I closed down my Bebo, Plurk and MySpace accounts in 2009 because I was being overloaded by so many friend requests and spurious linking to things I couldn't be asked to spend time on. Tags: MySpace 2010 Plurk friending FaceBook Bebo Warning - This one is a bit of a rant. MORE

Still, one can imagine why Second Life went the way of Myspace and Friendster: It lacked a secure aspect. MORE

iPod) e-Thugs: Online cyber bullies Lifecasting: Webcasting all your life's activities 24/7 iSlavery: Apple's attempts to lock iPhone users into one network provider Macolyte: Someone who worships at the altar of all things Apple Network promiscuity: Tendency by social networkers to spread their membership across FaceBook, MySpace, Bebo, etc. Tags: MySpace Apple Mac Nintendo Wii iPOD FaceBook 2007 Edubloggers Bebo MORE

Myspace was to become the trend setter - within 3 years it had signed up an astounding 100 million users. The history of both Myspace and Facebook are very well documented on their respective Wikipedia entries. MORE

The likes of Friendster, and later MySpace, Bebo and Faceboook (some would argue that the BBS users were the first), promoted the idea that you could connect with those you knew, and you could share your thoughts with them. We teach our children that sharing is good. MORE

Social networking sites: Facebook (2006), Myspace (2003), Bebo (2005), LinkedIn (2003) and other sites together have changed the face of social networking for ever. Tags: Nintendo DS MySpace YouTube iPod Touch PLE Nintendo Wii Twitter Ringtones podcast Google FaceBook Bebo MORE

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace Over the past few weeks Ive conducted about 17 interviews with current college students and recent graduates. A couple of people also had MySpace accounts. MySpace is seen as being too "creepy". Im not sure how this relates to danah boyds recent blog article on Viewing American class divisions through FaceBook and MySpace. I think [link] is way better than myspace 2:14 PM Cathy Moore said. MORE

It’s still too early to tell which one of these will fall the way of MySpace, but as Facebook has pointed out, there is often very little room at the top. The MOOC landscape is taking shape , and just like social networking sites before it, the major players are starting to emerge. MORE

Sites such as CEOP's Think You Know have become useful resources to raise children's awareness of the dangers of using social networking tools such as Bebo and Myspace. Tags: MySpace CEOP Mebo Internet safety cyberbullying learning Bebo e-safety MORE

I learned some basic html coding when I was just 11 years old because I constantly wanted to update the backgrounds on my NeoPets and MySpace profiles. What type of education offerings does the incoming generation want and how is what they want different from other generations? assnchat. MORE

Consider: CompuServe, AOL, MySpace, Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp. I have enjoyed this month’s issue of Wired, especially an article from senior writer, Mat Honan. I couldn’t find his article on the web, otherwise I would have just linked to it. MORE

Which is the best, MySpace or FaceBook? NightMonkey (who is apparently a cat sat at a desktop) closed down their FaceBook account immediately, but maintains a MySpace account to keep in touch with their students. Well, I shamelessly admit that I keep Bebo , MySpace and FaceBook accounts for similar reasons. Tags: MySpace MyFaceBo spam FaceBook online identity Still the debate goes on. And where is Bebo in all this? MORE

A huge part of our social lives already happens online rather than in the “real world” And while individual social media networks might rise and fall (remember MySpace?), Social media have become an indispensable part of modern life. MORE

JustDeleteMe - Want to delete that old MySpace account but aren''t sure how? We are big fans of online tools here at OpenSesame. Websites and apps help us connect with others, keep up with current events, learn new skills, as well as can inspire us to think big. MORE

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. Previous posts in this series tracked the development of educational technology over 40 years. MORE

They use FaceBook , MySpace , YouTube , Flickr , Bebo , MSN and a host of other free utilities to connect and share with their peer group outside of the university structure. Tags: MySpace MLE YouTube Flickr Vesuvius MSN FaceBook Bebo Pompeii City of the dead. MORE

Upon ending the presentation rather than give out advice on pre-start of courses reading, I asked them to get a Myspace account, fill out all the categories and be sure to post comments to at least two from others. My plans are that the Social networking aspects of Myspace will not only form the first point for an ongoing trend of collaboration but be the foundation in forming an online presence and identity The HND course officially started today with an induction. MORE

2003: Myspace launched. MORE

A recent US research project (by a PhD student mind you) has reported that users of FaceBook are generally toffs from wealthier homes and are more likely to study in further/higher education than that great unwashed working class lot who like using MySpace. I used to have a MySpace , but abandoned it because FaceBook was easier to use. I subsequently found out that more of my friends were using it than MySpace, so it made social networking easier. So it's official. MORE

They can easily connect into and maintain contact with multiple communities of interest, gaining access to experts using social networking tools such as Myspace and Facebook. Tags: MySpace YouTube iPods blogs augmented reality Flickr FaceBook Web 2.0 MORE

Some students lose all their inhibitions when they post content onto Facebook or Myspace. Tags: MySpace connectivism e-learning residents wiki e-pedagogy digital natives FaceBook MORE

How many FaceBook , Bebo , MySpace , Flickr or (perish the thought) SagaZone (for the over 50s) accounts should I have? Tags: MySpace SagaZone social network FaceBook Bebo My life is in boxes. Just like a Likert scale questionnaire. MORE

To an American eye, the Cyworld service looks like a mixture of some of the hottest US properties: it's MySpace meets Flickr and Blogger and AIM and Second Life. Cyworld has penetration rates that would make Rupert Murdoch, CEO of MySpace parent News Corp. It looks like the future of Social networking is going to come from Korea in the form of a tool called Cyworld. O'Reilly has a long post referencing the Business2.0 article on the topic covering many angles. MORE

Another example is the social networking tribe which boasts many clans, such as the MySpace clan, the Bebo clan, the YouTube clan and so on. Tags: MySpace mobile phones YouTube virtual clan FaceBook Bebo cyberculture MORE

Technology, and in particular, popular social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and Orkut have made connections between people much easier, more immediate, and certainly a lot richer in terms of experience. MORE

Social networking is not some new category of computer use that Facebook (or Friendster/MySpace/Twitter/etc) invented. In this series of posts we stroke our elaborate moustaches, straighten up our turbans, and look into our crystal balls to determine the future of eLearning in 10 years time. MORE

Yesterday I blogged that there was little or no difference between FaceBook and MySpace, principally because I thought there was no difference between the social class profiles of users. Tags: MySpace social network FaceBook BBC News Bebo MORE

Facebook, Myspace) and video/photo sharing sites (e.g. Tags: MySpace YouTube digital tribes virtual clan social web Flickr cultural capital FaceBook digital identity I'm a keynote speaker for a conference being held at the University of Middlesex on June 29th. MORE

The campaign is being supported by all the major players, including Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Myspace. Tags: MySpace zip it block it flag it CEOP Internet safety cyberbullying Google FaceBook Microsoft e-safety MORE

However, one article caught my eye "MySpace, IM--why so addictive?" Here is some of the article: Yes, these terms --Instant Messanger and Myspace--may seem foreign to your parents, but to us teenagers they're essential to keep up with the lastest ins and outs. Nearly any Myspace or Instant Messenger user will tell you that they are addicted to it. Tonight's supplement to my daily newspaper is a paper within a paper called All the Rage, For Teens! By Teens! About Teens! MORE

2010) The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, Myspace, YouTube and the rest of today's user generated media are killing our culture and economy. This is part 2 of the series on technological futures. MORE

Anyway - it's similar to other social networking spaces such as Bebo (which has a much younger user base) and MySpace (where age doesn't seem to matter - they take anyone). Tags: MySpace social network FaceBook communication Bebo A few days ago I set up my own FaceBook account. I already have 6 friends, all people I know in some way or another. 2 others have also tried to hook up with me, but I don't know them from Adam (who is also not one of my friends) so I declined the offer. MORE

Its roots are NOT in mobile learning as social became a hit with the advent of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook – which emerged before mobile phones gave access to these sites. (We have created a 7-part comprehensive report containing a series of two-to-three page “briefs.” MORE

Is gamification going to go the way of Myspace and Foursquare? Our industry is notorious for chasing after trends. We all enjoy reading the summaries of the past year – and seeing predictions for the new one. MORE

A lot of the rhetoric surrounding the more popular social networking sites such as FaceBook , MySpace and Bebo seems to be related to the more negative factors such as identity theft, threats to children, breahes in privacy of personal data and copyright theft. Tags: MySpace social networking FaceBook Bebo MORE

Social networking sites have educational benefits: University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow breaks down how her research has found that social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace can have an impact for learning and educational growth for high school students. MORE

Social networking is not some new category of computer use that Facebook (or Friendster/MySpace/Twitter/etc) invented. In this series of posts we stroke our elaborate moustaches, straighten up our turbans, and look into our crystal balls to determine the future of eLearning in 10 years time. MORE