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  More Americans Finding Their Mates Online

  JP 1:44 am on August 19, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  It used to be that, if you wanted to meet that special someone, you had to chat up people at bars or go on dates set up by friends and family. Sure, there have always been personal ads and dating services, but they were generally considered the realm of the desperate. But now, social networks have turned the Internet into one giant repository of personal ads, and much of the stigma associated with online dating has disappeared. In fact, according to a recent study by Michael Rosenfeld from Stanford University, as many as one quarter of all couples first met online.

  Rosenfeld has called the Web the greatest technological shake-up the dating scene has ever witnessed. While the phone certainly was a game changer, it only allowed you, largely anyway, to stay in contact with people you already knew. The Internet, on the other hand, has turned people into their own matchmakers. Now, thanks to dedicated dating sites like OkCupid and Match.com, as well as Facebook, those playing the field are identifying and evaluating potential mates from the comfort of their computers.

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  More Americans Finding Their Mates Online

  JP 1:44 am on August 18, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  It used to be that, if you wanted to meet that special someone, you had to chat up people at bars or go on dates set up by friends and family. Sure, there have always been personal ads and dating services, but they were generally considered the realm of the desperate. But now, social networks have turned the Internet into one giant repository of personal ads, and much of the stigma associated with online dating has disappeared. In fact, according to a recent study by Michael Rosenfeld from Stanford University, as many as one quarter of all couples first met online.

  Rosenfeld has called the Web the greatest technological shake-up the dating scene has ever witnessed. While the phone certainly was a game changer, it only allowed you, largely anyway, to stay in contact with people you already knew. The Internet, on the other hand, has turned people into their own matchmakers. Now, thanks to dedicated dating sites like OkCupid and Match.com, as well as Facebook, those playing the field are identifying and evaluating potential mates from the comfort of their computers.

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  Social Networking Most Popular Activity Online, E-Mail Going Mobile

  JP 1:44 am on August 7, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Ever wonder what Americans are doing during those countless hours that they sit in front of a computer screen? Turns out that, more than anything else, they’re getting their Facebook and Twitter on. According to Nielsen, a good 22.7-percent of time online is spent on social networking sites. That’s a drastic increase from June of last year, when a reported 15.8-percent of time online was spent social networking. Surprisingly, Americans spend more than twice as much online time being “social” as they do playing games, which is the second most popular activity and takes up 10.2-percent of our time online.

  Since last year, the big losers are e-mail (which now accounts for only 8.3-percent of online activities), portals and instant messaging, all of which have seen significant decreases in usage, as evident from the chart above. Time spent e-mailing has decreased by 28-percent, indicating that perhaps Facebook and Twitter may be replacing AIM and Gmail as the communication method of choice on the Web. However, since Facebook and MySpace essentially have built in e-mail and IM clients, it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate “social networking” from other online activities. But e-mail still reigns king when it comes to the mobile Web; when people are out and about, social networking plays a distant third fiddle. [From: Nielsen]

  Social Networking Most Popular Activity Online, E-Mail Going Mobile originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Social Networking Most Popular Activity Online, E-Mail Going Mobile

  JP 1:44 am on August 5, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Ever wonder what Americans are doing during those countless hours that they sit in front of a computer screen? Turns out that, more than anything else, they’re getting their Facebook and Twitter on. According to Nielsen, a good 22.7-percent of time online is spent on social networking sites. That’s a drastic increase from June of last year, when a reported 15.8-percent of time online was spent social networking. Surprisingly, Americans spend more than twice as much online time being “social” as they do playing games, which is the second most popular activity and takes up 10.2-percent of our time online.

  Since last year, the big losers are e-mail (which now accounts for only 8.3-percent of online activities), portals and instant messaging, all of which have seen significant decreases in usage, as evident from the chart above. Time spent e-mailing has decreased by 28-percent, indicating that perhaps Facebook and Twitter may be replacing AIM and Gmail as the communication method of choice on the Web. However, since Facebook and MySpace essentially have built in e-mail and IM clients, it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate “social networking” from other online activities. But e-mail still reigns king when it comes to the mobile Web; when people are out and about, social networking plays a distant third fiddle. [From: Nielsen]

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  Facebook Child Safety App to Report Online Predators in U.K.

  JP 1:44 am on July 14, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  After hearing lengthy complaints and protests from child safety advocates, Facebook has finally decided to implement a new feature designed to help teenage users stay safe online. As Reuters reports, members between the ages of 13 and 18 will now automatically receive an invitation to add an application that allows them to easily report suspicious activity. The feature, which is the result of a joint initiative between Facebook and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), also provides advice and support about staying safe online.

  Joanne Shields, Facebook’s vice president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, acknowledges that the new app likely won’t be a “silver bullet” of Internet safety, and insists that “it is only through the constant and concerted effort of the industry, police, parents and young people themselves that we can all keep safe online.” British crime prevention minister James Brokenshire echoed Shields’s sentiments, maintaining that it’s still “vital that government continue to work with industry, police, and parents to educate children about the dangers they may face online.”

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  Facebook Child Safety App to Report Online Predators in U.K. originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  'Asmandez' Game Marks Iran's Entry into Online Gaming

  JP 1:44 am on July 5, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  When it comes to things like human rights and gender equality, Iran still lags behind much of the developed world. But, in terms of online video games, the Islamic Republic appears to be taking significant steps toward modernity.

  ‘Asmandez’ (or ‘Sky Fortress’) is not just another futuristic, sci-fi online game; it’s Iran’s first. As Game Politics reports, the game is set in a future world in which Palestinians humans have been forced to migrate to another planet, where they must wage war against bots in order to survive. The game has also been produced in English, and can support up to 5,000 users.

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  ‘Asmandez’ Game Marks Iran’s Entry into Online Gaming originally appeared on Switched on Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Too Busy to Meet People Online? Hire Someone Else to Do It

  JP 1:47 am on June 5, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Online dating, in theory, is supposed to make romance easy. It’s always been perceived as a convenient means by which shy singles or busy professionals could meet people without having to go through the hassle and stress of actually meeting people. In today’s hyper-connected age of chaos, though, even browsing through profiles and clicking a mouse is too much to ask of an online citizen weaned on a culture of convenience, or a high-level professional tethered to a BlackBerry. So that’s where online dating assistants come in.

  Whether they’re too tied up at the office, too embarrassed of their bachelorhood or simply too lazy, more people are enlisting third-party agents to scour singles sites and cherry-pick potential matches for them. Many firms, like Virtual Dating Assistants in Atlanta, even go so far as to compose user profiles, send e-mails to potential love interests and engage in correspondence until a first date is agreed upon — usually, for a fee of around $5,000. After that, it’s up to the client to go out and bring home the gold, even though the selected date may never know of the people who pulled the strings to make it happen.

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  Most People Track Their Reputation Online, Pew Study Shows

  JP 10:58 am on May 28, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  The indulgent practices of Google-stalking and self-searching both surfaced as soon as Google was born, and statistics from three years ago already indicated that over half of all adults admitted to Google snooping. The proliferation of such search engine spying — coupled with the innumerable amount of Web-related arrests, suspensions, firings and expulsions — has apparently inspired people to finally protect and cloak their online reputations.

  The Pew Research Center recently disclosed the results of an extensive survey that demonstrates that snooping has, unsurprisingly, continued to grow in popularity. But actively combating that surreptitious monitoring has also significantly escalated. Since Twitter’s new archive permanently stores individual tweets, and OpenBook now reveals Facebook transparency, diligently protecting online identities and social networking practices has become an absolute necessity.

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  Most People Track Their Reputation Online, Pew Study Shows originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 27 May 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Potential Employers Go to Google, Facebook to Dig Up Dirt on You

  JP 1:47 am on May 10, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  We already knew that employers and hiring managers do Web-based during the job-hiring process. There’s enough anecdotal evidence out there that you probably didn’t need to read Microsoft’s study that found 70-percent of U.S. hiring managers rejected applicants based on their online activities. But that tidbit of information is pretty useless unless you know where they’re looking (though you should probably not post anything online you wouldn’t want someone to see).

  More data coming out of Microsoft’s research on privacy and online identity management reveals that the number one stop for hiring managers is the good ol’ search engine, with 78-percent turning to tools like Google. But if you don’t happen to be particularly Googleable, you’re not off the hook… yet. About 63-percent of HR personnel also considered social networking presence and 59-percent then moved on to photo and video sharing services like Flickr and YouTube.

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  Potential Employers Go to Google, Facebook to Dig Up Dirt on You originally appeared on Switched on Fri, 07 May 2010 13:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Youngsters Really Do Care About Online Privacy, Study Says

  JP 1:47 am on April 19, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  With all the stories of college and high school kids who flagrantly post illicit photos on Facebook, or lose their jobs over lewd message board posts, it’d be pretty easy to assume that today’s youth don’t really care about online privacy issues. A new study from Berkeley, however, finds that, despite all evidence to the contrary, privacy actually does matter to younger generations of Web surfers.

  In a survey of 1,000 Americans aged 18 or older, 88-percent said they’d refused to hand out information online on the grounds that it was either too personal, or simply unnecessary. Believe it or not, the same was the case with 82-percent of young adults. The majority of those between the ages of 18 and 24 (84-percent), and of those between 45 and 54 (90-percent), felt that anyone posting a photo or video of another individual should first request the permission of said individual — even if the photo was taken in public. When asked if a corporate executive should face jail time if convicted of illegal use of online individual information, 40-percent of both 18 to 24-year olds and 35- to 44-year olds responded in the affirmative.

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  Youngsters Really Do Care About Online Privacy, Study Says originally appeared on Switched on Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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