Admit it, every once and again — maybe more — you check to see how many friends are still in your Facebook stable—just to make sure that shiny new number isn’t down by a few.
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Try this for finals week: stay off Facebook. A recent non-scientific experiment by a small Pennsylvania college shows that a significant amount of students felt less stressed out and were more engaged with their studies if they were banned access from Facebook and Twitter.
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This 19-year-old first pressed charges against her (ex) boyfriend and then uploaded pictures of her bruises to her profile. The idea, she says, is not only to expose him to all their friends, but to also encourage other girls undergoing abuse to stand up for themselves.
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Ever heard of “Super-logoff” or “whitewalling”? They are ways to designate what some teens have been doing in order to have total control over who posts what (and when) on their Facebook page.
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A new video demo has been released of the BBC’s concept for an interactive TV application, and as you can see, it has a specific social initiative that links to Facebook’s network, reports PaidContent. Running on Microsoft’s Mediaroom platform, the prototype of BBC’s interactive application has live video as well as on-demand video, featuring content from partners across the mainstream media outlets.
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