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What happens when you mix egomaniacs, social networking, and wide spread media coverage?
You get Hati as it sits right now.
Soon as the earthquake hit Hati, Twitter and Facebook went nuts, some people even noted a slowdown in service from both sites.
But that’s because we care right?
Not really. We seem to be more interested in other people thinking that we care. What is a good cause if other people can’t see that you care about that cause.
Did anyone care about Hati before the quake? No.
Seriously, no. It is an island full of poor 3rd world black people. No one gave a fuck. It was still poor, broken and had it’s issues.
Lesson to you 3rd world counties. Disaster gets you noticed.
Until the next disaster, thanks to your egos for rebuilding Hati.
How Canadian and American youth are different
Young Canadians are dramatically different from young Americans, a new cross-border survey has found.
Canadians from 18 to 34 travel more, recycle more, charge more, play the lottery more, marry less, text-message less and rent more than their American counterparts, the Ipsos Reid study revealed.
Canada, eh.
“Americans come through as a little more grounded, more domestic. Canadians are more of the free-spirit type,” Samantha McAra, a 26-year-old senior research manager in Calgary with the polling company, said Friday.
“My friends and I, we’re renting, not married, have careers, like to travel. The environment thing, too. If someone doesn’t recycle, it’s sort of like you look at that person and they’re sort of judged.”
McAra wrote the questions for the survey, which asked 1,000 people on each side of the border to respond online. The traditional telephone poll wouldn’t work for a demographic in which 34 per cent of Americans and 19 per cent of Canadians only have a cellphone, she said.
GO USA!
McAra may be smack in the middle of the “emerging market group,” as she calls it, but even she was baffled by some of the 10 social networking groups on the final list, sites such as imeem.com and ning.com. But even they had six and three people registered, respectively, among those polled.
Facebook is the social networking site of choice for Canadians, at 81 per cent registered, compared to 57 per cent for Americans. In the U.S., 54 per cent are signed onto MySpace, compared with 23 per cent of young Canadians.
Companies are increasingly interested in the 18-to-34-year-old market, McAra said, because they have healthy incomes and the urge to acquire; baby boomers, on the other hand, have the incomes but not as strong a need to spend.
[Read More @ thestar.com]
Diddy seeks new stars of Facebook generation: “LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs wants you — a music star of the Facebook generation. He does not want a performer who can only sing, dance, or look good on TV , but one who can do all that, and social network.”
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(se: Perfect place to look for them. While MySpace is full of the social networking failures, Facebook is full of attention whores that are willing to suck dick do anything for a chance of fame. Hopefully this trend of making nobodies hardly famous for nothing dies off soon..)
we’ve traced that tweet. it’s coming from INSIDE the house.: “
Twitter has announced that they plan on launching a new feature that allows you to broadcast exactly where your tweet was coming from. That’s probably the most significant feature release for the tool since…ever.
Soon you’ll be able to see who’s tweeting in your hood, where your friends are, and where to get the best bbq.
Third party applications have made this generally available for those tweeting from their phones, but this will apparently be incorporated into the actual Twitter API.
This opens a world of promotional and development opportunities. Treasure hunts, location based promotions, and whatever you might be able to dream up that includes GPS and Twitter.
Some will likely be creeped out by this, some will love it, and the world will tweet on.
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(se: You can see where this one is headed…)
Back in the days social networks used to be called BBSes, and a lot of them shared the same features as the current social networks. We just have better technology now, and more people have embraced it.
However Facebook has a lot of flaws that are definitely turning people off. You will get your high school kids and college kids, and then as time goes on, those people will start fading off..It’s cool cause it’s new, it’s the fad, the cool kids are on it..oh hold on…the not cool kids are on it too..ooohh..the cool kids are now finding something else to make cool…
I have seen my married friends leave Facebook after poking around, my newly married friends leave Facebook together, my friends that are now in a serious relationship, my 30+ friends, my business associates and business friends that popped on to see what everything was about..
The users themselves are going to doom Facebook. Facebook used to be a tool, and now it’s a platform for tools. Meaning the users.
It used to be basic, simple, and clean. You could log on and keep in touch with your friends and family, you’d check multiple times to see if you got any messages, you’d see what’s new with some friends and then you’d log off.
Now you’re being mass added by people in order for them to boost their friends list, or for the to spam you. There’s an abundance of event invite spam, application spam, funwall spam, ringtone spam (a’la Myspace), and even spam from Nigerians.
It’s almost impossible to navigate on some people pages with so many applications, and walls, and general garbage that it’s not really worth using, because you’ll never be able to find that actual wall to write on, and you can’t even figure out what’s going on with them or their page anyways..
Facebook suffers from what Myspace is suffering from, and that’s basically making the system a free for all. I have been deleting friends like crazy, filtering out those friends that have separate id’s for their bands, their products, their Facebook super aliases, etc..
Deep down i’m on the verge of just deleting Facebook..
Well….
It has come to a point where I am just getting annoyed with the Event Invites that I am getting non-stop. As I used to promote a few places I am familiar with sending them out, but now it seems that everyone on the Toronto Facebook network is now a promoter, and worse, they are all promoting a bunch of the same invites.
Sure it’s not too bad getting invites for a few different events, but now I’m sure, just like myself, you’re getting multiple invites for the same events.
I’ve been speaking to Facebook lately, and this is something that they might consider changing, perhaps maybe charging money to send invites or restricting overall the amount of people you can actually invite. Personally it’s very easy for me to get 100 invites a week, which could be quite a pain in the ass. If I want to go clubbing, I know how to get on the list…
Facebook has offered a temporary solution though.
On the left side of your Facebook panel you have your Application menu, if you click edit, find the Events application, and remove it, apparently you will not get anymore invites.
I am going to see if this works, and perhaps I will save a good 10 minutes of my day that I can spend at Starbucks.
Just when you couldn’t get enough of the Nigerian scammers on craigslist…
Now they are invading Facebook..
…and you thought myspace was bad…
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