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I know a girl who asked a boy to be her boyfriend via Facebook before they had even discussed the matter face-to-face. It was Gen Y's version of the omnipresent grade school love letter that read: "I like you. Do you like me? Check yes or no."
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A growing number of professors are experimenting with Facebook, Twitter, and other social-networking tools for their courses, but some students greet an invitation to join professors’ personal networks with horror, seeing faculty members as intruders in their private online spaces. Recognizing that, some professors have coined the term “creepy treehouse” to describe technological innovations by faculty members that make students’ skin crawl.
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The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that a Connecticut high-school student could be barred from running for student government after posting a blog entry calling a school official a “douchebag” and encouraging other students to write or call the official to annoy her, the Hartford Courant reports.
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Danny O'Leary, a senior who plays lacrosse, said his dean displayed four Facebook photos of O?Leary holding drinks and told him he was in "a bit of trouble." One photo shows him holding a can of Coors beer, another a shot of rum, he said. In yet another, O'Leary is pictured holding his friend?s 40-ounce container of beer. "I was told each picture was equal to a two-game suspension,'' he said.
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Miss New Jersey, Amy Polumbo, spoke to freshmen at Wagner College about the dangers of putting too much personal information on the Internet. Many students tend to post private information and pictures on their MySpace and Facebook pages, then express shock when somebody finds them online.
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Sophos created a profile for a fake Facebook user named Freddi Staur (that’s “ID Fraudster,” anagrammed) and sent friend requests to 200 other randomly chosen Facebookers. In the end, 87 people made Freddi a friend, and nearly all of them shared some personal information — like their e-mail addresses or dates of birth — with the stranger.
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When Krista-Lee Malone, a student at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, did a study of the impact of voice chat on online worlds, women all told her they were treated differently once other players could hear their voices. Yet in a study of WoW, those who used text-only chat experienced "drops in trust and happiness" amongst their fellow players; those who used voice chat did not.
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Openness is ingrained in Swedish society. Today Swedes have unfettered access to almost all records that the state keeps on the population. But until the Internet arrived, citizens had to visit the local tax office to ask about others' finances. Things came to a head in Nov when a Swedish website, Ratsit.se, started publishing financial details, free of charge, from the national tax authority.
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Psych prof Pennebaker says bloggers, who write for an audience, probably won't engage in the same level of emotional processing as they would if writing just for themselves... "More & more people believe they are entitled to behave according to their own values & not the norms prevailing in society," Aaron Ben-Ze'ev says. That means there is less of a need to keep a protected private self..."
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A fourth of human resources decision makers said they had rejected candidates based on personal information found online. Most people, however, remain unaware of the effect their Net reputation can have on their job prospects.
Examples of online information that has been shown to create negative information include MySpace pages that reveal excessive drinking or disrespect for work.
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I know a girl who asked a boy to be her boyfriend via Facebook before they had even discussed the matter face-to-face. It was Gen Y's version of the omnipresent grade school love letter that read: "I like you. Do you like me? Check yes or no."
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