Facebook and the disintegration of the human
Is Facebook a boon or cause for concern for the mental health industry? According to a New York Times article by Jan Hoffman referencing a study of the Facebook profiles of 200 university students in...
View ArticleWhen a Facebook Post Is a Cry for Help
By LIZ HERON In today’s connected world, it is not uncommon for high school and college students to use Facebook as a place to pour out their feelings, sometimes in intensely personal updates. Some are...
View ArticleAfghan Guys And Gals Meet Facebook To Facebook
By Farangis Najibullah April 11, 2013 High-school student Muhammad Akbar has never dated a girl in real life, but he’s got plenty of girlfriends on Facebook.With social and religious taboos restricting...
View ArticleTwitter and Facebook ‘addicts’ suffer withdrawal symptoms
Facebook and Twitter users suffered withdrawal symptoms when forced to go cold turkey as part of a scientific study into the addictiveness of social media, academics have found. By Matthew Sparkes...
View ArticleFacebook Users Fall for Stalker More than Sex Scams
by Leslie Meredith, TechNewsDaily Senior Writer April 18 2013 04:29 PM ET Are you dying to know who’s viewed your Facebook profile? Scammers bet you are and will tempt you with fake apps promising to...
View ArticleFacebook admits year-long data breach exposed six million users
By Gerry Shih, Reuters Facebook Inc has inadvertently exposed 6 million users’ phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorized viewers over the past year, the world’s largest social networking...
View ArticleFacebook leads South African social media up
Johannesburg:- Facebook has become the biggest social network in South Africa, seeing its strongest growth yet in the past year – and overtaking Mxit for the first time. This was one of the key...
View ArticleOnline Dating Will Soon Be Obsolete
By Amanda Hess We are living in a time of great transition for digital romance. A new study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, released Monday, found that 59 percent of...
View ArticleTo Wonder how things will compare online in 2016.
– Facebook is the top high-tech service platform in South Africa that has equal take-up male to female. – findings, announced in September, showed Facebook the most popular social network, followed by...
View ArticleSelling Your Bulk Online Data Really Means Selling Your Autonomy
By Evgeny Morozov In March, a Dutch student called Shawn Buckles placed his personal data on the market. He offered to hand over all of his most intimate electronic matter—e-mails, health records,...
View Article
