Aargh, me mateys! Change your language on Facebook for a bit of fun

If you’re getting a bit bored withFacebook and want to spice things up a bit, it’s as easy as changing your language settings. I’ve been having a ball lately simply by changing my language settings to Pirate English – this isn’t just a case of ‘Aargh, me matey’ – every aspect of Facebook communication is [...]

Are today’s mobile phones too complicated?

As we are constantly bombarded with news of the latest mobile phone or smartphone offering even more amazing features from GPS navigation to social networking to enhance our lives and make them easier, Martin Cooper, credited as being the lead engineer of the Motorola team that developed the mobile phone, has said that today’s phones [...]

What’s hot and what’s not in social media

According to Abrams Research, which recently conducted a survey on the future of social media, Twitter is the best social media tool for business, pulling in 40% of the votes. This was followed by LinkedIn, then YouTube, and bringing in the rear with 15% was Facebook. However, the reverse was true when it came to [...]

Facebook’s users are mainly adults – what will the marketers do?

According to iStrategyLabs research, there has been a 513.7% hike in the use of Facebook by users aged 55 and older between January until July this year, and traffic from high school and college users on the social networking site has dropped approximately 20%.
Interestingly, this supports research from comScore, which found that Twitter use for [...]

Have you tried blerping yet?

Media Update has recently subscribed to Blerp – a social networking website that allows you to start discussions right on top of your favourite websites. Unlike typical web comments, you are in full control and you can post on any webpage you choose, regardless of whether it permits user feedback. In other words, Blerp transforms [...]

The etiquette of defriending

When social networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn, began their rise to popularity, users seemed to race to add as many friends as possible, in an indiscriminate manner, perhaps out of curiosity to find out what acquaintances were up to, or maybe just to be seen as popular online. In this way, the [...]

Mind your networking manners

 It takes society longer to fully adapt to new technologies  than it takes to introduce them on a mass scale. It takes  time for norms for the use of new technologies to be  established, and until they become ‘unwritten rules’ or  etiquette, people generally apply habits formed using  older technologies to new technologies.
  This creates problems [...]