Facebook is the world's largest social networking site. You add friends, post pictures and post statuses. Back in Facebook's early days, the reason for adding friends was "quantity over quality." Meaning, the amount of friends you have was more important than their personality or attitude. But today, most users seem to be more careful about who they add as their "friend". About 63% of adults said they unfriended people in 2011, up from 56% in 2009, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The reasons? A recent survey showed that people get unfriended because they posted offensive comments and/ or lack of interaction (see chart below). "Initially, users have an open embrace of technology," Mary Madden, a researcher at Pew says, "but after some time, it can turn into an awkward hug." Have you ever unfriended someone? Why or why not?
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A Continent Goes Mobile
December 10 & 17 Issue
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The next hit app might just come from Africa because a new type of innovative apps are growing to help local needs. They have also lagged in technology ad is now home to about 700 million cellphones, making it the largest mobile market after Asia. Basic non-touch-screen phones are linking even the poorest people in villages of Africa, who before had to walk miles to communicate. But there's still along way to go: only 16% of Africans have Internet access, the lowest rate in the world! But things are changing quickly! According to one African techie who spoke to The Guardian in London, "there are 5- to 9- year olds today who, by the time they are 20, will have technology so embedded that the old Africa won't exist for them."
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