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...using a social network of over 12,000 people during a span of 32 years, Christakis was able to analyze the impact of this network on the clustering of drinkers and non-drinkers and the subsequent consumption of alcohol. He also examined the nature of social ties, noting that close friends and family had a larger impact on drinking than neighbors or colleagues...
...until three degrees of separation, Christakis concluded that social networks can strongly impact the way in which we act and the life decisions that we make concerning alcohol consumption...
...Facebook, the world's biggest social-networking site with more than 400 million users, defends its privacy controls. "The proposed new language in the Privacy Policy does not relate to the wholesale sharing of user data for commercial purposes as the minister fears," the company said in a statement, "but to a very limited proposal to work with some pre-approved partner websites." Facebook's European policy director, Richard Allan, has offered to meet Aigner to discuss the matter, but her spokesman says she still has "serious concerns...
...Facebook's tussle with the German government is music to the ears of its rivals in Germany. The country's biggest social-networking company, VZ-Networks, says it welcomes Aigner's initiative against Facebook. "It's remarkable she chose to voice her complaints by writing a public letter and by threatening to cancel her Facebook account," Clemens Riedl, chief executive of VZ-Networks, tells TIME. "By doing this, she demonstrates that the German government has no legal means to control U.S. Internet companies operating in Germany." As if acknowledging this itself, the ministry pointed out last week that rival German...
...earthquake, has been active on Twitter over the past year; he now has 33,000 followers. Recently he began posting birthday memorials for students who died in the quake. In a recent interview with CNN, Ai, who helped design the "Bird's Nest" Olympic stadium in Beijing, predicted that social media would one day overcome China's censorship regime...