MySpace relaunches as a content network, leveraging the bands and filmmakers they already have on board and dropping the emphasis on social networking.
Several U. s. Olympic athletes have taken to social media to respond to disclosures from Russian hackers that show they received exemptions to use banned drugs.
In 1973 sociologist Mark Granovetter showed how the loose acquaintances, or "weak ties", in our social network exert a disproportionate influence over our behaviour and choices.
Social media allows users to experience new events more intimately and immediately while also permitting them to re-share news as a projection of their values and interests.
While the employees were both fired and the franchise was closed for sanitation, the brand's social stock still took a nose dive in both traditional and social media circles.
Predictably, being faced with hard, empirical data about your social world — particularly if it contradicts what a user believes, or wants to believe — can be difficult.
The teenagers who were most connected to their parents on Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media felt closer and more connected to their parents in real life.
Locked indoors, unable to get on their bicycles and hang out with their friends, teens have turned to social media and their mobile phones to gossip, flirt andsocialize with their peers.
Another study of high school social networks found less bullying and aggression the higher the density of mixed-sex friendships within a given adolescent network.
We may leave our lights on in the house when we are on vacation, but through social media we tell criminals where we are, when we plan to return home, and how to blackmail us.