0 Points When Peter Chapman was arrested in October of 2009 for the kidnapping, rape and murder of seventeen year-old Ashleigh Hall, traditional print and online media were there to point the finger at Facebook and other social networks, slathering a huge serving of blame across Facebook in…

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Why the Facebook Murder is Our Fault

1 Points Do you want to start using social media in your marketing efforts?? Well so do 81% of Chief Marketing Officers who plan to link their annual revenues to their social media investment, according to a survey by CMO Club and Bazaarvoice.

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The Marketer’s Social Media Cheat Sheet

1 Points ?According to Nielson market research in a post on their blog this week, consumers are spending 5.5 hours per month on Social Networking sites like facebook and twitter as of December 2009. ?This is a 82% increase over one year ago. Overall traffic to social networking sites…

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Social Media Sucking More of Consumer’s Time

2 Points Recently on CNN it was mentioned that scientists are beginning to think that all of this social networking that is going on, especially something like Twitter just might not be all that beneficial for us, especially children who are still developing mentally.

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Are Twitter and Facebook Bad for Your Brain?

1 Points ?Social news sites are very similar to social bookmarking sites with the difference that they don’t so much focus in on particular websites, but more so the articles themselves that are written. It can be mainstream headlines or news articles from blogs.

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Social News Sites Can Cut Down on Browsing Time