Archive for October, 2008

Are stars humans?  Do they have private lives?  Imagine if everytime you attempted to go to the store, buy a coffeee or eat with friends and family they took pictures and asked for autographs?  Sounds tough.  But now let’s take it to the next step.  Imagine if someone was broadcasting, not just to their friend… »

In a BBC News article from October 17th I found the following… then the commentary
A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook.
We first send thoughts to the family affected by this.  Physical voilence stemming from comments, postings and updates… »

One of the ways, we as humans, like to communicate is still the telephone.  In the world of social networking, who knows the reality of who the other person is on the other side of your conversations is.  That is until you have met them in real life.  So how do we get to that… »

While we were recording Episode 9 of TheSocialGeeks podcast, one of the sites mentioned was UserNameCheck.com , a cool utility.  It basically runs through almost 70 social sites (last time I counted) and verifies if your desired username is available.  From there you could pick a new name that was open everywhere or go add… »

Interestingly enough, Oprah had a show on that brought up an issue of their child receiving unwanted text messages on the child’s phone.  While we make look at a simple text as harmless, the social pressure and stalking issue raises a thought.  How do kids handle and protect themselves from stalking via SMS messages.  it… »

SocialStalking: The act of a person, or group of persons to gain information about a person, with or without their knowledge.  If we look at actual definitions:
“the willful, malicious and repeated following or harassing of another person.”
“a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily“
Some people are actually stating they are doing this behavior… »