( Yesterday my friends sent an email to me. When I downloaded it and went to see, it appeared a lovely dog saying words to me. What a lovely image and a cute voice! So I just immediately went to the Internet to see what it is. )
Last semester, Mr. Mueller introduced a very good video to us and now I also want to share it with you, perhaps some of you have already known it. For the last year, it has been a highlight of the week. It charts the very real impact that the Internet has had on our lives and forecasts how it might develop as access spreads around the globe. Saying much, it is “BBC The Virtual Revolution”. Continue reading
Hamburg. In September 2010 a businessman was caught by a speed trap. According to his company, they had lent him a car but could not authenticate that he was actually the one who drove. Thus, an officer checked the businessman’s public facebook profile and immediately identified the suspect as the driver. This way the man got punished appropriately.
This is a true story. With more than 660 million user, facebook becomes more and more interesting for police, since they noticed that social networks are a tremendous tool in gathering information and identifying criminal activity. Especially in the United States police departments set up a facebook profile in order to check up on people but with a different aim… Continue reading
I love movies.
Going to cinema and talking about actors, characters, subplots and meta moments in films gives me a fuzzy feeling, because isn’t it nice to sometimes escape real life? 😀
To get all the geeky knowledge with which one is able to point out what the most interesting part of a movie will be (without ever having seen it) it is nearly compulsory to read a movie magazine.
My favourite magazine is EMPIRE, which is based in the United Kingdom and is coincidentally the biggest selling movie magazine there. I buy it faithfully every month and it costs me the horrendous sum of Continue reading
“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.”
That’s true, isn’t it? Especially since online shopping became popular, it’s so easy to get whatever you want or need. Let’s take a look: in the last two weeks I bought a couple of things online like concert tickets, a round-trip ticket, clothes, shoes… It’s not because I’m lazy that I buy almost everything online it’s just so convenient… I mean you can get everything from everywhere anytime you want. Continue reading
Facebook applications have leaked users’ personal data to third parties, not only recently but for a long time. According to the web security firm Symantec, Facebook apps may have inadvertently leaked millions of Facebook users’ personal data to third parties such as advertisers. Continue reading
When I first read Sarah’s blog–“THE BIG BLOG BUSINESS”, Twitter comes to my mind. Since online blogs have become significant in recent years, a new kind called twitter, which is more convenient, appears. So I go to Google Blog Search to see the development of the two. Surprisingly, many articles about comparison between Facebook and Twitter turned up. Continue reading
Reading recent posts like ‘Procrastination is the thief of time…?’ and ‘To be, or not to be.’ by NerdyLaura I was relieved that I am not the only one facing the huge problem of being an procrastinator.
The first time I came into contact with the term ‘procrastination’ was when I was in 8th grade. My English teacher was a fervid The Simpsons addict and she explained to us the meaning of the word ‘procrastination’ and told us that The Simpson’s moody Jewish Clown Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofski’s stage name ‘Krusty the Clown’ was an allusion to the term procrastination.
“Facebook is boring; there is nothing left to talk about.”
I have to admit, that I thought alike, but something changed my mind.
After reading Sarah’s blog post about Facebook and how business people and Facebook users alike can use it to either attract new customers or save money, I became interested in the things Facebook can do to improve companies’ chances to compete against other businesses.
Just like my fellow students who publish their post on this blog, I am quite intrigued by the fact that marketing and business is all around us and that things as ordinary as the social media site Facebook can help a business to have more success with their web appearance.
Hi everyone!
I´m one of the girls who will blog about business and IT related topics for the next couple of months.
Since this will be my first blog post I will write something about a topic everyone knows: facebook. But don´t worry I don´t want to bore you with facts and figures. No, I want to present some crazy stories that are related to facebook. Actually I read a lot of them but the following stories are the ones that surprised, shocked or made me laugh the most:
Because did you know…
…that facebook can save lives? Because in December 2009 a facebook post led to a kidney donation and in 2010 an English nurse clicked through her friend´s facebook pictures and suddenly stopped when she saw her friend´s child. She realized that one of the girls eyes was lit up white instead of red and immediately recognized that this could be a sign of cancer. Unfortunately she was right but this way she saved the girl’s life.
…that in October 2009 a 39-year-old Pennsylvania father was arrested for openly asking his 13-year-old daughter for sex over facebook?
…that a 20-year-old IBM employee in Canada lost sick leave benefits from her insurer because her facebook page showed “cheerful” photos while she was supposed to have a depression?
… that in march 2010 the Israeli army had to cancel a mission because a soldier had written “on Wednesday we are cleaning Qatanna, and on Thursday, God willing, going home” – even before it had happened?
…that in 2009 a groom updated his relationship status on facebook even before he kissed the bride?
So tell me, have you ever heard of it?
I guess by now everyone knows that we should take care of what we publish in the World Wide Web. One reason for that is, that we, the ones who regularly use social networks, become easy targets for online marketers because we share so many things in the web, which facilitates it to promote products…
But this is a different story and I think sooner or later I will come back to that topic when we talk about marketing or similar things but for now I will stop because I just wanted to give you a little introduction.
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