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Of those, 53 per cent said the launch of social networking sites had changed their behaviour - and of those, 51 per cent said the impact had been negative.

The research also demonstrated the addictive powers of internet, with 55 per cent of people saying they felt "worried or uncomfortable" when they could not access their Facebook or email accounts.

More than 60 per cent of people said they felt compelled to turn off electronic gadgets in order to have a break, with one in three of those surveyed saying they switched the devices off several times each day.

The findings about behaviour changes after using social networking sites came from smaller in-depth research which was then carried out by Anxiety UK.

Nicky Lidbetter, the charity's chief executive said: "If you are predisposed to anxiety it seems that the pressures from technology act as a tipping point, making people feel more insecure and more overwhelmed."

She said the charity was surprised by the high proportion of people who found that the only way to ensure a break from the demands of their devices was to switch them off, as they were not capable of simply ignoring their mobile phones, BlackBerry devices and computers.

Dr Linda Blair, a clinical psychologist said many people suffered increased anxiety because they failed to take charge of the demands being placed on them.

She said: "I think one of the key things is that people have begun to behave as though technology is in control of them, instead of the other way round. We can switch the gadgets off but a lot of us have forgotten how to".

Last year, a global study found that turning off mobile phones, avoiding the internet and tuning out of the television and radio can leave people suffering from symptoms similar to those seen in drug addicts trying to go "cold turkey".

Scientists asked volunteers from 12 universities around the world to stay away from computers, mobile phones, iPods, television and radio for 24 hours.

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Facebook inching towards job recruiting To launch its own job board after teaming with existing job-posting companies Press Trust of India / Houston Jul 07, 2012, 13:16 IST

Soon the popular social networking site Facebook will become a recruiter, as per knowledgeable sources, by launching its own job board after teaming with existing job-posting companies, the sources said.

Citing anonymous sources, media reports said that BranchOut, Jobvite and Work4Labs will be at least three of the companies that will pair with the platform.

Whether or not the job posts will display in the news feed is unclear.

Many bigger companies have career recruitment presences on Facebook already, but a centralised engine behind job postings and searches would feed the engagement metrics.

According to recent estimates, the job-posting market is worth about $4.3 billion and everyone would like to have a piece of it.

Last October, the social networking site initiated its move towards becoming a source for job hunters by teaming up with the US Department of Labor and three employment-related agencies in an attempt to decrease the country's 9.1% unemployment rate using social media, a project that may eventually include a Facebook job posting system.

This partnership started a new era of formal job hunting content on Facebook, which some recruiters already prefer over LinkedIn, for the first time.

As part of the initiative, Facebook launched a "Social Jobs" portal that makes easily accessible educational content and tools from its partners at the Department of Labor, National Association of Colleges and Employers, Direct Employers Association, and the National Association of State Workforce Agencies.

It plans to promote this page in the 10 states with the highest unemployment rates and Puerto Rico.

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Soon the popular social networking site Facebook will become a recruiter, as per knowledgeable sources, by launching its own job board after teaming with existing job-posting companies, the sources said.

Citing anonymous sources, media reports said that BranchOut, Jobvite and Work4Labs will be at least three of the companies that will pair with the platform.

With the rise of LinkedIn and its aggressive moves into social networking functionality having Facebook enter the fray is an obvious play for them. Whether or not the job posts will display in the news feed is unclear.

Many bigger companies have career recruitment presences on Facebook already, but a centralised engine behind job postings and searches would feed the engagement metrics.

According to recent estimates, the job-posting market is worth about $4.3 billion and everyone would like to have a piece of it.

Last October, the social networking site initiated its move towards becoming a source for job hunters by teaming up with the US Department of Labor and three employment-related agencies.

The move is to decrease the countrys 9.1 per cent unemployment rate using social media a project that may eventually include a Facebook job-posting system.

This partnership started a new era of formal job-hunting content on Facebook which some recruiters already prefer over LinkedIn for the first time.

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When its partnership with Google for news search expired July 1, social networking site Twitter did not have any counter plan to pull out the latest tweets for real-time news it is hugely popular for. To revive its search results and improve its search functionality for latest tweets on breaking news, Twitter announced enhancements to the search function on its interface July 6.

This announcement is in line with its move to review the search strategy post Google's exit from the tie-up. In addition, the social networking site takes a continuous effort to make life easier for account holders.

Reports from the PCMag.com indicate that some of Twitter's engineers hinted July 5 that big changes would be made to the search function shortly. And the changes that followed seem to adopt an algorithm that functions in a Google-like manner. While the changes definitely cater to the diverse requirements of users, they are yet to pave way for new trends in the search stream.

The announcement about the changes effected was made in ablog posting on Friday. The posting states that the social networking service provider endeavors to make the search operation simple to discover what is happening in real-time.

The enhancements introduced Friday enable search autocomplete and "People you follow" search results to Twitter.com. This apart, Twitter users will also receive related query suggestions, spelling corrections and most relevant search results to their updates that make it easy to get the desired results or get close to their desired results.

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Search autocomplete throws up likely terms to your search query that is very useful to follow the hashtag. Also, this enables selection of query from the dropdown menu as the query is entered even before you can finish typing it.

To Twitter's credit, the new features and neat display of results are quite good but they do not enable in-depth search in the archive. Though Tweets were available in the archive, any query posted to search within the archive had not been entertained till July 6. Future makeovers to the search function may enable such queries given the social networking site's constant attempts to improve its services.

With search results being tied to a time-bound order, many deep and archival queries may not be entertained for some more time. Twitter may not take long to address this feature given its zest for constant improvement.

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Bundaberg man Mark Cracknell, 21, and Nathan Hoad, 25, of Hervey Bay have founded a social video network.

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A BUNDABERG man is one of two brains behind a multimillion-dollar social networking website that combines the features of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

Mark Cracknell, 21, who attended Bundaberg Christian Collage and St Luke's Anglican School, and Nathan Hoad, 25, of Hervey Bay, have founded Kondoot - a social video network that also allows its users to broadcast to a global audience free of charge while also offering a means to connect with family and friends.

The two have recently unveiled an ambitious plan to raise $10 million through an initial public offering, after raising $3.2 million in a funding round led by US investors.

Mr Cracknell said he was by no means certain his company would have the same global success as Facebook, but believed it was filling a gap in the social media market.

The background to how the website got started has similar undertones to Facebook's success story.

Mr Cracknell and Mr Hoad met while studying IT at the University of Queensland and, along with some of their friends, they started talking about creating a social media website.

They believed that while there were several different websites catering to different social media needs, there was no one site that could service all of them.

"There was no combined platform, or one place to do things," Mr Cracknell said.

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