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		<title>Don’t Use Facebook If You Have Low Self-Esteem [Study]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ People with low self-esteem post more negative updates, which makes them less likeable. On the surface, Facebook would seem to offer important benefits to people who have low self-esteem. Sharing is easy and feels safe on Facebook, and sharing is an important way to improve friendships. Having a stable network of social connections helps to improve self-esteem. In reality, though, it may not work out that way. A new study conducted by Amanda Forest and Joanne Wood of the University of Waterloo found that people with low self-esteem tend to post too many negative updates, causing friends to see them as less likeable. The study will be published in the journal Psychological Science . Initially, the researchers, who have a special focus on self-esteem and how it impacts which emotions people express, thought that Facebook would be an ideal venue for people to go to learn social skills and improve friendships. People who have lower self-esteem typically find it hard to share their feelings in a one-on-one setting. However, Facebook allows users to share and have social interactions without the need for face-to-face contact. The researchers found that participants with low self-esteem often view Facebook as a chance to connect and interact with others in a safe setting without the awkwardness they often feel in live, in-person social settings. Participants were also asked to provide the ten most recent updates about their life that they posted for their Facebook friends to see. The updates were rated for negativity, then an undergraduate research assistant went through the updates and indicated how likeable they found the person who made the statements from the updates. Participants who had low self-esteem tended to post updates that were more negative on average. In turn, the assistants who rated their updates tended to find them less likeable than people with higher self-esteem. Although the raters did not know the people who posted the updates, according to Forest, a previous study showed that almost half of the friends people list on Facebook are strangers or mere acquaintances, rather than close friends. The study found that when participants with low self-esteem placed very positive messages on their pages, they received more responses from members of their actual Facebook friends list than they did when they placed negative or neutral messages on Facebook. However, participants who had high self-esteem got more responses from their friends when they posted negative messages. Forest and Wood speculate that this may be because, in both cases, these types of posts are more unusual for these users. The investigators concluded that, while people who have low self-esteem may be more willing to share on Facebook, they might not receive the same benefits from doing so that they would get from face-to-face encounters. This is because people may not be as willing to provide feedback on Facebook the way they might in person. According to Forest, in a live social setting, people may be able to pick up on a friend&#8217;s negative reaction to to something they said. “On Facebook, you don’t see most of the reactions.” Related posts: Facebook positively influences education, study says Facebook&#8217;s Effect on Interpersonal Relationships [Infographic] Almost Half of Facebook Users Have Profanity on Their Wall ]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Wrap Up Report: February 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Top marketing experts divulge their lessons learned and secrets on social media with everything you ever wanted to learn, from the basics to the most advanced techniques. Easily consumable in short articles, discover if your company should use social media and determine how to hire a social media agency (or if you should keep the position in-house). Dive into the latest trends, learn specific methods to gain maximum exposure from your efforts and define how to measure results. Download the February issue of the Social Media Wrap Up now and receive it in your inbox in less than a minute! Request Free! ]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook App Comparison for Your Smartphone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vsweatjj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Our lives are awash in the blue-white light of our smartphone screens. It is hard to walk down a street without bumping into someone, often literally, who is busily typing into their smartphones. More and more Americans are cancelling home phone service in favor of using their cell as their primary number. Servicing or even purchasing a non-smartphone is becoming harder and harder. Our phones keep our schedules, take our photos and videos, store our contacts, and –oh yeah– make phone calls. One of the primary reason we love our smartphones is the ability to keep in contact with friends far away. The pioneer application for this is of course Facebook. Facebook has altered the way this generation socializes. We can keep up with our friends who we may have otherwise fallen out of contact with years ago. Grandma can see all the photos from Junior’s birthday party in Time Square from her comfortable living room in Phoenix. A whole host of  apps have been spawned to give you Facebook on your phone. Each app offers different levels of access and features. Likewise each application has its own unique quirks and shortcomings. Let’s explore a few of them to better our understanding: Blackberry Facebook 2.0 beta Positives Facebook Chat – catching up in real-time New Navigation Grid – easier to find what you’re looking for Negatives Still sluggish for photos – don’t expect to thumb through an album quickly Bugs in chat app –these will likely be ironed out in the near future. Android: Friendcaster Facebook App Positives All in one app, instead of accessing some features through the browser. Tablet friendly taking full advantage of the larger screen Negatives Invasive notifications open the app itself despite what else you might be doing most of the time. Your farm will miss you if you don’t use a browser to keep up with it and your other games. Facebook Version 4 for iPhone Positives Games! You won’t have to open a browser to keep up with your farm and more Apps – access your favorite apps on the go! Navigation and Notification – Send a message or see your notifications or browse without losing your place in News Feed Negatives Scaling for the iPad causes spacing issues Comment bugs – sometimes the posts tease you from just off screen tapping around randomly will often fix the problem Related posts: The Facebook Obsession and Its Effect on Communication [Infographic] Facebook Profile Picture Statistics [Infographic] Study: Facebook photo sharing reflects focus on female appearance ]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media After Death [Video]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Addestyentemy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ With over 48 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute, 200 million Tweets posted daily, and an average of 90 pieces of content per user posted to Facebook every day, we are uploading our personalities, our thoughts, and our ideas onto the web, but what happens to these online personas after we die? Already services are offering options for this &#8212; such as IfIDie.Net &#8212; which lets you record a last video or Tweet to be posted once you die. Even Facebook&#8217;s recent rollout of Timeline allows users to make a digital archive of their lives. But SVP Content &#038; Exec Editor at Mashable, Adam Ostrow, takes it once step further in this video as he discusses the implications of these ideas mixed with machine learning, where computers can make intelligent decisions based on data. Ostrow notes that computers grow more advanced at analyzing content every day. He wonders whether a person&#8217;s death and the personification of their analyzed content can extend their life virtually. For example, what if we could program robots to act like a person based on their created content? This isn&#8217;t too far of a stretch. One site, My Next Tweet, already offers a service that will analyze all your tweets to predict what you&#8217;ll say next. What if Adam is right? Will we need to redefine our definition of &#8220;life?&#8221; Related posts: Fotoshop by Adobé Makes Fun of Media Beauty Standards [Video] The Ramifications of Social Media On Actual Social Interaction Perry Hewitt on Harvard&#8217;s Social Media ]]></description>
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		<title>Even in Tough Times, Language Remains Positive [Study]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NeteFositte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In this age of natural disasters, chronic unemployment, terrorism, public protests and housing foreclosures, one might expect newspapers and social media sites to be flooded with a deluge of negative words. Surprisingly, however, that is not the case. Researchers at the University of Vermont have found that the English language contains a natural positivity, meaning that even in troubled times, people use more happy words than sad ones. The study, entitled “Positivity of the English Language,” examined billions of words collected from Twitter, 50 years of music lyrics, 20 years of the New York Times and nearly six centuries of publications on the Google Books Project. From those sources, researchers singled out the 10,222 most commonly used words and hired a panel of subjects to rate, on a scale from one to nine, the level of emotional happiness each word inspires. “Laughter” received an 8.50, “food” 7.44, “truck” 5.48, “greed” 3.06 and “terrorist” 1.30. Words receiving a rating of 5 were considered neutral. When researchers then analyzed the top 5,000 words by frequency of use in each of their sources, they discovered that the rate of positivity remained pretty much the same over time. Whether the writer was a country music star, a sixteenth-century poet or an angsty teen complaining about homework on Twitter, happy words dominated the text. The study comes on the heels of another one by the same group of scientists that showed a two-year decline in global happiness based on the language contained in Twitter updates—a story that drew national attention. The researchers now say that while people&#8217;s short-term happiness has decreased, the language they use to express their discontent remains fundamentally positive—at the “atomic” level, so to speak. Even news articles about war, corruption and death reveal a “net happiness” inherent in English. Scientists say this universal “bias of positivity” in language reflects the social nature of humanity. Social contracts often hinge upon one&#8217;s ability to be pleasant and upbeat. Therefore, it stands to reason that a million years of language development would ingrain more positive words into our vocabulary than negative ones. The study&#8217;s findings support the Pollyanna Principle of 1969, which theorized that humans naturally use positive words more easily and frequently than negative ones. The study appears in the January 11 issue of the journal PloS ONE. Related posts: English Language Has Doubled In Size Over Last Century, Says New Study Ability to Gauge Emotion is Independent of Language, Study Says Building Language Skills More Critical for Boys than Girls, Study Finds ]]></description>
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		<title>The Definitive Guide to Integrating Social Media and Email</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ First off, social media usage actually makes consumers even more engaged with their email inbox. Plus social media users are likely to share their email-delivered content with their personal networks. That's additional juice for email campaigns. In the new eBook The Definitive Guide to Integrating Social Media and Email , find out how to: Discover where your social media audience is Use social networks to grow your email list Use email to grow social followers and expand your reach Develop the right content approach for each channel Tie it all together for integrated campaigns Monitor metrics and measure results Start making email and social media complementary marketing channels, and boost your campaign ROI. Download your copy of The Definitive Guide to Integrating Social Media and Email now! Request Free! ]]></description>
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		<title>Become A Social CMO.  CMOs Must Experience Social Networking To Lead The Brand Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ However, only 16% of CMOs think that it's necessary to become proficient at social media themselves to be successful leaders. Forrester believes that CMOs who personally participate in social media will be better at leading the new brand experience, and leading a new generation of cross-functional marketing organizations. Request Free! ]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Wrap Up Report: January 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Top marketing experts divulge their lessons learned and secrets on social media with everything you ever wanted to learn, from the basics to the most advanced techniques. Easily consumable in short articles, discover if your company should use social media and determine how to hire a social media agency (or if you should keep the position in-house). Dive into the latest trends, learn specific methods to gain maximum exposure from your efforts and define how to measure results. Download the January issue of the Social Media Wrap Up now and receive it in your inbox in less than a minute! Request Free! ]]></description>
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		<title>The Atlantic Meets the Pacific: Exploring Technology with Evan Williams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ceacalud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Twitter co-founder Evan Williams talks with the Atlantic’s James Fallows about social media and why optimism is a key ingredient for creating successful technology companies. Peggy Johnson of Qualcomm, Larry Smarr and Susan Shirk of UC San Diego follow with comments on the future of technology in China, the US and around the world. This program is part of The Atlantic Meets The Pacific series hosted by The Atlantic and UC San Diego. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Business] [Show ID: 22774] [ YouTube Video ] [ Audio Podcast ] [ Video Podcast ]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Network Analysis and the Dynamics of Web-Based Networking [Study]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>uribroggege</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ According to social networking researchers, the old saying &#8220;birds of a feather flock together&#8221; applies even in the vast realm of cyberspace. This is the topic of the recently published research findings of Dr. Cuihua Shen, an assistant professor at University of Texas Dallas. Her findings have been reported in a recent issue of the First Monday publication. Shen examined the community dynamics of users from SourceForge, a massive internet open source community. Shen conducted social network analyses on these users to determine the social motivations within the communities and the shaping of collaborations within these communities. Peter Monge, another researcher in the area of social network analysis who published &#8220;Who Connects with Whom? A Social Network Analysis of an Online Open Source Software Community,&#8221; discovered that users within Web communities determine which other users to interact with online. According to Monge, the choices of these users can reveal the motivations underlying the creation of these social networks. For the most part, Web developers who are considered to be accomplished and successful tend to form elitist groups with other equally qualified and accomplished Web developers in the open source software community. Unfortunately, less accomplished and successful Web developers have greater difficulty forming circles with more accomplished developers, so less accomplished developers tend to collaborate with individuals of equal or lesser skill. In some cases, less successful Web developers might have difficulty forming collaborative relationships with any other peers due to the disparity between the successful and less successful developers. Open source software is software that allows users to study, manipulate, and re-distribute the software without legal penalty. This particular manner of developing software encourages the formation of social networks within the Web development community. When developers collaborate on projects, a social network is formed within the open source software community. Shen and other researchers have used social network analysis to examine development of these creative ties and discover the dynamics underlying many social network interactions. Shen hopes that her recent research in the field will open the door for further studies about the creation of social networks and the formation of collaborative ties among users in the internet community. Related posts: Social Networking and the World [Infographic] Experts Agree: Generation Y Will Not Tire of Social Networking [Study] Interpersonal Communication In Social Media Leads to Higher Customer Satisfaction [Study] ]]></description>
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