Location sharing mobile applications have become all the rage, but is there a point where perhaps you can give away too much information via your love of social media? While there has been a lot of debate about the ethics of the new social aggregating site Please Rob Me, it has at the very least shined a glaring light on some of the potential safety issues around location based media...
There was a time where every blog under the Sun had the ubiquitous “Digg” button so that you could vote their stories up on the popular news aggregation site, but seemingly over night those buttons got replaced with the Twitter ReTweet buttons from TweetMeme. What happened? What caused this sudden shift in the social landscape, and is there any way that Digg can recover its former...
Foursquare is all about locating people to socialize with when you check-in to locations in your area, but is there any point when you are the only person in your town playing? For those unfamiliar with Foursquare, it is a social networking service come game that launched in March 2009. The idea is that you can earn badges by “checking-in” to locations when you arrive at them. Say...
For years sociology and psychology experts have worried about people throwing themselves into virtual worlds inside of their computers . It has been a concern that people were losing their social skills by sitting in front of their computers and not interacting with people in real time situations. Wonder what they think now that you can do all of those computer activities from just...