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The age of 30 has become Facebook's largest user demographic.

Social media expert Michael McQueen, in what is described as the 'Levi's Effect', said teenagers were abandoning Facebook for other social networks such as Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.

McQueen said Levi jeans were a cool, young brand until parents' started wearing them and the same thing has happened with Facebook, smh.com.au reports.

In 2012, Facebook was the primary social networking site for teenagers but this year Twitter has overtaken as the number one site.

McQueen said that as teens' log-off from Facebook, people aged 30 and over were logging-in.

He said that the older generation began signing up in 2010 as a lot of these users were parents who wanted to spy on their kids.

He added that now parents were logging in to reconnecting with old school friends and people who live overseas and they have caught the Facebook bug.

Professor of Public Communication at the University of Technology, Jim Macnamara, said adults also turn to Facebook while on holidays.

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In the late 90s, the Philippines was known as the texting capital of the world. Our status has been updated recently as the social networking capital of the world, as more and more Filipinos populate social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

(In Doghousediaries quirky illustrated map, What Each Country Leads The World In, our country is leading in social media usemuch more preferable than Russia, known for raspberries and nuclear warheads.)

For a country plagued with natural disasters, social media has proven to be a very effective tool in mobilizing both government units and citizens to provide aid to areas in need.

The mother of all typhoons, Haiyan/Yolanda, left a devastated Visayas. Radio silence ensued as communication lines were cut off, and Taclobans terrain flattened. As the supertyphoon left the province in shambles, the social media storm surge began.

#reliefPH

Providing immediate relief to the devastated was everyones priority, and people immediately took to Twitter and Facebook to gather donations, goods and volunteers. Transportation was a problem, as roads and airports in Tacloban were destroyed.

Aid was ready, every able soul ready to lend a hand, but the logistics proved to be a nightmare. Again, people on social media offered up planes, ships and automobilesanythingto help.

Hashtags #reliefPH and #rescuePH, which have been used since Ondoy, are now standard hashtags people on social media use.

Calls for volunteers are ongoing, as refugees continue to arrive in Manila looking for food, comfort and shelter. Several Facebook groups such as Operation Salubong Villamor Air Base have been set up to help organize volunteers into shifts and duties.

#searchandrescue

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Jersey City, New Jersey (PRWEB) December 13, 2013

Jonathan Goodman, president of Halyard Consulting and instructor at The School of Internet Marketing, spoke to author Anita Casalina about her newly launched book, "Billions Rising: Empowering Self Reliance" for his latest podcast.

Casalina, an educational film producer and author, sat down with Goodman to discuss the origins of her book. Casalina explained that she wanted to explore the idea of moving beyond traditional systems of aid for people in poverty, and said that the book details the emergence of the self-reliance movement. Casalina also discussed her weekly radio show, which further explores the topic of self-reliance.

Goodman asked Casalina about how giving and designing technologies could help countries with struggling economies progress. Casalina discussed mobile technologies, particularly how mobile has brought people in poverty into the global conversation.

"Understanding the change in technology, making it easier for people to come up through the resources that we have, is really one of the great tools that I thought the book really presented." Jonathan Goodman

Goodman also provided key details in the interview about Casalinas current Indiegogo campaign. The campaign is raising funds to continue the radio show, complete a documentary, and create a mobile app. At the conclusion of the interview, Goodman informed listeners that his next podcast will take place in early December.

Citations: http://billionsrising.com/billions-are-achieving-self-reliance/anita-casalina/

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/billions-rising-self-reliance-foundation

To listen to the podcast, please visit http://www.spreaker.com/user/jonathangoodman/billions-rising.

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Apple has reportedly pulled a censorship-circumventing app from the Chinese iOS App Store. The app, titled FreeWeibo and developed through collaboration with Radio Netherlands Worldwide, is said to have worked around the government's censorship filters for content posted on the Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo.

The app is believed to have been removed due to pressure from the Chinese government, according to a Agence France-Presse report that was spotted by AppleInsider. Apple's app review board allegedly told the developer that its app was pulled because it violates local laws.

Apple has been criticized for allegedly bowing to government pressure rather than maintaining consistent App Store content guidelines. The company removed several other titles from the Chinese App Store in recent months, including an app with banned books and a utility that bypassed the government's Internet firewall.

"Apple's image of being a hip and trendy company is eroding -- the brand will hold little cachet for the consumer because of actions like these and in the long run that means less Apple devices will be sold," said a FreeWeibo co-founder who goes by the pseudonym Charlie Smith. "Apple makes it impossible for apps concerned with issues such as free speech or human rights to find a home in the Chinese App store."

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BEIJING: US technology giant Apple has removed an anti-censorship application from its Chinese app store on orders from Beijing, the software's developers said on Friday.

The FreeWeibo app is intended to allow users to read sensitive postings on Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter, that have been censored and deleted, one of its designers said.

Beijing maintains strict controls on the Internet, including a range of technical measures known as the Great Firewall of China, and weibo operators employ ranks of censors to delete contentious comments.

California-based Apple blocked Chinese app store users' access to the FreeWeibo app on November 28 following a request by Beijing, said Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW), which co-developed the software with Chinese cyber-activists.

Attempts by AFP in Beijing to locate the app on a Chinese app store account on Friday returned a message saying it could not be found, but it was located and downloadable from devices with overseas app store functionality.

Company representatives in China did not immediately respond to requests for comment from AFP by phone and email.

Apple has seen its global smartphone market share slip and has made China one of its top priorities.

A co-founder of FreeWeibo, who uses the pseudonym Charlie Smith, linked the move to Apple's "big business interests" in China.

"Apple's image of being a hip and trendy company is eroding -- the brand will hold little cachet for the consumer because of actions like these and in the long run that means less Apple devices will be sold," he told AFP.

"Steve Jobs must be rolling over in his grave. This is a 'bad karma' move on Apple's part," he said.

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