NetFamilyNews.orgFacebook unveiled its new, updated search tool today, TechCrunch and a massive number of other news outlets reported. Its name “Graph” is from CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s term “social graph,” which means it’s Facebook’s version of social-network search – search personalized by algorithms to users’ own social circles. Yes, it competes with Google’s personalized search results [...]
Facebook just caught up with Google+, Dropbox, and its own little sib Instagram (which it acquired last spring) where photo-uploading convenience is concerned. [I've found photo-sharing much easier and more fun since my kid introduced me to Instagram last summer.] My ConnectSafely co-director Larry Magid explains here how to use the new Photo Sync feature [...]
Social change agents used to go to “the press” (remember that?) to expose social ills and make things better. Now they go to social media. Stop and think about what a huge difference that is, in terms of the actors, the actions, the issues, and the medium. The social activists can now be anyone. They [...]
The all-time most popular “pin” on the social site Pinterest is a recipe for cheesy garlic bread, TheNextWeb reports, “with over 91,000 pins and 12,000 likes.” Thought you’d be interested in a fresh snapshot of the site that reached 10 million users faster than any other on the Web ever, according to WebDesignSolutions.com. The snapshot [...]
I’m tooting our ConnectSafely horn, here, but we had a launch of our own this week: that of our Google+ guide for parents. You can download the PDF at PlusParents.org, or read it chunk by chunk at the Google Safety Center. In it, my co-author and ConnectSafely co-director Larry Magid and I offer you a [...]
Google has just made its Google+ social networking service teen-friendly. What that means is, all the features that some 90 million Google+ users have now – Circles, Hangouts (group videochat), photo-sharing, games, etc. – are available to people under 18 but now with added protections in place. For example, the San Jose Mercury News reports, [...]
It’s good that ReadWriteWeb’s bookmarking “Where in the World People Do Not Use Facebook,” because social-networking practices are certainly in motion around the world. Another headline, in the Washington Post, reads: “Facebook increases dominance in non-English-speaking countries.” So let’s start with the interesting cultural notes in the ReadWriteWeb piece, near the top of which are [...]
In social media, the only constant is change. Remember those commentaries about how social networking was “trivializing” friendship by throwing all levels of acquaintanceship under the big digital umbrella labeled “friends”? Well, I always felt the commentators were taking what they saw in social sites a bit too literally and failing to understand how much [...]
The number of people using social network sites “has nearly doubled since 2008″ to 59% of US Net users (47% of US adults in general) and the population of social sites has gotten older, the Pew Internet Project found. “The average age of adult-SNS [social network site] users has shifted from 33 in 2008 to [...]
Disney was smart to acquire a property that gets online/offline community and social networking that involves family and school in the “real world” and can help Disney see there’s more to (kid) life than socializing in virtual, or imaginative, worlds.
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