Word: socializes
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...Facebook's attempt to clearly state its policy is prudent, as other social-networking sites have struggled with the question of users' deaths. MySpace in particular has had a difficult time with digital rubbernecking - during the site's heyday, a handful of well-trafficked blogs specialized in matching MySpace profiles directly to obituaries and posting the pairings online for all to see. By sealing profiles to family and friends and removing profiles from search results, Facebook assuages users' fears that they'll be fodder for online voyeurs in the event of their untimely demise - hopefully putting the issue to rest...
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Randomly selected Harvard undergraduates and their friends will report their popularity and flu-like symptoms as participants in a new Harvard Medical School study seeking to explain how social networks affect the spread of diseases...
...looking both at whether you’ve had the flu and where you are in the social network, we think you can get an early warning of an epidemic,” said HMS professor and Pforzheimer House Master Nicholas A. Christakis, who is conducting the study...
...know our own best interests. Sometimes we're too lazy to slog through the forms to figure out our own best interests. Often we're conformists; we assume the default must be the default because that's what most people do, and we're desperate not to be social deviants...