social networking
The new trend to unfriend
The New Oxford American Dictionary recently announced that the 2009 Word of the Year is “unfriend,” meaning “to remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site.” But immediately after this new word was unveiled, loyal Facebook users stormed Internet forums, many of them arguing that “defriend” is the more appropriate verb.
Putting yourself out there
Ever feel like you’re being watched? Recently, I watched a video on YouTube that I made 6 years ago with my friends from middle school. More interestingly, there were comments and responses from random people about our video (which I did not know was posted online). And last week, my mom told me about a Diwali show in University of Michigan for which some kids watched my previous Diwali performance on YouTube and performed it exactly the way I did. I felt both proud and creeped out, realizing that other people can have access to parts of my life that I sometimes don’t realize are public.
@studentGroups: Twitter frenzy
For those who have been living under a rock for the past few years, Twitter is a social networking forum that allows people to set up micro-blogs and track each other as they go about their lives.
Juicy Campus harmful to student community
You don’t have to watch “Gossip Girl” in order to know the damaging social prospects of gossip Web sites and the lengths people will go to avoid having negative information posted about them on the Internet. The discussion of other peoples’ flaws, secrets and personality traits offers nothing valuable or positive to the community. At [...]
‘Digsby’
I was watching the Super Bowl with friends, and the conversation meandered its way to lifehacker.com and a recent link from said Web site. This link contained a program for a free download called Digsby. At first, this program seemed heaven-sent.
Digsby combines all of your instant messaging programs, e-mails and social Web sites into one [...]
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