Tag: social network

• Facebook Unlike and Internet Schadenfreude

  8 days ago

  Dominic Basulto in Endless Innovation

  “Facebook is worth $100 billion, but all I got was this lousy status update.” That just about sums up the type of public sentiment that has been inundating the Internet over the past few weeks. Facebook’s much-anticipated $100 billion IPO is almost ready to hit the market after a circus-like ... Read More

• The Internet's Battle For Our Digital Souls

  14 days ago

  Dominic Basulto in Endless Innovation

  Harvard neuroscience researchers have just confirmed what many of us have suspected all along: social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest are “brain candy” for Internet users. Every status update, every tweet, every pin is a micro-jolt delivered squarely to the pleasure ... Read More

• Status Update Anxiety and Facebook Timeline

  4 months ago

  Dominic Basulto in Endless Innovation

  Keeping up with the Joneses just got harder, with Facebook finally flipping the switch on its new Timeline Apps that make it easier to share every fleeting moment of your fabulous life with each and every one of your friends. The gossip and invidious comparison that goes on between Facebook friends ... Read More