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...like to admit it, we’ve all done our fair share of it.However, for the small number of you out there that are completely unaware of this semi-shady social reality, a brief series of examples can serve as quick enlightenment. Creeping is nonchalantly perusing through the Facebook of that girl that sits across from you in section. Or strategically positioning yourself in the dining hall servery to be able to read the details on that guy in your house’s warm-up jacket, figuring out just what sport he got that classy gray DHA tuxedo...
Technology is another fertile arena. The tech news website CNET features a "spreadsheet of sunshine": a list of top Web 2.0 companies in search of software engineers, developers, open source technicians and other savvy staffers. Among the blue-chip companies hiring en masse are Facebook, Samsung, Intel and Research in Motion, the makers of the Blackberry. But it's also possible to flourish at high-tech companies without being, well, high-tech. "If you're in the sales side of technology, that's a pretty good place to be," Hoagland says. "Until we find bottom, what [companies] are going...
...alumni Bom Kim ’00 and Daniel M. Loss ’00. Its first seven issues were produced by the publication’s original owner, The Atlantic Monthly. In its early glory days, the magazine featured articles on everything from the ongoing legal debate with Facebook, a list of the most influential Harvard alumni entitled the “Harvard 100,” and a statistical analysis of the number of Harvard wedding announcements that made it into the New York Times wedding section. Manhattan Media, the organization that bought the magazine...
Meanwhile, back on Facebook, Steve Fox of San Francisco updated his status to tell friends that he let his 11-year-old son mark the ballot in the voting booth. "I think it left him feeling a lot more invested in the political process," Fox said. "He told me after we were done that he wished he were 18 so he could vote on his own." All day, the social-networking site's news feed twittered with users either complaining about the long lines or marveling at how quickly they got in and out. Many encouraged friends to vote, reminding...
There were also disturbing reports of partisan attempts to suppress voter turnout. Officials at Election Protection said messages were broadcast via robo-calls, text messages and Facebook to discourage young, first-time and minority voters. The tactics, the officials said, seemed suspiciously similar across more than a dozen states. "We're surprised at how ubiquitous it's become, and how sophisticated it's become," Greenbaum said, though he said he didn't have any evidence of coordination behind the various communications...