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Alarming Social Media Trend: Self-Harm Videos (via SharkNotes)

This is disturbing. You know in many ways growing up without the Internet made things easier. I often hear myself saying how glad I am not to have grown-up with social media. I was a freshman in...

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How Online Marketing Drives Offline Success (via Trick Today)

This is a fun infographic. Gives you a brief overview of why Social Media is helpful for business mind share. I ran across this cool info graphic today in my Google Reader.  It come from KISSmetrics,...

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Why Zippers Have YKK On Them

What a pro-social philosophy! “Cycle of Goodness”, as he called it.  Namely, “No one prospers unless he renders benefit to others.” via Why Zippers Have YKK On Them.  Readers who viewed this page, also...

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Book Review: The Social Media Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know to...

Amazon.com: The Social Media Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Grow Your Business Exponentially with Social Media 9780982618516: Sherrie A. Madia, Ph.D., Paul Borgese: Books. I agree with...

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Economics Trumps Ideology (via Usna1957’s Weblog)

I had to read this post a few times to make sure I understand what they were saying. It seems like the author is saying that Apple is guilty because they have 60 billion in the bank. I don’t understand...

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Has Facebook Jumped the Shark? (via )

I’m no Facebook defender but it seems that people like variety more than anything else. Perhaps too many clone applications like Farmville have bored people so they are starting to look elsewhere. Over...

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Has anyone seen the Documentary called The Listening Project?

It is featured on Netflix and talks about how other countries perceive the United States. Many things they say make sense. It is strange that so many people both hate and love the US. I have had the...

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Canadians are the World’s Biggest Net-Nerds (via A Quantum of Knowledge)

Why are Canadians the biggest Nerds? I always appreciate websites that have research and new information. So maybe they have the best blogs because they have seen the most? A report released yesterday...

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Did StumbleUpon just pass Facebook for social media traffic?

Did StumbleUpon just pass Facebook for social media traffic?. Kind of came out of nowhere didn’t it? I think FB overwhelms people with the interface. I get more SU traffic than any other sharing service.

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Marketing to Women: Women Send 717 Texts per Month (via The Lipstick Economy)

I wonder why? Maybe women are just generally more social than men. I bet the majority of these texts are to other women. Trading Texting for Talking. Women text some 30% more texts per month than men...

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Thanks to FOA feds using social media in 2010

Federal agents use false Facebook profiles to monitor Web. I wonder why no news media broke this story? Thanks EFF.Readers who viewed this page, also viewed:

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10 ways to catch errors in thinking

I have been reading about bias in thinking and it occurred to me that it was too much to try to remember all of those situational bias. So I thought it would help to formulate some general guidelines...

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The Reason We’re Washed Up at Thirty (via Daughter of Omi’s Blog)

I once went out with a woman who expressed this feeling to me. She said that she was 33 and felt like she hadn’t accomplished much in her life. I can understand why people feel that way. It is not true...

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Facebook vs. Twitter infographic

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/files/2010/12/facebook-vs-twitter-infographic.jpeg. Nice breakdown of the people who use these services.

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Janrain: Facebook Has Eclipsed Google As Most Popular Sign-In Choice (via...

Facebook has really accomplished something hasn’t it? It took MySpace’s spot and looks like it might even muscle out Google/Microsoft as well. I don’t know if that is a helpful thing. Janrain, a user...

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The Ultimate Social Media Profile Chart SearchRank Blog – StumbleUpon

The Ultimate Social Media Profile Chart SearchRank Blog – StumbleUpon. This is the most Ultimate list I have ever read. Put aside several days to read and study this.Readers who viewed this page, also...

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Want sharp brain till old age? Social activity is the mantra TheMedGuru –...

Want sharp brain till old age? Social activity is the mantra TheMedGuru – StumbleUpon. Join a club or crash a party. Better yet go back to college and attend events!

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According to a PEW study going to college earns a person $20k more per year

Study looks at whether college is really worth the price – CNN.com. So clearly it is worth going to college if you can afford it and can graduate. I have had friends who graduated and did social work...

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Photo of the Day: The Blue Dragon » Design You Trust – Social design...

Photo of the Day: The Blue Dragon » Design You Trust – Social design inspiration!. Beautiful river! It does look like a dragon. Thanks for sharing this with us.  Readers who viewed this page, also...

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Bitcoin: the hacker currency that\’s taking over the web | Technology | The...

Bitcoin: the hacker currency that\’s taking over the web | Technology | The Guardian. I can understand the desire of people to have privacy. I wonder how we can have privacy and not enable money to be...

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