use Keeps Users Safer

I’ve always been a big fan of Facebook, believing that, in the end, its utility and magic would trump the downside. I believe that kids and adults alike will learn to rein in their most dangerous behaviors, and protect themselves online as well as off.
But I’ve always been vocal in saying that I thought most […]

Facebook Tries to Make Sense of the Senseless VT Shootings

On a Facebook group called Anyone Who Knew Cho Seung Hui, a reporter named Karen Park, with Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) in New York City is looking for Koreans from Virginia who knew Mr. Cho and would talk to the press. There are 57 members in her group now, mostly college students trying to make […]