Word: socializes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...heard that you’ve decided to make a movie about Facebook. Specifically, about how the social networking site grew from a little project hatched by a vindictive, fame-whoring computer genius into a global phenomenon with over 300 million active users...
...FlyBy are going to assume that you think this movie—which you’ve blandly titled The Social Network—is going to be a big hit. After all, you got Aaron Sorkin to write it. Insiders are apparently raving about it. You’re talking to Justin Timberlake about playing Napster founder Sean Parker. But we at FlyBy just got a hold of the script, and frankly…well, we’ll tell you what we thought after the jump...
...opportunity (one that you, Hollywood, have failed to seize) to comment on the zeitgeist of our times. Yet except for a scene in which a girlfriend demands to know why her boyfriend hasn’t changed his relationship status from “single,” The Social Network doesn’t even begin to capture the quirks and conventions of Facebook-saturated modern life. Perhaps that isn’t the story the script was trying to tell, but honestly, we think it would have been a better...
...economic benefit of marriage isn't what it used to be. In a chapter of a book newly out from the Russell Sage Foundation, Changing Poverty, Changing Policies, two social scientists show that the marriage premium has subsided since 1969. Maria Cancian, a professor of public affairs and social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Deborah Reed, director of research at Mathematica Policy Research, set out to study how the changing makeup of American families has affected the number of people below the poverty line. Considering how the rate of marriage has fallen and the rate of divorce...
...broke just a day after a damning report was released by the Victorian Ombudsman, accusing the national Department of Human Services of gross misconduct during the 2008-2009 year. The deparment frequently failed to run criminal checks on potential child carers; in one instance, it was found that a social worker had placed three children into the care of a convicted sex offender. To add further embarrassment, Victoria's Community Services Minister Lisa Neville only found out about the incest case on the day the paper ran the story. Australia's conservative opposition, the Liberal Party of Australia...