online.wsj.com - 12/25/2008
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JESSICA E. VASCELLARO JoAna Swan recently purged her profile on social-networking site Facebook Inc. of friends she hadn't spoken to for a while. A week later, Ms. Swan, a 21-year-old student at Pace University in Manhattan, ran into a woman she had dropped. Crammed next to Ms. Swan in an ...
squaredpeg.com - 12/21/2008
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squaredpeg.com —
I really need you to listen up for
this post. Please . Something is going down on...
Facebook, and it has implications for your school. Several weeks ago I was contacted by my friend and colleague Michelle at Winthrop about some questions pertaining to ...
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There’s something going down on Facebook. Pay ...
insidefacebook.com - 12/30/2008
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insidefacebook.com —
It was one year ago last week that
Facebook announced the beta test of its Facebook Platform...
payment system that would allow applications to start accepting payments from users directly inside their Facebook apps. However, one year later, Facebook ...
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Not Coming Soon: Facebook Indefinitely Scraps Plans for ...
blog.brightkite.com - 12/30/2008
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blog.brightkite.com —
Today we are excited to announce the addition
of Facebook Connect! Some of you may have noticed...
Facebook Connect (beta) live on the site for a few weeks, with your help we worked out the bugs and today it is official. What is Facebook Connnect and why ...
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Brightkite Blog » Brightkite and Facebook… ...
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The Meaning Of Friendship
TechCrunch —
... I can only imagine the angst that Jessica Vascellero at the Wall Street Journal inserted into countless minds this evening with her article about the difficulties people are having defining what is and isn’t a “friend” for online social networking purposes. ...
Facebook Mess Is Coming: You Now Have To Talk To Your Friends not To Be Unfriended
Profy —
... Today’s story is the Wall Street Journal discussing the idea of really being friends online and only staying friends with the people who you happen to communicate with - and deleting all the people who keep silence (for whatever reason this may be) from your network of friends. It is kind of funny watching a lengthy article in the Wall Street Journal quoting numerous examples of people unfriending each other and the offenses it can cause to the unfriended ones. ...
Why Facebook is Still Poised To Fail
TomsTechBlog.com —
... Jessica Vascellaro of the Wall Street Journal recently published an article about un-friending on Social Networks. The gist was that some people are finding themselves overwhelmed by all their online "friends" and are choosing to severe connections with those they haven't communicated with in a while. ...
Linkpost | 12.25.2008
TechBlog —
... - Won $32 million judgment against a company that registered domain names similar to Verizon. • OMG, We're Not BFFs Anymore; Getting 'Unfriended' Online Stings - In which the Wall Street Journal discovers that people sometimes unfriend people on social networks. Who knew? • ...
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