A few months ago, I posted about a computer science major who had done some research about the third party applications that many people add to Facebook. In her research, Adrienne Felt found that “90.7% of applications are being given more privileges than they need.” Well, the BBC recently did a little research of their [...]
I know that Facebook is a very popular website for students. But, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (link only available for 5 days after this post), if you use any of Facebook’s add-on applications, you may be giving out information that you don’t want to give out. I [...]
I just finished reading the article “Getting Past Google: Perspectives on Information Literacy from the Millennial Mind” by Carie Windham (PDF). It’s worth a read, especially for librarians and administrators at schools & colleges. One thing in there that I thought was especially useful was a set of tips on staying safe on [...]
A recent study conduced by Will Reader at Sheffield Hallam University found that people on social networking sites like Myspace & Facebook have tens, hundreds, maybe even thousands of friends. But, he concluded, of that list, there are approximately only 5 core friends. This study concurred with a study by Robin Dunbar at [...]
This is another video by Michael Wesch at Kansas State. He’s the guy whose videos I posted yesterday. Here’s how Wesch describes it on YouTube:
“a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives [...]
