The role of Christmas cards in supplying friends and family with an annual update of one’s life has all but been supplanted by the always-on, constant, status updates of social networks and blogs.
Christmas cards used to be the annual connection with friends who had drifted away. But in a texting, Skyping, e-mailing, e-networking world, [...]

Fantastic, popular web services and sites represented as vintage book covers.

Changes in methods of communication, which have become more immediate and direct by way of social media and networks, will increasingly change the way we work, and look for work, with today’s high-school students appearing to be well-equipped to negotiate future working environments.
One of their distinguishing characteristics is their extraordinary ability to multi-task and do [...]

The social networks have birthed a new official word – unfriend – being the act of removing someone from your friends list on a site like Facebook or MySpace.
“It has both currency and potential longevity,” notes Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford’s US dictionary program. “In the online social networking context, its meaning is [...]

A hierarchical representation of digital technologies (larger graphic) and the degree to which they will distract us from our work, as well as themselves.
For example an incoming SMS message will take our attention off an email we are reading, while anything an iPhone does (incoming call, Twitter status updates, etc) will distract us from [...]

10 Levels of Intimacy in Communication by Ji Lee. If ten is the best “score” on the scale then talking face to face ranks as the most intimate communication form.
Twitter, and the other social networks, aka “the death of our ability to be alone” are at the other end of the scale.

What is it with social networks that compel us to publish all manner of information that we would consider private in another context? Is the desire for 15 minutes of fame heightened when we can’t actually see – or don’t have direct contact with – our “public” (that is friends) or something?
Perhaps I’ve been [...]

While our IRL social networks tend to say about the same size throughout our lives, about half the number of friends who are a part of it change approximately every seven years.
The results showed that personal network sizes remained stable, but that many members of the network were new. About 30 percent of discussion partners [...]

The accuracy, and even presence, of “relationship statuses” on social networking profiles is no laughing matter for some people.
Some couples are together for years but neglect to announce their coupledom to their social network. “Some moron tried to convince me that [my relationship is] not legitimate because I don’t have it on Facebook,” says Annie [...]

“You’re” produces a portrait of your “virtual web identity” compiled – apparently – from information garnered from social networking and photo sharing sites that you belong to.