While the social media landscape often changes quickly, it’s pretty clear that networking on those sites is going to be a big part of our lives for a long time—both personally and professionally.
Hashtags may have originated on Twitter, but the popular internet shorthand has since spread to Facebook and even everyday speech. And now, "hashtag" has been declared the 2012 word of the year by the American Dialect Society. #waytogohashtag
This Saturday, Sept. 22, come cheer on the Tri-City Americans with 98.3 The Key at the Toyota Center in Kennewick. Help the Americans program the music you'll hear in the rink that night.
It was a good day for us in the Twitter universe today (Aug. 24). First, Spencer Pratt of MTV’s ‘The Hills’ followed us on the social media site (we’re dumbfounded and excited at the same time), but even better than that? We found out comedian/TV host/author/etc. Joan Rivers got into it with Rihanna on Twitter. Day = made.
Facebook, Twitter and Skype users, be warned. New research has found a “central link” between mental health disorders and intensive computer use.
If you didn’t know it by now, employers are using social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn as an active part of their recruiting process.
In fact, a new survey suggests that even if you are not providing a recruiter with your social media information, most are still looking at them anyway.
“Imagine you’ve been diagnosed with an incurable genetic disease and you are told you will not only lose your ability to walk and move your arms, but you will die between now and the next 18 months. What would you do?”
The parents of 5-month-old Avery Lynn Canahuati, who’s suffering from spinal muscular atrophy, had to ask themselves this same question. Their answer? Avery’s Bucket List Blog.
April 11, 2012 Twitter has given us a window into just how stupid people's unfiltered thoughts can be.
Twitter is single handedly killing off celebrities on a daily basis. One retweet leads to hours worth of specualtion, further rumors, and confusion and it all started off of a bogus website.
Once again, a rumor is just that. Usher is not dead. Neither is Justin Bieber, Adam Sandler, Will Smith, Jon Bon Jovi...the list goes on.
We may live in an era that many feel is dangerously approaching the Big Brother world depicted in the book ’1984,’ but after a high school student was expelled for using profanity in a tweet, lots of people cried foul.
