Social networks are changing the way we communicate and relate to each other. Until just a few months ago, audiences measured the general interest of people on certain issues, now Twitter is one more tool for analyzing society. What has been the news that has generated the most tweets per second so far?
Are your students distracted during classes because of the mobile phone, for example accessing social networks? Instead of making this device disappear from the classroom, LectureTools proposes another solution: make phones part of learning.
Twitter has expanded the information offered by the user profile with an image gallery. The news comes a few days after the 'microblogging' service incorporated its own snapshot upload system. This gallery can be viewed in two formats: mosaic or detail.
The origin of social networks is found in the already popular "theory of the six degrees of separation", according to which any two people are separated by a maximum of six "intermediaries". The first to formulate the idea was the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy. Now Facebook and Yahoo! They have returned to the fray and have teamed up to try to prove the theory through an experiment on the internet.
David Kirkpatrick, 58, was one of the few tech journalists to bet on Zuckerberg and his Facebook. In his book The Facebook Effect, he reconstructs with great precision the birth of the first empire 2.0. In VERY Interesting we have interviewed him.
For many, social networks are essential in their life. Where to go out, what to do, how to look for work, etc. are some of the decisions in which our friends and acquaintances influence our decisions. Now an international team of researchers has shown that locust swarms are created using the same kinds of social media that humans adopt.
"Twitter is a good place to tell the world what you're thinking before you've had a chance to think about it," says Chris Pirillo. On World Social Media Day, we put together some original quotes about social media and its impact.
According to a recent survey by the American Life Project of the Pew Research Center, regular users of the social network Facebook are more confident, have more close friends and are more politically engaged, attending more demonstrations.
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.
