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11 Jul 2012

Do you really think that social networks make you closer to your friends?

I have been thinking about this topic so many times. Still, I am little confused. I can tell that 90% of my Facebook friends   are people that I know. But, very few were exposed to my personal life before Facebook. Guess what … those few do not contact me over the Facebook at all. We still prefer to use phone, Skype, or dates to enjoy in our relationships. Moreover, we check each other Facebook updates very rarely, mostly to keep up on their photos. Still, I have to use my Facebook account every day. Why is that if my need for friends has been fulfilled already?

Hm … In my opinion, the whole idea of small town effect that social networks have is the reason. I think that I use Facebook because of the need to be recognized in the bunch, or heard when there is nobody to listen to me. Is social network the best way to scan others and compare them with you? So, you can rank yourself better… and be satisfied or not with your own achievements.  My true friendships are placed in another, not virtual, dimension. After all, I think that social networks make me closer to what I want to be rather than to make me closer to my friends.

Is all this only freaking me out or there is someone else who would agree with me?

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15 Feb 2012

Social Media, Liability and CT Insurance

Hundreds of millions of people interact on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace and LinkedIn every day. Like any other new technology, social media brings enormous opportunities and benefits. The ability to communicate and interact instantaneously on a global scale 24/7 enables businesses to reach their customers directly and individuals to voice opinions on any topic they see fit.

Yet as the opportunity to tweet, message, share and “like” grows, so do the risks. As businesses and individuals navigate this shifting online risk landscape, they face a range of evolving social media related liabilities including privacy, security, intellectual property and employment practices liability.

Meanwhile, amid a rising number of high profile data breaches, government is stepping up its scrutiny of cyber security. This is leading to increased calls for legislation and regulation, placing the burden on companies to demonstrate that the information provided by customers and clients is properly safeguarded online.

Despite the fact that cyber risks and cyber security are widely acknowledged to be a serious threat, a majority of companies today still do not purchase cyber liability insurance. However, research indicates that this is changing. Insurance has a key role to play as companies and individuals look to better manage and reduce their potential financial losses from social media and cyber risks in future.

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27 Dec 2011
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FaceBook Chat Just Got Better


Be honest: has Facebook chat ever been your favorite form of instant messaging? For many of us, Gchat, Skype or even AIM are our preferred defaults. Now, a new gimmick is making us like Facebook’s built-in chat function a whole lot more. As demonstrated in the photo above, you can make the profile pictures of Facebook users and pages show up inside your chat windows.

Here’s how:

1. Start chatting with someone (pretty simple).

2. When you’d like to refer to a mutual friend or, say, Coca Cola, you dump their profile id (either their name or a string of numbers for those users who haven’t claimed their choice URL) into double brackets. So, that would be [[cocacola]] for a picture of Coke, [[zuck]] for Mark Zuckerberg and [[mashable]] for the logo of where your learned about this new feature, and so on.

3. Amaze everyone on Facebook chat with this cool new gimmick.

 

What do you think, will inserting your friend’s faces bring the end of the emoticon era, or will the Internet forever be dominated by the :-) face?

Source: Mashable.com

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