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unusual facts about social networking



Ashley-Paul Robinson

Robinson then secured a trial with Premier League side Fulham, and marked a new era of football moving into the 21st century by announcing his plans to trial for the Cottagers on his profile on the social networking website Facebook.

Basking in reflected glory

Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites have increased BIRGing with popular brands, as it allows everyone to post their affinity for or their associations with popular companies, media, businesses, etc.

Chasing New Jersey

Audra Schroeder of The Daily Dot showed similar concerns surrounding its presentation, but noted the show's use of social networking (such as an interview conducted via Google Hangouts, and active social media presences for its personalities) helped to encourage viewer interaction.

Is Anyone Up?

Hunter Moore states that he takes legal precautions before uploading people onto the site, initially verifying the age of the people submitted through social networking sites and sends the IP information of people who submit photos of underage individuals to a lawyer in Las Vegas who turns it over to law enforcement.

Joe Sorge

AJ Bombers was one of 30 small businesses taking part in the initial test of Foursquare, a social networking site for small businesses.

Lars Hinrichs

Lars Hinrichs (born December 18, 1976, Hamburg, Germany) is a German entrepreneur and founder of XING, a worldwide social networking website dedicated mostly to cultivating business contacts.

Lot18

It was launched in October 2010 by Philip J. K. James, who previously founded Snooth, a social networking website, and Kevin Fortuna, the former CEO of Quigo, a search-engine marketing company that was acquired by AOL in December 2007.

Name Your Own Price

In 2011, NYP Digital an American digital marketing agency launched a NYOP business model where they literally allow their customers to tell them what they wish to pay for such services as Website management, SEO, Google Adwords, and Social Networking.

Nick Riewoldt

On 20 December 2010 a photo with a nude image of Riewoldt was posted on the social networking site Facebook by a 17-year old girl.

Our Green Book

The software, Quad/Graphics Digital Edition, runs on Flash and allows users to "turn" the pages, zoom in on any page, search the publication via keyword, and even write notes as well as tag pages to different social networking sites.

Robin Sage

According to Sage's social networking profiles, she is a 25-year-old "cyber threat analyst" at the Naval Network Warfare Command in Norfolk, Virginia.

Shawn Fanning

In December 2006, Fanning developed Rupture, a social networking tool designed to handle the task of publishing gamers' individual profiles to a communal space and facilitating communication between World of Warcraft players.

Socialcasting

Socialcasting has developed out of several technology trends including instant messaging, videoconferencing, social networking, video sharing and blogging.

Varpal

Varpal is a student social networking website established on the 7th of April, 2012 in Ebonyi State by Christopher Columbus, a Biochemistry student of Ebonyi state University Nigeria, and his two college friends Nnamdi Ogodo and Chido Collins with the aim of connecting students all over the world to share ideas together.


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Alay

According to alay today, alay originated from the social networking site Friendster.

Amoi

Amoi also manufactures the 3 Skypephone mobile phone along with the INQ Phone, the social networking phone exclusive to 3 Skypephone.

Black Planet

BlackPlanet, a social networking website geared towards African-Americans

Cyanide and Happiness

It has appeared on social networking sites that include Myspace, LiveJournal, and Facebook where, in April 2006, it had generated more than a million visits per week.

Daniel Burka

In January 2008, Daniel co-founded the social networking service Pownce.

Dennis Baron

Baron also explores the new genres that the computer has launched: email, the instant message, the web page, the blog, social-networking pages like MySpace and Facebook, and communally generated texts like Wikipedia, Urban Dictionary, and YouTube.

Dennis Crowley

Dennis Crowley (born June 19, 1976) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding the popular social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare.

Drivers Republic

It was within his time at Experian and working together with Hitwise that he gained a profile for advising businesses such as Yahoo, Microsoft and eBay on social networking and internet marketing.

Facebook, Inc. v. StudiVZ Ltd.

Facebook, Inc. operates a social networking website, that was originally founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 while he was a student at Harvard University.

Fernando Mastrangelo

Currently, Mastrangelo is at work on Al One (2010-) where he is collaborating with Napster founder Shawn Fanning on a sculptural installation addressing the increasing complexities of social networking.

Fitzrovia News

Like many hyperlocal media the Fitzrovia News makes extensive use of freely available digital media: blog software Wordpress and social media Twitter, Facebook; location-based social-networking Foursquare; and visual media Flickr and YouTube.

Google Account

A Google profile can be linked to a user's profiles on various social-networking and image-hosting sites, as well as user blogs.

Greg Tseng

He is co-founder and current CEO of social networking website Tagged and a founder of JumpStart.

Guillaume Boronad

When the player was later asked by a Leeds supporter why he had not signed for the club via social networking site Facebook, he responded with the now famous WACCOE quip "Sorry. My agent betrayed"

Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, 2014

Despite initially announcing his intention to run for Ward 3 councillor, Michael Baldasaro posted a picture to the social networking site Facebook indicating he will be seeking the office of mayor.

Iowa Highway 136

Conditions along this part of Iowa 136 have led some residents to create a page on the social networking website Facebook dedicated to calling attention to the road.

Jeremy Fogel

On October 29, 2009, Fogel awarded the Palo Alto, California-based social networking website Facebook $711 million in damages in a civil suit that Facebook filed against online marketer Sanford Wallace, whom Facebook accused of using the website to send spam to and steal personal information from website users.

Jung Il-woo

He actively communicates with fans around the world through social networking websites like Twitter, Facebook, WeiBo and me2day.

Limmy

He is also a prolific user of the social networking applications Twitter and Vine.

Mick Keelty

Since his retirement from the AFP, Keelty has become an Adjunct Professor at both the Australian National University and Charles Sturt University undertaking research into policy implications of social networking for covert operations by police and security agencies.

Microsoft Research Labs

Microsoft adCenter Labs, an applied research group that focuses on products such as Paid Search, Content Ads, and Behavioral Targeting on Microsoft adCenter, including keyword and content technologies, audience intelligence, ad selection and relevance, social networking, and video and interactive media

Mothercare

In 2007 Mothercare launched Gurgle, a pregnancy and parenting social networking website.

Naveen Selvadurai

Naveen graduated with degrees from King's College London in the UK and Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the US, and went to work with Lucent, Sony, Nokia and Sun Microsystems before he started his mobile social-networking venture Foursquare, along with Dennis Crowley.

None of the above

In Serbia, None of the above (Ниједан од понуђених одговора, НОПО) is a parliamentary political party, legally formed in 2010, which was mostly popularized on Facebook and less on other social networking websites.

Peace of Mind Campaign

This message can then be posted to popular social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, Twitter and Bebo.

PebblePad

Videos and Photos can be imported from social networking sites like YouTube, Flickr.

Pilar Rubio

On November 12, 2013, the presenter announced via the social networking she was expecting her first child next to Spanish footballer and his current partner Sergio Ramos.

Psychological effects of Internet use

Evgeny Morozov has said that social networking could be potentially harmful to people.

Queensland Core Skills Test

In 2010, a student-organised movement, fuelled by the popular social networking site Facebook suggested that students mention Bear Grylls in the writing task or in the short response task, similar to Project Clooney '09 in the General Achievement Test.

Real Sangria

Reál Sangria also has an ongoing social networking campaign on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.

Rost van Tonningen

Floris Rost van Tonningen (born 1977), co-founder of the Dutch social networking site Hyves, grandson of Meinoud and Florentine

Sam Yoon

Yoon’s consultants include: Jim Spencer, of the Campaign Network, a direct mail specialist who was the chief strategist on Yoon’s city council runs; Jeff Hewitt, a media specialist who was his lead fundraising consultant; Joe Trippi, a social networking specialist who was the former campaign manager for Howard Dean's Presidential Campaign.

Samsung GT-B7330

From this device's default home screen, the user can check the weather, play songs, update CNN headlines, view photos, configure device settings, and go to social-networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, and YouTube.

Serchhip Thalai Pawl

In November 2010, a group of social-networking sites users who are using Facebook and other sites like Orkut, etc. have in mind that some social activities must be done outside of their computer room.

Social media

Tim Berners-Lee contends that the danger of social networking sites is that most are silos and do not allow users to port data from one site to another.

Suburban Journals

Steve Pokin, a reporter and columnist for the St. Charles Journal, in November 2007 broke the story of Megan Meier, a Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, teen who committed suicide after being scorned by a fictitious friend on the social networking site MySpace.

Syed Ali Shah Geelani

In November 2011, Geelani called for peaceful protests against the alleged "objectionable anti-Islamic" content on the social networking website Facebook, which he described as a "satanic audacity".

Teeshirtsdirect.com

teeshirtsdirect.com makes significant use of social networking sites in their advertising, with facebook, Twitter and myspace playing extensive roles in this strategy.

Top Eleven Football Manager

Top Eleven Football Manager is online football manager simulation developed by Nordeus and, for use through Facebook and other social networking sites.

Total Music

Total Music was then conceived as a streaming service to be incorporated into social networking sites—particularly Facebook—in a model similar to what was already in place through agreements between the record companies and MySpace: in exchange for user data and advertising revenue, Total Music would grant the social network a license to use the participating labels' music.

Webuser

Topics covered include free software; PC security and maintenance; browser add-ons; the best Google tools; and the latest web trends and developments, such as Web 2.0 and social networking.

WQKL

Martin Bandyke was let go from WQKL in February 2009 due to budget cuts but, in a surprising move given the current radio climate, was rehired a few weeks later due to immense negative outcry from listeners (who even started a protest group on the social networking website Facebook) and advertisers.