Category: social networking

Please Support SOCL in the Global Education Challenge

If you are a long-term reader, you may remember that in January, I applied for a grant from the National Science Foundation to produce SOCL, the Social network for Online Community-based Learning, which incorporates...

Clear Link Demonstrated Between Social Media and ROI

Edit: Yes, yes, this is April Fool’s. Deceiving customers produces the best returns? Lolcat consumption as a cost metric? Perhaps even most unbelievable, specific demonstrated value for using social media!?! The insanity! Recent research...

How People Have Bad Experiences on Online Social Networks

Recent research by Tokunaga ((Tokunaga, R. (2011). Friend me or you’ll strain us: Understanding negative events that occur over social networking sites. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2010.0140)) in Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social...

Surprise: Social People Use Facebook

New research reveals that social people tend to use Facebook more often than asocial people. I guess the Internet is not just for nerds anymore.