My mom is on Facebook?

For a lot of youth, Facebook is a website to interact with their fellow peers and a way people learn about you, and at times, make judgements whether they like you or not. It is also a place that many teens consider a “parent-free zone” so they believe they can post what ever the feel…

Social media and your professional profile

I used to think that people who used social media just liked the attention…and even if that may be a little true, I have discovered that social media can help you immensely for your professional profile! For those who do not know which social media platform to “go professional” on, I suggest LinkedIn, one of…

The Elusive Bird’s IPO: Twitter

Don’t know what IPOs are? Ready a quick article about them here. Though there has not been any official information regarding Twitter’s IPO, there are rumors that the company may go public soon. After Facebook (FB) and Groupon’s (GRPN) stocks suffered heavy losses when going public, is it still worth it for Twitter to do the…

A constitution written on Facebook

It’s true! Well, almost true. At the beginning of August, Iceland’s new constitution was written by 25 ordinary citizens with help from social media. After their economic collapse in 2008, Iceland decided that their new constitution would not be written based upon their mother country of Denmark, but rather on the ideas stemming directly from…

Project 4 Awesome 2010

So I was on Twitter and I found that a lot of the people I follow had hash-tagged #P4A at the end of every tweet. I went on YouTube, and found out it stands for Project 4 Awesome! There were many videos featured so I clicked one and it led me to the channel of…

Facebook’s 25 traits

If you’re not familiar with Facebook, the social networking sight launched in 2004, you’ve probably been hiding under a rock. In the years since, the website has grown in popularity and is used frequently in everyday conversation. A video on YouTube regarding the website caught my interest. It’s called “25 Things I Hate About Facebook,”…