Posts tagged internet
ABC of Social Media
Your awesome Tagline
Along with many in the industry, we feel passwords and simple bearer tokens such as cookies are no longer sufficient to keep users safe.
The single most important decision we can make in a connected world is who to follow. - Stowe Boyd
Obviously, to enrich the connection!
(Source: recitethis.com)
![theatlantic:
Are Your Facebook Friends Stressing You Out? (Yes.)
The stress comes, Marder theorizes, from the kind of personal versioning that is so common in analog life — the fact that you (probably) behave slightly differently when you’re with your mom than you do when you’re with your boss, or with your boyfriend, or with your dentist. And it comes, even more specifically, from the social nuance of that versioning behavior colliding with the blunt social platform that is The Facebook. Behaviors like swearing and drinking and smoking, the study suggests, are behaviors that you (might) do with friends — but not (probably) with your boss. And, more subtly, language that you might use with your friends — in-jokes, slang, references to Breaking Bad — probably won’t track when you’re not with your friends. The awareness of that discrepancy — Facebook’s tendency to disseminate even highly targeted social interactions — leads to stress.
Read more. [Image: Shutterstock]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me5tfiBFMm1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Are Your Facebook Friends Stressing You Out? (Yes.)
The stress comes, Marder theorizes, from the kind of personal versioning that is so common in analog life — the fact that you (probably) behave slightly differently when you’re with your mom than you do when you’re with your boss, or with your boyfriend, or with your dentist. And it comes, even more specifically, from the social nuance of that versioning behavior colliding with the blunt social platform that is The Facebook. Behaviors like swearing and drinking and smoking, the study suggests, are behaviors that you (might) do with friends — but not (probably) with your boss. And, more subtly, language that you might use with your friends — in-jokes, slang, references to Breaking Bad — probably won’t track when you’re not with your friends. The awareness of that discrepancy — Facebook’s tendency to disseminate even highly targeted social interactions — leads to stress.
Read more. [Image: Shutterstock]
(via justbeingseriouslysocial)
Tomorrow’s cover today: concern about the clout of the internet giants is growing. But antitrust watchdogs should tread carefully.
(via justbeingseriouslysocial)
9gag:
An urgent appeal.
Cool story, indeed.
(Source: kellyoxford)
Aziz Ansari knows how to handle online dating/bullying via TEAM COCO
A visualization created by IBM of Wikipedia edits. At multiple terabytes in size, the text and images of Wikipedia are a classic example of big data.
(via justbeingseriouslysocial)
News photo of the day: South Korean rapper PSY does the Gangnam Style dance-step with Ban Ki-Moon before their meeting in New York. Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images.
Ban: “I’m a bit jealous. Until two days ago someone told me I am the most famous Korean in the world. Now I have to relinquish. I have no regrets.”
I love this, heart and Seoul.
Don’t pay attention to unfollows. People come and go, just focus on being your awesome self.
