Five Reasons Social Media gets Gamed

It’s not too hard to connect this, which arrived in my inbox today:

with this, which arrived in my spam box today:

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The Big WoWThe Big WoW

Should people be allowed to be anonymous online? World of Warcraft developer Blizzard seems somewhat unde­cided. Earlier this week, it intro­duced a Real ID scheme that would force people to post under their real names on its forums. Following wide­spread protests at this movement of goal­posts — from pretty-​​​​much 12mn of

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Facebook and Geeks

A number of leading bloggers have said that they’re deleting their Facebook profiles on account of its recent changes to the way it treats users’ privacy, reports Read/​​Write Web. The changes have actually turned out worse than I reported a couple of weeks ago, when you could opt out of appearing on the new Continue reading Facebook and Geeks

Do These Numbers Add Up?

The recent Pew/​​Internet Millennials report suggests that young people are far more con­nected than any other age group. They are 50% more likely to have created a social net­working profile, 40% more likely to use Twitter and nearly four times as likely to have made a video of them­selves. They’re also avidly mobile – with 41%

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Everybody’s Heard About the Word

Word-​​of-​​mouth (WoM) has influ­enced all my mobile phone con­tracts, where I took my wife on Valentine’s day and the last jar of instant coffee I pur­chased. It has for you, too, probably. Maybe not those exact items, but you’ve been influ­enced by people telling you what they like.

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Facebook wants your Moon on a Stick

If Facebook were a country, it would be the fourth largest in the world, just after the US, but bigger than Russia, Brazil or Argentina. Two-​​thirds of ComScore’s top 100 US websites and half of the their global top one hundred websites have imple­mented Facebook Connect. So what’s next?

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