Word: facebooked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, MySpace has gone from freewheeling, easy-living Web start-up to establishment player. And as it reluctantly approaches maturity, MySpace has new challenges to face, securing advertisers and innovating new features chief among them. Oh yeah - and a pesky little start-up called Facebook...
...MySpace and Facebook differ: The rival Web sites had come to embody the two competing visions of digital identity online. MySpace represented the freewheeling spirit of the Web, where anonymity allows people to experiment with their identity and express their views freely. In contrast, Facebook represented a more structured view of online identity, where people authenticate their offline identity in the hopes of creating a community of trust...
Christakis and his colleague James Fowler at the University of California, San Diego, are now studying happiness contagion in perhaps the largest social network of all, Facebook. They noticed that people who smiled in their Facebook profile pictures tended to have other friends who smiled. This might simply be peer pressure at work, with members feeling obliged to flash a smile to fit in with the rest of the group, but Christakis and Fowler are investigating whether there isn't a more infectious phenomenon at work...
...Friend! After you friend your old fifth-grade crush on Facebook, try adding the Hotel Indigo Chicago Downtown to your network too. Facebook friends and fans of the hotel get access to a special booking link with a 20% discount built in. Convince that fifth-grade crush and nine other friends to become the hotel's Facebook friends, too, and earn a free night. Rates start at $149. 1244 North Dearborn Parkway, Chicago...
...Facebook • users of absolutely hate the redesign...