SHIFT: Social Etiquette in the Facebook Age |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 6:55 pm |
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A few years ago, social networking was something that was for kids, lonely adults, nerds, and perverts. Today, everyone uses Facebook. This is a positive development: Facebook is fun, and it serves as a virtual White Pages for all of your friends, telling you where they are and what they're up to at all times. But now that everybody's on Facebook, the stakes are higher: there's more potential for embarrassment and there are more people to rub the wrong way. The company is getting a lot of coverage these days, whether for its new applications, alarmist concerns about sex offenders or the pending lawsuit against the website's founder Mark Zuckerberg. But none of these articles will help you navigate the complex maze that is online social networking. Has a friend ever stopped talking to you because you wrote a cryptic inside joke on his wall that he didn't understand? Or because you posted a picture of him doing drugs and he's been expelled from college? It's a confusing world out [ Full article ] |
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