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China Wants to Buy Facebook

Forbes, 6/03/11, (LINK)

On Thursday, Business Insider reported that China is trying to buy “a huge chunk” of Facebook.

According to the business news website, Beijing approached a fund that buys stock from former Facebook employees to see if it could assemble a stake large enough “to matter.”  Moreover, Citibank is rumored to be [...]

July 5th, 2011 | Category: Chinese Technology, Social Networking, Technology, U.S. News, World News | Leave a comment

Pope Benedict XVI Uses Twitter To Debut New Vatican Web Portal

Appadvice.com, (LINK)

Pope Benedict XVI (born Joseph Aloicious Ratzinger) of the Catholic Church might be 84 years old, but he’s not afraid of embracing technology to promote his messages of faith to the masses. After launching the Church’s YouTube and Facebook presences, Benny’s taken to Twitter for the first time with the following message:

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June 29th, 2011 | Category: Educational Technology, Social Networking, Technology, U.S. News | Leave a comment

Facebook traffic plummets in the US

 Yahoo News, (LINK)

As its user ranks approach 700 million worldwide, Facebook traffic in the United States has dropped significantly, a sign that the social network behemoth may be on the way down, reports Inside Facebook.

According to statistics from Inside Facebook Gold analytics service — which gets its information from Facebook’s advertising tool — [...]

June 13th, 2011 | Tags: drop, facebook users, lower, plummet | Category: Social Networking, U.S. News | Leave a comment

Creator of Facebook’s new challenge: Eating only what he kills, literally…

When he’s not too busy connecting people across the universe, Mark Zuckerberg is pursuing a new “personal challenge,” as he calls it. “The only meat I’m eating is from animals I’ve killed myself,” says the Facebook founder and CEO.

It’s an odd dietary direction for the 27-year-old Internet billionaire, but since he has taken to killing [...]

May 27th, 2011 | Tags: Facebook creator hunts animals, killing animals, Mark Zuckerburg | Category: Social Networking, Technology | Leave a comment

Social Networks of the Rich and Famous

techradar.com May 14, 2011 (Link)

Many exclusive sites are invitation-only – you have to be moving in the right circles to join

 Facebook currently boasts over 500 million active users, with the average user connected to around 80 pages, groups and events. To many people, that’s a great reason to sign up [...]

May 16th, 2011 | Tags: elite networking, elite websites, famous social networking | Category: Social Networking, Technology | One comment

Is Social Networking Simply, One Large Illusion?

 

HotBedInfo, 5/16/11

In our everyday Lives, there are many illusions. Online, these illusions are further distorted. With the internet, it is difficult at times to know what is real and what is fake, or even a flat out scam. People can broadcast themselves to be whatever they want online, granted, this can be [...]

May 16th, 2011 | Tags: Written by Kyle Trottier | Category: Original Articles, Social Networking, Technology | Leave a comment