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How To Protect Your Photos From Third Parties On Facebook

On Friday, 29 April 2011, Facebook becomes owner of the publishing rights to all... more

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Facebook introduces send button

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Twitter in Focus: Seth MacFarlane

This week, we take a look at Seth MacFarlane's tweets.

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Facing The Face Of Facebook

The next election will be a Facebook landslide....Obama wins.

The film, The Social Network has forced Mark Zuckerberg to come out of the shadows, rather, his computer screen. Since then, it seems that Facebook, which I used to like, has evolved quickly into a mass marketing machine. I am accosted with invitations to utter nonsense making my email inbox seem like a spam free zone, which it is not. Gone are the good old days when long-lost eighth grade classmates would stalk me now that that they see I am no longer a fatso however they are. We see Mark Zuckerberg everywhere: Dinners, power meetings with President Obama or Kanye West, The Barbara Walters Special, 60 Minutes, The Real Housewives of Silicon Valley, well, stay tuned for that but you get my drift.

Hats off to Zuckerberg for changing the landscape of social media, but now it feels more like strangers are tweaking my viral nipples to attend their fundraiser or solo art show, a.k.a. things that I will never attend. Since Mark has decided to sell out, Facebook is evolving into a viral version of automated telephone solicitations. Facebook was instrumental at creating a sense of community, but now it is becoming a 24-hour advertising spam-athon. There are even websites and marketing classes that teach us how to promote our products via Facebook. Since Zuckerberg commit to giving away a large percentage of his money, maybe has he gotten buyers or sellers remorse and wants to bundle up more billions in true Donald Trump fashion? We have all become Social Media Climbers and there is nothing fierce about that. There is no intrinsic value to being barraged with offers and discounts. It is beyond contrary to a spiritual path and personal growth. Sure, I hope Obama and Zuckerberg craft the best possible platform to help secure his 2012 win for a second term. But outside of that, please take your invitation to the Hot Rod & Frequency Hookup and shove it.

Read more: http://imeanwhat.com/canyoubelieve/facing-the-face-of-facebook#ixzz1K58LdTHRThe next election will be a Facebook landslide....Obama wins. The film, The Social... more

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Debt collectors can't use social media to harass debtors

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You call this swill chile verde? (Why consumer review services like Yelp are useless) | Scholars and Rogues

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Twitter in Focus: George Takei

This week we take a look at George Takei's tweets!

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Funky British comic studio release manga comic about humans VS human-robots

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OUR NEW GOVERNMENT ( 2.0? ) IT MAY ALREADY BE HAPPENING !

Social media can recreate government? Run for cover all of you Congressional Judases!... more

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New Report: Digital investment in MENA to grow by 28% in 2011 according to Econsultancy report

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Twitter in Focus: Will Arnett

This week we take a look at the tweets of Will Arnett, Gob from Arrested Development.

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10 Ways for Charities to Use Twitter

Social media benefits aren’t just for businesses. Charities and philanthropic... more

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Are Facebook and Youtube making us ***holes?? – by comedian Lee Camp

Funny, smart stuff from comedian Lee Camp.

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Arab Spring Ultimate Social Media Guide

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Rrrewind: Social Media Popularity Now and Past - My Recommended Websites

Rrrewind allows you to check what is popular on each site for the current day, and for... more

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10 Strategic Changes the Newspaper Must Make to Reinvent Themselves | Local Social Media Marketing Platform

The newspapers are in a downward spiral. There are 10 strategic and critical changes... more

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Twitter in Focus: Stephen Colbert

This week we take a look at the American tweets of Stephen Colbert!

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Of Mirror Neurons And Social Media

Mirror neurons just might be the most exciting neurological discovery of the last twenty years. First described in 1992 in macaque monkeys by neurophysiologists at the University of Parma, Italy, mirror neurons may help explain everything from language acquisition to self-awareness. What are mirror neurons? The story of their discovery and what they do from Wikipedia: "...neurophysiologists placed electrodes in the cortex of the macaque monkey to study neurons specialized for the control of hand and mouth actions (for example, taking hold of an object and manipulating it). During each experiment, scientists recorded from a single neuron in the monkey's brain while the monkey was allowed to reach for pieces of food, so the researchers could measure the neuron's response to certain movements. They found that some of the neurons they recorded from would respond when the monkey saw a person pick up a piece of food as well as when the monkey picked up the food...thus, the neuron 'mirrors' the behavior of the other, as though the observer were itself acting."

Until recently, we've lacked a technology to allow us to safely monitor a single neuron in a human brain and evidence for the existence of mirror neurons in humans was only indirect, obtained through functional imaging studies (in which various areas in the brain lit up when subjects were asked to observe others performing tasks). But a recent study done in 2010 in epileptics was able to measure individual neurons firing and demonstrated that mirror neurons do, in fact exist, in human brains.

From these observations have come fascinating speculations. As Wikipedia notes, "many researchers in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology consider that the mirror neuron system may be important for understanding the actions of other people, and for learning new skills by imitation. Some researchers also speculate that mirror systems may simulate observed actions, and thus contribute to theory of mind skills, while others relate mirror neurons to language abilities. It has also been proposed that problems with the mirror system may underlie cognitive disorders, particularly autism. However the connection between mirror neuron dysfunction and autism is tentative and it remains to be seen how mirror neurons may be related to many of the important characteristics of autism." Finally, in his most recent book The Tell-Tale Brain, V.S. Ramachandran wonders if mirror neurons might not be instrumental in the creation of self-awareness, that in some way they enable us to form meta-conceptions of ourselves.

In addition, Ramachandran argues that the mirror neuron system may be what enabled homo sapiens to leap from gene-based evolution to cultural-based evolution. Cultural-based evolution, in Ramachandran's words, means simply that "a complex skill initially acquired through trial and error could be transmitted rapidly to every member of the tribe." He goes on to postulate that mirror neurons might explain the "great leap forward" human beings took between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago when our use of "fire, art, constructed shelters, body adornment, multicomponent tools, and more complex use of language" first emerged.

Culture evolved, Ramachandran theorizes, only because evolution selected for an advanced mirror neuron system in human beings, thus arming us with the ability to mimic and learn from one another. (It's not hard to imagine the evolutionary advantage the ability to learn from one another provides a species: just look at how human beings have been able to dominate the planet as a result.) In a neurological sense, then, culture could be considered to be the result of knowledge being transmitted via mirror neurons from one member of a species to another, a force that binds individual organisms together as one large organism. How that one large organism "moves" and what it "thinks" seem to be the byproduct of rules that emanate from the interactions of its individual members but that aren't necessarily discernible at the level of its individual members (analogous, perhaps, to the way the rules that govern the mind aren't necessarily discernible at the level of individual neurons). (An interesting side note: couldn't we consider the effect of culture as I've described it here, i.e., all the advances that arise out of collective consciousness and cooperation, as providing protection against environmental forces that would otherwise select out "undesirable" traits such as mental illness? Not that I'm in any way arguing we shouldn't treat mental illness, but in doing so, aren't we relieving the environmental pressure to select it out of our population?)

One interesting example of a culture arising from the interaction of its individual members all mirroring (or, rather, responding to) one another is the stock market. Pundits consistently rush in with explanations for why the market rises and falls (e.g., concerns about terrorism, uprisings in the Middle East leading to concerns about oil supply, etc.) but those are just educated guesses. Often the market moves in a particular direction for no good reason anyone can identify. But a good reason always exists, and in all cases must be related to the perceptions of individuals that spread (again, via the function of mirror neurons) to others "next" to them—who then spread those perceptions to others (via mirror neurons), the sum of which adds up to market behavior.Mirror neurons just might be the most exciting neurological discovery of the last... more

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