Though Twitter's experiencing the fastest growth in India, Facebook moved passed Google's Orkut into the No. 1 slot for social networking there, with 20.9 million visitors in July, a 179% increase over July 2009, reports IBN Live in India, citing comScore findings. Twitter grew 239% year over year, while Orkut grew just 16% in India this past year. According to IBN Live, "more than 33 million … [Read more...] about Facebook passes up Orkut in India
Facts for parents about ‘Facebook child porn ring’
You may have heard a news story about a "Facebook child-abuse images ring" that has been reported mostly in Australia over the past eight months. It made headlines again today because the ringleader, a 45-year-old registered sex offender in the UK named Ian Green, confessed to 24 charges of making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children" and "has been jailed for four years," the … [Read more...] about Facts for parents about ‘Facebook child porn ring’
For perspective: Snapshot of Brazil’s social networking
Facebook's now taking off there, but Brazil has had a vibrant, more mainstream social networking scene for some time, maybe even longer than the US has – because of Google's Orkut. When danah boyd's new article about class divisions in US social networking reached Pedro Augusto of Brazil's Center for Technology & Society in Rio, he emailed her about how this works in his country; she posted … [Read more...] about For perspective: Snapshot of Brazil’s social networking
Americans’ social media use up 43%: Nielsen
The US's 43% social-media surge in the past year led "a substantial shift in how the country spends its online time," Advertising Age reports, citing Nielsen research. From June 2009 to this past June, "the time spent on social media accessed from PCs rose from 15.8% ... to 22.7%," with social networking topping the list of American's favorite online activity and gaming passing up email for the … [Read more...] about Americans’ social media use up 43%: Nielsen
Let’s avoid a ‘privacy panic’
Because media are increasingly social, media users are more and more public. So – although some publics (like Justin Bieber's or Taylor Swift's) are bigger than others – we all have publics now, as social media researcher danah boyd pointed out in the middle of the past decade. I hope by now that parents, or at least the parents who read my blog, have heard that what media users want is not either … [Read more...] about Let’s avoid a ‘privacy panic’