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The Digital Self

Happiness is sensitizing colleagues to the security of their Facebook and e-mail and the wider implications

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Early adopters rejoice!

Y Combinator’s demo day is coming up next Tuesday, but one of its startups has given us all an early surprise to tide us over. Collections is officially launching the public beta of its content manager Mac app today with initial support for Facebook photos, Instagram and Google Docs. The free software aims to reimagine Apple’s Finder tool for the Internet age by pulling together your digital life into one convenient place. Think of it as a stripped-down version of Tweetdeck for content (e.g., photos and documents). It gathers together the feeds from your different accounts and lets you like or comment on the photos and edit the documents. (via Collections Mac App Combines Facebook, Instagram and Google Docs)

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Illinois can be more progressive than we give it credit for. Score one for that state in being the second to protect online privacy from the prying eyes of HR departments. C’mon, make some Illinoise.

CHICAGO (AP) — Seeking to guard the privacy rights of…

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This feature was launched Tuesday.

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Does this strike you as helpful or unhelpful?

…[I]f a friend spots a suicidal thought on someone’s page, he [sic] can report it to Facebook by clicking a link next to the comment. Facebook then…

The world just got smaller.

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Facebook Inc. and researchers from the University of Milan recently released a study showing that Facebook users are linked by only 4.7 degrees of separation. This is a significant…

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Last week, Facebook introduced new Insights for Pages. Take a moment to look at them if you haven’t already. I particularly like the Virality metric because it can helpful in determining what goes viral on your page. “Viral” is a very abstract term but Facebook has done a…

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“Digital Dualism” is the (somewhat quaint) notion that cyberspace and meatspace (to use cyberpunk’s language) are separate spheres. Research supports a notion of augmented reality in which atoms and bits coexist, and the latter augments and enhances the latter. In other words, Toyota is taking a cheap shot, unsupported by research, that contrasts the Toyota-driving parents’ “real” friends with their child’s “unreal” internet existence. Research consistently supports that friendships in the digital realm enhance those IRL (in real life). I think it also nicely heightens the differences between social science and journalistic approaches to the issues.

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This Toyota commercial is narrated by a young woman who gets her parents on Facebook because they supposedly are not social enough. While she scoffs at how relatively few…

Hello, all my friends and family IRL!

When social media first gained attention, I heard many people scoff that these online connections couldn’t possibly be real friends. Some even used “Facebook friend” as a synonym for shallowness, fearing people might trade face-to-face interaction for a virtual life online.

But many years, re-tweets, meet-ups, event invitations and birthday wishes later, the majority of the people I know now consider at least some of their online friends to be extended family. Which made me wonder — does social media actually encourage people to connect IRL, or “in real life”?

A Pew Internet and American Life Project report recently found that Facebook users have more close relationships and receive more support than others. They’re also more likely to revive dormant relationships and use social networking to keep up with close social ties.

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Whoops, and I have just simply and easily “reblogged” this on Tumblr. Double-plus ungood.

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Via The Machine Starts.