Tag: Facebook

  • Social trajectories and the ones that matter

    This chart showing the share of time spent online by US social networkers is interesting in that Facebook’s usage-growth trajectory is consistent over quite a long period, three years or so. The overall picture suggests that there are only two…

  • The ugliness of social media

    It’s a concise article in The Guardian but it’s powerful, shining a light on a truly ugly side of human behaviour. The subject is rape and, as the article’s subtitle so aptly puts it, how social media channels like Facebook…

  • Rebooting Facebook

    As more than 100,000 others did, I sat at a computer last evening to watch the live video stream of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg deliver his keynote speech at the start of f8, Facebook’s annual developer conference in San Francisco.…

  • How to stay safe and secure on Facebook

    Facebook has just published a handy guide to help you do all you can to stay safe and secure when you are online and using the social networking site. Available on free download, the 14-page PDF entitled "A Guide to…

  • Criticism of Burson Marsteller now a firehose

    The kerfuffle surrounding PR firm Burson Marsteller and its poorly-planned and -executed blogger outreach on behalf of its client Facebook continues apace, on Facebook. Swift recap: Last week, Burson was caught out in what many critics see as unethical business…