Tag Archives : Facebook

Twitter – The Adolescent Twitter is like an adolescent child. Talking none stop to anyone and everyone who will listen. Mostly, the content is garbled and non-descriptive. All the content is repeated over and over again until a point the original message is lost in translation. What’s popular or trending isn’t popular or trendy. It’s quick, simple and no attention span required. Facebook [...]

We are all aware that Geolocation is becoming big business for many mainstream businesses. If you cannot be found on Facebook Places, Foursquare or Gowalla you are behind the times. I understand Twitter is playing with the idea of utilizing their geolocation tags for business purposes. These services offer local businesses huge potential revenue streams, and the ability to offer locational discounts, [...]

Facebook Places has now been released in the US only and I’ve had a little time to play around with Facebook’s latest addition to its services. Firstly, Places can only be accessed via the Facebook iphone app and Facebook plans to release apps for other platforms including Android and Blackberry. Alternatively, you can access places via a brower at touch.facebook.com. There are three [...]

The media are reporting that Facebook will be making an announcement on Wednesday (tomorrow) detailing their location service. So what will this service look like, and how will we use it? This has been an anticipated move by Facebook for some time now, and I personally am surprised it has taken them so long to jump on the geographical location service, which is already provided by Google Buzz, [...]

How can you be lonely when you have so many friends on Facebook? Are you cursed by the social network generation of only having relationships with people you hardly know, or work colleagues that you would rather not know in person, let alone online? Has time move on from days when groups of friends got together in person for a night out or weekend activity? Do you feel pressured into having [...]

How will Social Networking websites look like in the future? Or more importantly, what functionality will sites such as Twitter and Facebook provide and how will we interact with friends, family and work colleagues 3 years from now. In the coming years, Social Networking websites will more likely become the hub or portal to all our online activity: 1. email: Most Social Networking already have [...]

Facebook is the most talked about web service, social media, and marketing tool around on the Internet. In Facebooks infancy, the social networking site is what the word described it as; a networking tool for friends to share information, photo and keep in touch with each other. As social networking has moved forward, Facebook has become a tool for marketing, branding, companies, products, and [...]

I was listening to the radio today and I heard a story about a women who used FaceBook to find her estranged brother that she hadn’t been in contact with for thirty years. This got me thinking about family members that you have lost contact with or even family members that you have never met but no they exist. So, I headed over to FaceBook to have a look at whether any of the major ancestry [...]