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Thanks to a new Google project, soon any website can be its own Facebook...
...What about Facebook? According to a study conducted at Penn State, people with higher friend counts seem cooler, more attractive, and more confident. Given the bizarrely circular nature of celebrity, in which you can become known simply by being known, Facebook seems like an ideal tool. In a culture where “friend” has become a verb, the acquisition of another recognizable acquaintance translates to enhanced social capital. Or does it? The Penn State study found that, once someone had more than 800 friends, people started deeming him insecure. It’s unclear how 800 became...
...Maybe it’s not the number of friends that counts, but how much those friends want to marry, spend days shopping with, or be handcuffed to you. Fortunately, there’s a Facebook application—Compare People—that can tell you these things. I receive dispiriting emails from Compare People once a week, telling me about my most powerful peers, or my most attractive qualities, or people it has found who are similar to me. These people seem to have nothing in common other than being poorly ranked in terms...
...Martin said, HUDS wishes to experiment with other mediums to cater to the varied communication preferences of students. “The more channels of communication you can open, the better you are,” Martin said. The most recent blog post announced the creation of a HUDS Facebook group and a Facebook application created by an undergraduate that rates HUDS food items. “All of this, of course, is an effort to share information with you and get feedback in the mediums where you are most comfortable,” Mayer wrote on the blog...
...case, the situation has troubling implications. The litigious threats are among a recent spate of well-publicized incidents in which conflicts that have failed to find mediation in the classroom have spilled into other realms, like the Internet or the courthouse. Like the Horace Mann case, featuring vicious Facebook groups aimed at high school teachers, Venkatesan’s move to a lawsuit and book deal represent a failure of reconciliation within the classroom. Student-teacher arguments are nothing new, of course, but these escalated clashes still suggest a lack of mutual respect and an inability to resolve disagreements amicably...