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The drama of Facebook

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The world''s largest and most successful social network, Facebook - celebrated its tenth anniversary in February 2014. Facebook is a social phenomenon that cannot be ignored. Facebook is a social phenomenon that cannot be ignored. Boasting a growing membership that is currently well in excess of 1.2

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Using FaceBook

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 Using FaceBook Im trying to expand my horizons a bit these days and have been taking a closer look at a whole bunch of tools out there, including SecondLife and FaceBook. FaceBook seems like such a student-world application, and yet folks say more and more "grown-ups" are using it. But its a start.

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Weapons of mass deception?

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There does seem to b growing evidence that this may have been perpetrated, but in the midst of all the hyperbole and accusations, what role does social media actually play in the deception of the masses? by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Twitter and the death of distance

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My own father, now 84 years old, started a Facebook account so he could keep in touch with distant relatives in such places as New Zealand and Australia. Many of us regularly communicate with multiple Twitter and Facebook friends and acquaintances instantaneously even though they may be in another country. The stories go on and on.

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Separation and connection

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At the time of writing, Facebook boasts over 845 million subscriptions and this statistics grows each month. And that's just Facebook. Six Degrees of Separation is a useful book because it illuminates the science behind our daily use of Facebook, Twitter and other social media. This is not hyperbole. London: William Heinemann.

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Taking up residence

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Those who habituate into the use of Twitter for example, become adept at using it, and adopt the role of residents within that digital environment. They may not be such regular users of Facebook , so are more likely to be visitors rather than residents within that particular social media environment. Unported License.

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Back stage front stage

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Front stage representation draws upon scripts, costumes, roles and props, as each person tries to present themselves in their most favourable manner. I asked the group how many of them had a Facebook account. Part of the downside of Facebook, I reminded them, is when you (or someone else) posts images of yourself onto the site.