Category: Social Creatures
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Shaking Facebook
Surfing across the feeds I found this – an interesting find just as I was getting a bit tired of Facebook as well – dealing with very points that the article talks about. Most specifically 2, 3 and 5. In-box Contamination: Facebook works right now because you decide how big or small you want your…
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7 things about Facebook
It seems that EduCause has been on the ball with Facebook and they have one of their “Seven Things” documents available (thanks to Bill for the entire list). The crux of the document – points 4-7 basically come out to be: Creates identity and sense of belonging to a community Has addictive qualities (it’s Crackbook…
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Facebook to Yahoo?
Well, there are some rumblings that this might happen – Yahoo is the big contender, but Google might also be in the running – and with Google already having played with Okurt (it’s old super-geek social networking site), Facebook would be a nice way to move into “hip” culture. Either way, it’s going to be…
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Further reflections on Facebook
I’ve already mentioned that one of the things that I think really help people use and become addicted to Facebook is that people go to the site to socialize and without all the “bling” offered by other social networking sites. The focus on content is certainly starting to get diluted as there are an ever…
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Docs/Scribd – The Facebook App
I didn’t get the welcome screen, but they say that it’s not meant for plagiarism, but to help share work that has already been done and that is only taking up space on drives. According to it’s homepage blurb: Facebook Docs is a library of schoolwork where anyone can contribute. Over 50,000 documents have been…