We Are Social People

When you think about social media, it’s natural to think about Facebook, Twitter and even LinkedIn, Pinterest and Myspace. But that’s not all there is. There are lesser known but even more relevant social networks out there doing something really special. In fact, you may not even think of them as social networks but they are, they are the true, simple, [...]

A few days ago I was looking through my mentions on Twitter and I noticed a rough correlation between the strength of relationship I have with a person and the frequency/consistency of their interaction with me. I also noticed that strength of relationship was in rough correlation to the medium(s) that I’ve communicated with them [...]

This post is the last of 3 in a 3 part series on the evolution of relationships because of social media. Part 1 was about Facebook and your relationships and part 2 was about Facebook in the work place. Since the rise of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, Social Media channels have changed our lives and forever altered [...]

This is part 2 in a 3 part series on the evolution of relationships because of social media. You can read part 1 here. Since the rise of Facebook, Twitter and Linked.In, Social Media channels have changed our lives and forever altered the way in which we are choosing to interact with people entirely– the [...]

The old saying that everyone in the world is only 6 people away from knowing everyone else is a well known saying. The argument is, everyone is linked to each other whether it be via friends, family, co-workers, acquaintances, one way or another, you are 6 people away from knowing someone. But new research has said that it may now be nearly half [...]

Facebook sent out an email today entitled: Facebook will be sending you less email – learn why We’re trying out a new feature to reduce the amount of email you receive from Facebook. Starting today, we are turning off most individual email notifications and instead, we’ll send you a summary only if there are popular [...]

Facebook has come under some scrutiny and criticism this week for appearing to copy Google+ on it’s new Friends set up. It’s also targeted Twitter in allowing users to now “follow feeds”. Essentially, they are increasing and improving their “friend list” options and ability to manage their wall/news feeds. Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerburg, has argued that it needs updating simply because less than 5% [...]

High school for me wasn’t all that long ago,  only seven years in fact. I remember it well. Back in those days Facebook and Twitter never existed.  They were but a glimmer in Mark Zuckerburg’s and Jack Doresy’s eyes respectively. MySpace was only just starting to take off, or at least it was still a novelty in the [...]