When was the last time you ate at a restaurant without pausing to take a photo of your food first? Quick, check your Twitter feed or Facebook photo albums: how many of those photographs are of memorable meals or great restaurants? If the answer is “a lot,” you’re not alone.
“Why so drastic?” This was the initial response when I announced over a month ago to my email contacts that I had deleted my Facebook account and was giving my cell phone a limited life span. Those who knew me well enough did not ask for details. It was a heart-and-gut-driven decision (too much going on in the head to lengthily process the pros and cons).
Facebook's big stock offering on Wall Street must be followed by an intensive debate on Main Street about social media's powerful impact on children, an expert on the topic says.
Don’t be quick to dismiss BlackBerry just yet: If the upbeat mood at the recent BlackBerry World Conference 2012 was indicative of its future, the smartphone pioneer is still very much in the game.
I am horrible when it comes to technology. So I guess it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that I’m not a techie parent. However, last week, I heard a short talk about parenting in the digital age and felt like everything the speaker was saying was aimed directly at me! “This is your children’s time, not yours” and “Be open or get left behind” were some of the zingers I felt hitting me. I still have my own ideas and beliefs about parenting and technology, but I thought I would ask some parents how they feel about it. Since June is the month of the fathers, let’s hear what the men have to say.
We use social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and blogs to virtually “connect” with people, updating each other with regular status reports and giving (and receiving) feedback about them. Social networking sites readily provide us with what we personally, professionally and socially need—and everything for free.
App developer JP Loh (@jploh) and social media strategists Ros Juan (@juanxi) and Tonyo Cruz (@tonyocruz) know the power of Twitter.
Margaret (@derpinya) A lot of people worked hard and even risked their lives just for us to get the freedom...
Long before smartphones turned so many of us into amateur photographers and revolutionized how we depict each other through social media, there were the works of French Impressionist Edouard Manet.
When Canada's ambassador to China posted photos of his car on the embassy's Twitter-like weibo page, the instant, mass response boosted his country's image in a way that surely stunned many diplomats.
