| Media Search: |
[8] The Ishimura Incidence (Let #39;s REplay Dead Space w/ GaLm) - Chapter 8
Social Networking Ahoy Follow me on twitter for occasional updates to what I #39;m up to http://www.twitter.com Follow me on twitch for a better chance to be notified when I stream http://www.twitch.tv
By: GaLmHD
Read more:
[8] The Ishimura Incidence (Let's REplay Dead Space w/ GaLm) - Chapter 8 - Video
Social Media Social Networking
Ragan Cheney, HR Consultant at Associated Financial Group, discusses the risks of employees #39; use of social networking in the workplace and ways businesses can avoid these inherent risks.
By: AssociatedBankNA
Original post:
Social Media Social Networking - Video
January 15, 2013:
I have long been puzzled as well as fascinated by the explosive growth of the social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook, MySpace, Linked-In, Pinterest, Twitter, Orkut and many others with fancy names on the Internet.
There are so many of them that research surveys have given up counting. The total number of netizens using them is incomprehensibly astronomical.
Just to drive home the near-ubiquitousness of the phenomenon SNS have become, I offer some salient facts and figures for all of which I have generally relied on the latest survey results published by the Pew Internet Project, Nielson and Nielson-McKinsey Incite and Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries.
As of 2012, fully 1.43 billion netizens or 25 per cent of the worlds population, are users of SNS, up by 19.2 per cent over 2011, and they constitute 69 per cent of Internet users.
Among mobile users, 40 per cent are SNS buffs. Of the total number of SNS users,, 63 per cent are men, 75 per cent women, with 92 per cent being those between 18 and 25 years of age.
To ladle out a few more facts: SNS are the greatest favourites of netizens who spend roughly 20 per cent of their total time online via personal computer, and 30 per cent of total time via mobile on SNS.
In particular, the time spent with social media on mobile apps and the mobile web has increased 63 per cent in 2012, compared to the same period last year.
Most users find the SNS convenient as a means of keeping in touch with existing and known friends and their relationships with them in constant repair (to borrow the words of the great literary giant of the 18th century, Samuel Johnson). More than17 per cent of users reached out to people they didnt know and 35 per cent to people who were friends of friends.
No person is an island unto himself or herself, and a human being craves for companionship, and opportunities to communicate and express him(her)self, besides being moved by an inner urge to forge new friendships as also networks with persons of similar interests.
Continued here:
Whither social networking sites?
Beast had a birthday last week. The First Dog of social networking live-in companion to Mark Zuckerberg and his bride, Priscilla Chan turned two. The proud owners baked a cake for the Hungarian sheepdog and decided to throw an impromptu party. Naturally, when it came time to compile the guest list, the couple turned to Facebook, the $67 billion company that Zuckerberg founded in his dorm room nine years ago.
To date, sorting through your Facebook friends could be a frustrating task. Although the site has a search bar, there has been no easy way to quickly cull contacts based on specific criteria. But Zuckerberg was testing a major new feature that Facebook would announce on Jan. 15 one that promises to transform its user experience, threaten its competitors, and torment privacy activists. Its called Graph Search, and it will eventually allow a billion people to dive into the vast trove of stored information about them and their network of friends. In Zuckerbergs case, it allowed him to type Friends of Priscilla and me who live around Palo Alto and promptly receive a list of potential celebrants. We invited five people over who were obvious dog lovers, he says.
For years now, Facebook watchers have wondered when the company would unleash the potential of its underpowered search bar. (Nobody has feared this day more than Google, which suddenly faces a competitor able to index tons of data that Googles own search engine cant access.) They have also wondered how a Facebook search product might work. Now we know. Graph Search is fundamentally different from web search. Instead of a Google-like effort to help users find answers from a stitched-together corpus of all the worlds information, Facebook is helping them tap its vast, monolithic database to make better use of their social graph, the term Zuckerberg uses to describe the network of ones relationships with friends, acquaintances, favorite celebrities, and preferred brands.
In the weeks leading up to the launch, Facebook executives were still trying to come up with a name for the new product. They were hoping to stay away from the word search, to distinguish it from web search. (Only a few days before the launch, one Facebook executive slipped and referred to it as browse.) But after hours of contortionism, they relented; nothing topped Graph Search. Its descriptive its search, Zuckerberg says. And the graph is a big thing. The idea is that Facebooks new offering will be able to extract meaning from the social graph in much the same way that Googles original search unearthed the hidden treasures of the web. People use search engines to answer questions, Zuckerberg says. But we can answer a set of questions that no one else can really answer. All those other services are indexing primarily public information, and stuff in Facebook isnt out there in the world its stuff that people share. Theres no real way to cut through the contents of what people are sharing, to fulfill big human needs about discovery, to find people you wouldnt otherwise be connected with. And we thought we should do something about that. Were the only service in the world that can do that.
The result is surprisingly compelling. The mark of a transformative product is that it gets you to do more of something that you wouldnt think to do on your own. Thanks to Graph Search, people will almost certainly use Facebook in entirely new ways: to seek out dates, recruit for job openings, find buddies to go out with on short notice, and look for new restaurants and other businesses. Most strikingly, it expands Facebooks core mission not just obsessively connecting users with people they already know, but becoming a vehicle of discovery.
Zuckerberg says that this is in fact a return to the companys roots. When I first made Facebook, we actually offered some functionality that was like this but only for your college, he says. Facebook then was arguably as much for meeting new people around you and exploring your community as it was for keeping in touch with the people you already knew. But it was such a hard problem to do it for more than a few thousand people at a time. We transitioned from connecting with whoever you wanted to primarily staying with people you already knew. But Graph Search is like the grown-up version of that discovery aspect. Exploring your community is a core human need, and this is the first big step were taking in that direction.
The first of many steps, that is. Graph Search will be improved based on how people actually use it. So Facebook plans a slow introduction, limiting the initial rollout to a small number of users. Zuckerbergs expectation is that by the time it becomes available to millions it will be considerably improved.
For example, he thinks he can make it easier to find invitees for a canine birthday party. We dont have the who has dogs field yet, Zuckerberg says.
See the original post here:
Social: Facebook’s Bold, Compelling and Scary Engine of Discovery: The Inside Story of Graph Search
15 January 2013 | last updated at 09:55PM
MCMC Chairman Datuk Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi said according to the survey, 65.5 per cent of the respondents agreed that the social networking was risky to children, while 28.5 per cent have not agreed and 5.9 per cent were neutral.
"I see children aged eight to nine, having Facebook and putting all sorts of information.
"When we ask the kids the purpose of social network, they would say to keep in touch with friends and find information," he said when presenting a paper entitled Law and Activism in the 21st Century at the Transformation of Security and Fundamental Rights Legislation Conference, here today.
According to a survey on social network purposes, he said 69.7 per cent of respondents among teenagers wanted to stay in touch with friends, 64.6 per cent to find information, entertainment (60.1 per cent), sharing experience (59.3 per cent), socialise (58.8 per cent), get opinions (53.7 per cent) while 12 per cent highlighted products and others (7.6 per cent).
Starting from friends, searching for information, having fun, sharing opinion and social. But irresponsible people also follow them and would try to influence the youth," he said adding that 85.21 per cent of penetration of online population have Facebook, and people aged between 18-24 were the highest.
Given the high percentage of children and teenagers using the social networking, Mohamed Sharil noted that parents and teachers were the most appropriate guardians to monitor their children's social networking activities.
He added that the survey in 2011 showed 92.5 per cent of respondents agreed that parents should regulate their children's use of Internet, 28 per cent voted teachers while 25 per cent put the responsibility to internet service providers and government, respectively.
Meanwhile, Mohamed Sharil said that there were six laws enacted to control online activities in Malaysia such as Communications and Multimedia Act, Computer Crimes Act, Copyright Act, Penal Code, Personal Data Protection Act and Digital Signature Act. -- BERNAMA
See original here:
Social networking risky to children: MCMC