With more than a billion active accounts worldwide, it can be easy to forget that some people don’t use Facebook. A study by Cornell University researchers to be presented this week in Paris suggests that “non-use” of the social networking site is fairly common — a third of Facebook users take breaks from the [...]
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False Beliefs Persist, Even After Instant Online Corrections
It seems like a great idea: Provide instant corrections to web-surfers when they run across obviously false information on the Internet. But a new study suggests that this type of tool may not be a panacea for dispelling inaccurate beliefs, particularly among people who already want to believe the falsehood. “Real-time corrections do have some [...]
Disease Outbreaks Trackable With Twitter
This flu season you’ve probably seen a number of friends on social media talking about symptoms. New research from Brigham Young University says such posts on Twitter could actually be helpful to health officials looking for a head start on outbreaks. The study sampled 24 million tweets from 10 million unique users. They determined that [...]
10 VoIP Companies and Technologies to Watch in 2013
Just in time for the new year is your new guide to VoIP! This free guide from one of our top telephony experts details the upcoming trends in VoIP companies and technology in 2013. VoIP is growing and shifting; 2013 will see great advances in the convenience and capabilities of phone systems. We’ll tell you [...]
Study Examines How News Spreads On Twitter
Nearly every major news organization has a Twitter account these days, but just how effective is the microblogging website at spreading news? That’s the question University of Arizona professor Sudha Ram set out to answer in a recent study of a dozen major news organizations that use the social media website as one tool for [...]
Facebook Boosts Voter Turnout: 61-Million-Person Experiment Demonstrates Voting Can Be Influenced by Social Networks
About one third of a million more people showed up at the ballot box in the United States in 2010 because of a single Facebook message on Election Day, estimates a new study led by the University of California, San Diego. An example of the social “get out the vote” message shown to more than [...]
The Jacket That Talks to Facebook in an Emergency
In an emergency situation, we cannot expect rescue crews to do their jobs while fumbling with a tiny mobile phone when they need to read and send messages. Instead the scientists decided to create a prototype jacket that could communicate with Facebook. The jacket sleeve has a display sewn into it, showing a line of [...]
Best Business-to-Business Facts About Social Media Use
In Stowe Boyd’s interesting post on social media boundaries titled, “In Texas, You’re On Your Own” he lists a few truisms that resonate with a once-upon-a-time Texan who misses many parts of the state’s unique brand of togetherness: First, for employers: You shouldn’t fire employees who are expressing lawful opinions that you do not agree [...]
Man faces 5 years in prison for ‘God does not exist’ Facebook post
Yes, you read the headline correctly. A man in Indonesia declared himself an atheist on Facebook, received 1,700 “thumbs-up”, and now faces a 5-year prison sentence, all after being attacked and beaten by an angry, and apparently God-fearing, mob of protestors. While the posting has now been removed, many Islamic organizations believed that the man [...]
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