canada.com - 1/7/2009
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W hen esthetician Crystal Bell was fired via Facebook, she spawned a debate over"cyber sacking" and what employers owe their employees in times when electronic communication has become the norm. "I think it's going to be the way of the future, but for me it's not the human way to go," said Bell, ...
blog.facebook.com - 1/7/2009
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blog.facebook.com —
Today, we reached another milestone: 150 million people
around the world are now actively using Facebook and...
almost half of them are using Facebook every day. This includes people in every continent—even Antarctica.
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A Great Start to 2009
obsessable.com - 1/13/2009
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obsessable.com —
While Facebook has seemed like king of the
social networking sites for a while now , boasting...
the greatest number of new sign-ups, it's been engaged in a long game of catch-up with MySpace, one that finally looks like it may win in the coming year . The past year has seen a steady increase in
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Facebook set to overtake MySpace in U.S. popularity this ...
readwriteweb.com - 1/9/2009
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readwriteweb.com —
Last night at the offices of blogging software
company Six Apart, engineers and social media specialists from...
a number of companies large and small met to discuss proposed standards for the future of "activity streams" - the system of displaying ...
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Google, Facebook, MySpace and More Meet to Talk Activity ...
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Hired via Facebook, Fired via Facebook
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... “The former spa worker … had only been on the job for two weeks when she was let go with an electronic pink slip after failing to show up at a staff meeting on her day off,” says the Canwest News Service. ...
Hired via Facebook? Fired via Facebook
Techdirt —
We've seen stories of people being fired over email and even text message before, but now there's a story of a Canadian spa worker fired via Facebook (via Michael Geist). The woman still got dressed and went to in to work that day because she thought it was a joke. Using Facebook seems rather harsh, though she admits to being hired over Facebook and the firing was done via private message (as opposed to a wall post...), but it's no real surprise that a common method of communication eventually gets used this way. That doesn't mean it's not cruel, but I ...
Fired On Facebook
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... Poke: You’re Fired People are fired in all kinds of rude ways, but they typically don t make the news. Get fired via Facebook, though, and the world goes huh? Crystal Bell, fortunately, wasn t humiliated via any public communication; her boss sent notice via private message. According to the Calgary Herald , Bell, who d been employed at a spa only two weeks, skipped a staff meeting on a day she wasn t scheduled to work. This answers ...
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