Tagged: social media

Why Facebook Should Hire Teenage Girls

Facebook often seems to be playing catch-up. They released Poke, a video-communication app similar to Snapchat just days ago, and they payed nearly a billion dollars for popular Photo-Sharing app instagram. What do these apps have in common besides the use of the camera? A large portion of their original users were teenage girls. Their biggest partner, Zynga wasted hundreds of millions to buy...

Tales of Caring Sandy Hook Principal Who Lost Life Told Through Social Media

Today the Sandy Hook tragedy shocked the world just less than twenty miles from where I write this post, and we’re starting to get a picture of some of the wonderful people whose lives were so tragically taken. One of those people was the Newtown Elementary School’s principal Dawn Hochsprung, an active tweeter on education. Just look at what her tweets revealed about how...

Mashable Incorporates Micro-sharing- Are we losing the patience to read a tweet?

With 1 billion people on Facebook, and hundreds of millions more on other social networks, sharing has become the most important focus for futuristic web design, and the new technology, called “microcontent” utilized in the new Mashable.com design released today is one awesome major example of what that focus has produced. Here’s an example of microcontent in use. Say you’re reading a list of...

Mark Zuckerberg- The Nerdy Kid With Glasses?

I have no problems with nerds with glasses (all I’m missing is the glasses) but until this photo I had no idea that Mark Zuckerberg had the look down. Zuckerberg currently rocks the wardrobe of hoodies and sweatpants, but this photo posted by a family member on facebook shows it wasn’t always that way. Sorry this isn’t a longer post, but it’s my birthday....

Do YOU Know What Movember Stands For? 58% of People Don’t

Movember- Mustache, and November. Simple right? Wrong, because Movember actually means more than just growing out some facial hair to please your friends on Facebook. Let me fill you in about Movember. Movember is actually supposed to be an event to signify “changing the face of men’s health”. Movember Charities raise funds for such causes as Prostate Cancer. Unfortunately, the cause has been partially...