Facebook: for Finding Friends — and Foes
Hey, hooligan: Why are you bragging about stealing that hipster’s iPhone on Twitter? Cops use social media, too! Read more
Barbie’s Social Media ‘Glam-paign’ to The Pink House
Who is the most web-savvy, underdog candidate in the 2012 presidential election? Hint: she’s eleven inches tall, drives a Corvette convertible, and loves the color pink. Read more
Battle of the Sexes: Who’s Winning the Social Media War?
Women are from Pinterest; men are from Reddit. But when it comes to the industry as a whole, which sex is more actively tweeting, posting, tagging, and friending? Read more
London 2012: The First Social Media Olympics
Among the millions of people furiously updating their social networks during the 2012 Olympics will be athletes, who will offer fans a remarkable new kind of access to this year’s events. Read more
Technology Behind Bars at San Quentin State Prison
The @thelastmilesq tweets are a fascinating window onto the day-to-day thoughts and experiences of San Quentin’s inmates. The prisoners waver between hope and despair, alternately dreaming about the future and lamenting the mistakes of the past. Read more
Politwoops: Unlike Voters, the Internet Never Forgets
A new project called Politwoops is “the only comprehensive collection of deleted tweets by U.S. politicians;” tweets range on the embarrassment scale from minor (typo) to moderate (wrong account) to major (PR disaster). Oops. Read more
Planning for the Final Logoff With a Social Media Will
What will happen to your Facebook account when you die? How about all of those unanswered emails? Should someone let your Twitter followers know? What about your blog? Enter the social media will – endorsed by none other than the U.S. government. Read more
“The Ad Makeover” Puts a New Face on Beauty
Do you want to be beautiful? Of course you do. But you won’t be unless you slim down, tone up, slather your body with salves and ointments, and inject paralyzing toxins into your face. It’s the only way. Right? Read more
Dive Bar Guy: Sex Offender or Marriage Material?
Could that weird guy who requested to be your Facebook friend be a convicted sex offender, or is he just creepy? Now, there’s an app for that. Read more
Chinese Bloggers and the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon
In China, where Internet censorship is an industry, the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is a catalogue of government subversion. Read more