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What do you know, social media has dethroned porn as the most popular activity on the internet today.
The news comes as “Socialnomics”, an internet research project founded by Erik Qualman, recently released data they have uncovered.
However, a report from Digital Trends says that the bit that social media has overtaken porn as the most popular activity on the internet is only a …

The United States Federal Trade Commission decided that the Social Intelligence Corporation, a startup that launched a year ago, operates within the boundaries of the Fair Credit and Reporting Act. The Social Intelligence Corporation uses social media to do background checks on people, so the ruling is significant because it means the company is allowed to keep all of your funny and embarrassing Facebook photos, misfired postings, and ill advised tweets, for seven years.

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A new survey from a website in the U.K., myvouchercodes.co.uk, surveyed 1,341 grandparents in the U.K. over 60 about how they use the internet, and found that 22 percent use a social networking website, and of this number, 71 percent said they use Facebook.  This means that about 15 percent of grandparents over the age of 60 are on Facebook.

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Thirty-four percent of the survey group using a social networking website reported that they used Twitter, and …

U.S. President Barack Obama will now personally tweet from his Twitter account, although both his Twitter and Facebook accounts will be managed by the staff of Obama’s re-election campaign – “Obama for America”, according to a posting on the barackobama.com website.  The President tweeted on Friday: “Welcome to a new @BarackObama. From now on, #Obama2012 will manage this account; tweets from the president will be signed –“BO”.

The campaign said on its website that making …

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Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, the U.S.’ largest retail brokerage, will allow brokers to use social media tools like LinkedIn and Twitter, a report from Reuters reveals.

Citing an internal memo acquired by the news organization on Wednesday, it reported that “Next month, a test group of 600 Morgan Stanley Smith Barney advisers will be allowed almost full use of LinkedIn…and restricted use of Twitter.”
The move is in contrasts to wall street banks whose policy regarding social media …

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Reppler, the Facebook application which helps “you keep your Facebook image clean and safe”, reviewed the posts on 30,000 Facebook walls over the last few months and found that 47 percent of all Facebook members have naughty words on them.

Reppler’s two month review found that the most common type of dirty words used on Facebook walls were variations of the F-bomb, followed by …

Forty-seven percent of journalists surveyed in the Fourth Annual Journalism Study said they used Twitter as a news source, compared to 33 percent last year, and 35 percent said they used Facebook as a source, up from just 25 percent last year. Four hundred seventy eight Journalists from 15 countries took part in this year’s survey, which was published by the Oriella network.

The report also shows that journalists are more often using social media to verify reports, although PR continues to …

Twenty-year old Acton Beale died in Australia from “planking”, the growing internet fad of posting photographs of oneself lying in a prone position in an odd, or funny, and increasingly more often, dangerous locations.

Beale died when he was trying to plank on the balcony of a high rise building and lost his balance.
 
Police in Queensland are concerned that with planking becoming more popularity, in part because social media websites make it easy to quickly spread a new plank …

Liberty Mutual’s Responsibility Project conducted an online survey that showed parents are increasingly lenient about their children’s use of social media, with the number of U.S. parents who said they would let their children, between the ages of 10-12, use Facebook or MySpace more than doubled from 8 percent a year ago to 17 percent now.

Eleven percent of parents said they have used social media websites on behalf of their young child or infant, according to the study. Janet Taylor, a …