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Boston, MA (PRWEB) November 15, 2013

Garagesocial, the online social networking community for automotive enthusiasts and consumers, announced today that it will begin distributing private beta-keys this December 2013. Garagesocial is a new social network for people to discover, list and share their vehicles online. The site allows enthusiasts, vendors, racing professionals and bloggers to gather online and showcase their favorite vehicles on a centralized platform.

By creating an interactive and user-friendly interface, the company aims at Connecting the Automotive World through new and innovative ways. The site gives users the opportunity to build personal profiles for their vehicles with albums, spec sheets, descriptions and tags. Users can display the cars they have owned, currently own, wish they owned or have previously driven. Garagesocial users also have the added ability to buy, sell or rent vehicles through the site. Live Facebook integration and information legitimacy verification are a few of the advanced features offered by the networking site. The company plans to introduce company pages where vendors can sell and promote their automotive products online.

President and Founder, Maxime Rassi, describes Garagesocial as the universal key to a whole new dimension of automotive networking. Rassis personal project allows users to network with vehicle owners, locally or internationally. Rassi plans on creating the ultimate automotive social network, where enthusiasts can find and discover anything relevant to this industry on a single platform.

Recently, Garagesocial exhibited at the annual SEMA Show from November 5-8, 2013 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. A press conference and a live demonstration of the networking site was held at the SEMA Show Media Center. The Garagesocial team also hosted an Xbox competition, the winners were awarded an iPad Mini, iPod Touch or an iPod Nano. The Boston startup plans on exhibiting this upcoming March at the 2014 SXSW Interactive Trade Show in Austin, Texas.

For more information and a recap of Garagesocials SEMA events, visit the following: SEMA Pictures (all photos): http://bit.ly/1bniFbq SEMA Video: http://bit.ly/1bsQefY SEMA Brochure: http://sdrv.ms/1dnnzrS

About Garagesocial, Inc. Garagesocial is a revolutionary automotive social networking community for people to discover, list and share their vehicles online. Started in Boston, MA in 2013, the companys objective is Connecting the Automotive World through new and innovative ways. Garagesocial has representatives in Texas, London, and Paris and is actively seeking more partners.

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Social networking appears to be the best channel for monitoring, promoting, announcing and engaging like-minded people.

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are once again the top three social-media platforms, not just for individuals, but also for corporations and organisations. In fact, traffic on these three platforms has risen substantially in Thailand over the past couple of weeks.

According to Zocial Inc, a company that monitors and analyses social media, traffic on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pantip.com surged from October 12 to November 11.

It found that Twitter, with 800,000 messages, appeared to be the most used channel to convey messages against the amnesty bill. Also the Thai phrase "sud soi" or end of track/lane was the most frequently used term across the board.

Zocial also learned that the number of women discussing political issues had risen. Previously, the ratio between men and women in relation to politics-based discussions was 70:30, but this time the ratio changed to around 60:40.

At Pantip.com, there were more than 6,000 topics on politics, while a total

of 198,399 comments posted were directly related to the controversial amnesty bill.

Meanwhile, 2,382 photographs related to the fight against the amnesty bill were posted on Instagram, which won more than 500,000 "likes".

It is clear social-media will continue to have a dynamic effect on people's lives on a daily basis, with comments and ideas - positive or negative - going "viral" very quickly.

The latest message to go viral was one quoting Tan Passakornnatee, chairman and chief executive officer of Ichitan Group, in which he allegedly said the anti-amnesty bill protests were not large enough.

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A social media thread proved strong enough to pull a New Jersey teen back from possible suicide, according to authorities.

And it was a social networking first for officers from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department -- using Facebook and other outlets this week to track down and help a troubled 18-year-old whose three-word online posting seemed to say suicide.

"Thinking of jumping," the teen posted to his Facebook profile alongside a photo of the George Washington Bridge spanning the Hudson River.

A concerned Facebook friend who saw the post contacted police in Paterson, N.J., alerting authorities to the apparent suicide threat, according to Port Authority spokesman Joe Pentangelo.

The alert was just the beginning. Pentangelo gave this scenario of events:

Paterson police called Port Authority officers, who serve the major bridges and tunnels of New York and New Jersey.

A photo of the young man was downloaded from his Facebook page and distributed to officers searching the bridge -- unsuccessfully -- for the teen among the bridge's pedestrians.

An officer assigned to Port Authority police's emergency services, Lt. Thomas Michaels, set out to contact the young man through Facebook, leaving his cell phone number on the page and urging the teen to call him.

And Port Authority Sgt. Nadine Rhem also took to Facebook, sending more offers of support and assistance.

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At a time when West Nile virus is still a potential killer, health officials are worried that a reorganization plan by the Morris County Freeholders will cut mosquito control efforts.

The freeholders plan to eliminate the all-volunteer, Morris County Mosquito Extermination Commission and fold the paid staff into the county public works department.

The proposed reorganization is expected to go into effect after the freeholders January reorganization.

The plan comes not long after a 92-year-old county resident died earlier in the month after contracting West Nile disease.

Infected mosquitoes were first discovered on Aug. 1 at Donatoni Community Park on West Main Street in Rockaway. A week later, the park and surrounding woods, path and access road were treated by the mosquito commission.

As of earlier this month, mosquitoes carrying West Nile have been found in 22 pools, or collections of about 50 tested mosquitoes, in Morris County out of more than 250 tests performed this year.

Morris County Freeholder David Scapicchio, former mayor of Mount Olive, said the reorganization wont affect mosquito control programs but it will save money.

Nothing is changing other than were folding the office responsibilities into public works, Scapicchio said.

Scapicchio said that as part of the savings, the county will have to complete just one audit for both the mosquito control commission and the public works department.

Other potential savings are expected through centralized purchasing, vehicle inspection and licensing.

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LIFE was sweet for Michael Hebington in 1984. A waiter at some of New Yorks most glamorous venues, his busy social life included trips to night spots such as Studio 54.

But that summer he started feeling sick and a swollen gland problem wouldnt go away.

A visit to a doctor turned his life upside down. He had HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Back then, it was seen as a death sentence.

Michael, now 61, can look back at those days and be grateful that he is still here, after living with the virus for nearly 30 years.

The Scot said: My consultant jokes with me that I might just live forever, like the Freddie Mercury song.

I have tried to find people who have lived with this as long as I have and I have never heard of anyone else who is approaching 30 years.

I dont know why I have. Its just a flip of the dice, I think.

For some odd reason, as deathly ill as I may have been at times and having been sent to hospitals and hospices, I have never yet thought this is it.

But who knows, maybe you dont ever feel like that until it really is it.

Michael, from Dumfriesshire, was caught in the eye of the early HIV storm.

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