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NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Do social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have a liberal bias?

"Internet users who describe their political ideology as moderate or liberal are more likely than conservatives to use social networking sites," a new study from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project says.

Pew divided its study between the overall population and the population of internet users. Among the latter, 74 percent of those identifying themselves as liberal use social networking sites -- as compared to only 60 percent who identify themselves as conservative are on social networking sites.

When expanded to the general population, the gap narrows slightly. Some 60 percent of those identifying as liberal use social networking sites, while 49 percent of conservatives fit that bill.

Does this add more fodder for complaints that the media is an elite, liberal enclave? Does it mean conservatives need to mount a big social media campaign?

Or maybe it just means liberals are in love with themselves, so they want to post about their lives.

(Editing by Chris Michaud)

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NBA players are showing their social networking savvy by utilizing Twitter and Facebook to communicate with each other and to fans about games and their lives. The players are using these platforms to respond to comments from fans about games and performance and even to each other regarding issues around the NBA community including wishing each other well when injuries occur or players are in a slump.

The NBAs Minnesota Timberwolves have a player that is getting just such attention. Ricky Rubio, one of their point guards has been in a bit of a slump. He currently has an average Player Efficiency Rating but has been losing the ball with a very high 22 percent turnover rate and has been shooting only 35 percent from the floor. Not good if you are a point guard.

So when Rubio injured his ACL on Friday night in a game against the LA Lakers there was a flood of legitimate and heartfelt sadness and sympathy for the rookie from his colleagues on the the court. A truly tough break with NBA playoffs still to be played and the excitement of March Madness in the air. Ricky will be working on his recovery and return but its heartening to know that the NBA community is so caring and that they are willing to communicate with each and with fans through these social networking platforms.

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NBA Players Big On Social Networking

Jakarta (The Jakarta Post/ANN) - Two leading Asian tech companies are looking to capitalize on the Indonesian market's zest for social networking this year, targeting to net at least 8 million local users for their products and services by the end of 2012.

Sean Zhang, Asia-Pacific director of Tencent Mobile Global, said that they planned to launch their products in the local market next month.

Tencent runs China's largest instant messenger service (IM), QQ, which had 711.7 million active users as of September 2011. The company also operates the web portal qq.com.

"Actually, the first thing for us this year is to introduce our QQ Browser and Qute," Zhang said.

Zhang added that the company's browser and its Qute messaging application would be "totally" cross-platform, as the products would be available for a variety of mobile phones, ranging from smartphones using the Android operating system to feature phones using Java.

He added that the QQ Browser would even allow users of lower-end feature phones to surf the Internet, while Qute would allow mobile phone users to message each other regardless of the model of their phones.

Only a few mobile instant messenger programs are in wide use in Indonesia, led by the popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) program, which supports messaging between BlackBerry smartphone users only.

Zhang added that Tencent was wanted to collaborate with local partners to ensure its products were usable by different mobile phone models.

"We try to cooperate with operators to provide very cost-effective products to end-users. There will be a data plan for the QQ Browser and Qute, so it will be very easy for users to use."

Zhang added that the data traffic generated by the products would translate into revenue for operators.

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Japanese, Chinese social media gamers mull entering Indonesia

Posted: Sunday, March 11, 2012 1:15 am | Updated: 12:29 am, Sun Mar 11, 2012.

Are you on Facebook? Keeping up with who all is getting married or having a baby? Perhaps looking pictures of a friend's grandkids? Then some wiseacre tells you that Facebook is a good way to find a job?

Can one still have fun and be an effective job seeker using Facebook? Allison Doyle of About.com has doubts. She said, "I used to think that job seekers could still have some fun on Facebook if they were careful about their privacy setting. Now I'm starting to think that unless you are super careful and set your privacy settings so your profile is almost in jail, it can be an issue when you're job seeking." One Facebook user told me, "Trying to job hunt on Facebook will either ruin my fun or lose jobs." Anthony, a dislocated technical support person, said about Facebook job hunting, "No way am I doing that -- too many dangers."

However, it is just as wrong to ignore social media in job seeking. More than half of employers now use Facebook to find employees, and 95 percent use LinkedIn. Twitter is used by 42 percent. A local county park director hired a new secretary who applied using Twitter.

"No one applied the old fashioned way by dropping off a r?sum?," he said.

Here are some tips when using Facebook:

Check your online persona. What picture will a prospective employer get of you online? Google your name using quotation marks. Some are surprised at what they find on line about themselves. What employers learn about you online can be a job killer. If you are using Facebook for fun and job hunting, present yourself as being rather square or PG.

Think of your Facebook profile as your brand. Make sure that information you want to keep private is not out there for the whole world.

Facebook job hunting is really networking. Don't think of it as something that new. It's the same networking that I taught in job search classes for 37 years. Facebook makes it easier to find jobs through the help of friends.

Have fun. Job hunt on Facebook, but be careful.

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BOB LANKARD: Using social networking

By Michele Dargan

Daily News Staff Writer

Updated: 7:56p.m.Saturday,March10,2012

Posted: 5:52p.m.Saturday,March10,2012

When Renee Boger attended a seminar on social networking for churches two years ago, she came away with one clear message.

In todays culture, making our presence (known) online is do or die if we hope to grow beyond our church walls, said Boger, communications coordinator for The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea. Its come to a point now that if you dont have a presence online, no ones going to know about you. Youre competing for people. If youre just a building, its not good enough anymore.

But having a website is now the bare minimum for any house of worship.

Island churches and synagogues are using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Meetup.com to interact with congregants and draw new people to their house of worship.

Boger said her job has changed dramatically from when she started designing and putting out the church newsletter six years ago. The Sunday leaflet, weekly Bethesda Happenings and the monthly Bethesda Bulletin are distributed electronically and on Bethesdas website.

My job has taken on this other side of social networking, with a good portion of my time spent updating our website, Facebook and Twitter, Boger said.

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Houses of worship tap social media to help build congregations, faith