Articles tagged with: Living Online
Emailing, texting and social networking may be second nature forms of communication for many of us, but it seems like every day we are encountering more and more stories about people getting into real trouble due to embarrassing emails or online postings. What about this medium makes us write and post things that we would likely not say to an individual face to face?
Have we as a society placed digital communication on the same level as face-to-face communication?
We’re raising a generation of bloggers, Twitterers, and texters.
Will this new digital generation understand the art or rules of communication? Or will these skills simply not matter in the future?
Weigh in and let us know your thoughts!
What do all of these people have in common?
NBA players, actors, neighbors, students, teachers, preachers, employers, employees, journalists, and protesters in Iran.
They’re all using Twitter to update the world about what’s going on in their neck of the woods.
The rise of Twitter and other social-networking services shows the growing influence of online social-networking.
Lately Facebook has been updating features on the site to give users more options. The latest change has to do with your identity.
Basically your ID is just some random combination of numbers.
As of Saturday June 13, 2009 your name will be displayed in the address bar!
You can choose to keep your name the way it is or pick a new username.



