Every time you click on a "Like" on the Facebook social network, you are leaving a trace of your personality and your preferences, as an article published in PNAS magazine suggests today. Its authors, experts from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), demonstrate in a massive study with 58,000 users that it is possible to find out the age, race, level of intelligence, sexual tendency, political preferences, drug use, religion, basic personality traits and other information of any Internet user automatically tracking and analyzing what content stands out with a "Like" when browsing through Facebook.
Yoani Sánchez's trip outside of Cuba has created great excitement. This Havana-based journalist is one of the most famous bloggers in Spanish by Generación Y. She has visited Burgos to talk about social networks and freedom in iRedes, the III Ibero-American Congress of Social Networks and collect the Award iRedes Individual Category 2011 that I cannot collect in due course. We traveled there to chat with her about the Internet, social media, technology, and so on.
Mario Tascón is one of the fathers of the Internet in Spain. This specialist in digital media, social networks, data journalism and new narratives has created his base camp at Prodigioso Volcán, a strategic consulting company. He directs the "Manual of Spanish for the Internet, social networks and new media" of the Foundation for Urgent Spanish (Fundéu). His latest recognition: the iRedes Individual Category Award, "for his journalistic and digital career and for teaching us to write and watch on Twitter and on the Internet."
The latest version of the iRedes map that analyzes the use of social networks in Spanish has just been presented. The absolute leader continues to be Facebook, with 1 billion users, followed by YouTube, QQ, Twitter and Sina Weibo. In what position are the networks dedicated to finding a partner? And those focused on the world of work? We made a short trip through the data of the third edition of the map of social networks presented for the next iRedes congress that will be held in Burgos in the coming days.
On Internet Day, we put together five maps that allow us to visualize global Internet connections, the most frequent domains or how information is spread on Twitter, among other things.
In a typical month, Gen X adults, that is, those born between 1960 and 1980, have 75 contacts or face-to-face conversations, compared to about 74 electronic contacts through emails or social networks, according to the report 'The Generation X Report', produced by the University of Michigan (USA).
There are more and more Internet users who are hooked on social networks, according to the IV Annual Study of Social Networks published by the IAB-Spain association (Interactive Advertising Bureau). In addition, Facebook is still the favorite, and 96 percent of Internet users have a profile on this network.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
