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Jan 6, 2010New York Times
One byproduct of the digital revolution is that trust is being assigned new meaning. According to the Internet and American Life Project at the Pew Research Center, one in five teenagers polled shares online passwords as a way to build trust and f...
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More in: Dating, Identity, Social Networking
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Dec 17, 2009San Jose Mercury News
In its earliest days, Facebook was primarily a white and Asian phenomenon. No more. In the first study of the race and ethnicity of its U.S. users, Facebook said Wednesday that blacks and Latinos have joined the social networking giant at a rapid ...
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More in: Social Networking, Race and Ethnicity
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Dec 8, 2009New York Times
Text messages are the new lipstick on the collar, the mislaid credit card bill. Instantaneous and seemingly casual, they can be confirmation of a clandestine affair, a record of the not-so-discreet who sometimes forget that everything digital leav...
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More in: Mobile, Identity
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Oct 7, 2009Wall Street Journal | Digits
When it comes to social-networking sites, women are more plugged in than men, according to data analysis by Brian Solis, president of Silicon Valley public-relations firm Future Works.
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Aaron Smith, a research specialist at ...
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More in: Social Networking, Women and Men
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Oct 1, 2009Wired.com
While detractors of social media often lament the amount of information that is posted online, social networks and other venues for sharing content with friends and family continue to grow and innovate at a rapid pace. As these services evolve, th...
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More in: Social Networking, Teens, Generations
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Sep 28, 2009Forbes.com
BURLINGAME, Calif. -- In a recent Q&A session with elementary school children, President Obama discussed the power of social media: "Be careful what you post on Facebook," he warned. "Whatever you do, it will be pulled up again later somewhere in ...
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More in: Social Networking, Generations
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Sep 27, 2009Times Online
TWITTER can be a tough crowd. When news broke last week that the profit-free internet phenomenon had attracted a $100m (£62m) investment and was now “worth” $1 billion, the reaction was almost as swift and harsh as that handed out to Kanye West af...
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Sep 19, 2009Salon.com
[From an interview with Dennis Baron, author of "A Better Pencil".]
... Computer socialization -- is this putting an end to face-to-face human interaction? Or does it let us expand our social networks when face-to-face communic...
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More in: Communities, Social Networking
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Sep 17, 2009Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Matching mullets, regrettable tattoos, metal mouths and goofy grins.
Such long-lost looks were never meant to be seen by anyone except those flipping through the pages of an old family album or studying the photo frames...
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More in: Search, Identity, Social Networking
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Sep 14, 2009ABC News
Nearly 40 percent of young adults have an online social networking profile and 60 percent of all teenagers do, according to research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Facebook is the world's largest online social network with more t...
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More in: Teens, Social Networking