Category: Social Media

Adam Cohen discusses locational privacy in this editorial. Corporations and the government can keep track of what political meetings people attend, what bars and clubs they go to, whose homes they visit. It is the fact that people’s locations are being recorded “pervasively, silently, and cheaply that we’re worried about,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation said […]

The AP covers how candidates in Florida are using Twitter and Facebook. It sets up a test on how effective new communication and social networking can be in overcoming the name recognition and huge financial advantage held by the other major candidate in the race — Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, who’s more of an old […]

A new survey shows that a little more than half of Americans over 18 belong to one social media site. 77.4 percent of respondents ages 18-34 used social media, and 54.8 percent belong to two or more social media sites Only 47.5 percent of Baby Boomers (ages 45-64) are online social networkers, and just 23.3 […]