Mother confronts 13 year old Daughter in a Facebook Video ... Mistake : Posted Racy photos ...

A Denver, Colorado, USA woman is being criticised and praised at the same time for posting a video on Facebook, where she's seen shaming her 13 year old daughter (whose face has been blurred) for posting racy photos on Facebook.

The critics are calling the mom irresponsible for posting the video; and seeing it as a victimisation of the young girl.

In the video, the woman is shown confronting her 13 year old daughter as to why she stated her age as 19, when she is actually 13; and as to why she's crying now, when it's she who chose to click her photos in bra & lacy lingerie and share those on her Facebook profile.

The woman says that she created the video simply because she loved her child and wants to stand besides her at this time of crisis. She also wants to tell the World that the act of her child is simply indiscretion and her parents will never fall short of guiding her on the right path.

To end, although the video is being criticised as victimisation of a child; there are real questions which one must be asking here. What's a parent's duty towards a 13 year old. Isn't it guiding him/her to the right path? If a mom can't reprimand or confront her child at 13, then how can she guide her to a good life ahead.

In addition, the very real time viral nature of public shame online, also requires an equally powerful anecdote. The girl's mom seems to have done the same. In future, she should be more loving towards her child. This also means spending more valuable time with her.   

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Mother confronts 13 year old Daughter in a Facebook Video ... Mistake : Posted Racy photos ...

Anil Singh Thursday, May 21, 2015

Reach of Social media sites and the Question of Privacy

If you started using web or internet in 2010 and later; then there are high chances that the motivation to be online was either having access to some important piece of information, the lure of one of the top social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Orkut etc.), or online shopping. The motivations in that particular order.

The lure of social networking is real. According to recent data -- More than 70 percent of adults who go online use a social networking site of some kind.

The popularity of social networking sites is so great that (thanks to the mainstream media picking the news worthy stories from the Social media and the celebrities & politicians making statements, washing their dirty linen, taking on opponents on Social media sites like Twitter and Facebook)  even the experts have forgot that Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites are still evolving. And no one knows how the current usage will pan out in future. Especially the areas like privacy.

According to a Pew Research Internet Privacy survey 2013,

21 percent of Internet users have had an email or social networking account compromised. 12 percent have been stalked or harassed online and 11 percent have had important personal information stolen, such as their Social Security number, credit card or bank account information.

How do you see your own usage habits and behaviour on Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter etc?

Do you think before sharing anything online?

What does online privacy mean to you?

Does online Privacy to you mean not using your credit card or debit card online?

Are you so afraid of disclosing information online that you don't even share your bank account number online ( while you don't think twice before printing that account number on a pamphlet or tell to others in real life)?

Do you pay attention to the Dos and Donts of online safety?

Are you confident that the way you use social networks or Web is enough to protect privacy online? ---------

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Reach of Social media sites and the Question of Privacy

Anil Singh Thursday, February 20, 2014

Facebook Study: Facebook use makes You Sad

A New Facebook Study suggests that Facebook Use and Sadness are Linked. The more you use Facebook, the more miserable you get.

Facebook Studies -- that's the various studies by researchers on the effect of Facebook on our mental well being are not new. The world's biggest social network, with active users equalling the population of countries like India or China, attracts researchers as much as as it attracts any new internet user.

One of the studies in the past revealed that for Facebook users "the grass is always greener on the other side". That's Facebook users keep silently visiting their real life classmates' and long forgotten friends' Facebook profiles to see what they are doing in life (What they have achieved in personal and professional life); and always return back with a feeling of sadness. As they find their classmates and friends in a better position than them. This resulted the researchers of the said study assume that Facebook makes people sad.

Now, another Facebook study has arrived. This time from the researchers at the University of Michigan.

The study reveals that the increasing use of Facebook among young adults creates an increased lack of well-being.

The Facebook study titled: "Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults." goes a step further with linking Facebook and Happiness. The study suggests that the Facebook and happiness may be virtual opposites.

The Facebook Study Linking Facebook and Happiness:

Here's one of the revelations made by the study,

"The more people used Facebook at one time point, the worse they felt the next time we text-messaged them; the more they used Facebook over two weeks, the more their life satisfaction levels declined over time."

The study that was performed among 82 young adults, thus links Facebook and Happiness inversely. That the more one uses Facebook, the more unhappy he/she becomes.

Here's another insight into Facebook use from the Study,

 "On the surface, Facebook provides an invaluable resource for fulfilling the basic human need for social connection. Rather than enhancing well-being, however, these findings suggest that Facebook may undermine it."

Another insight the Facebook Study shares is,

"Facebook is not a place where people, especially young adults come for dating. That's, teh study found no evidence that people turned to Facebook as a pick-me-up."

How closely the Study understands Facebook Use and its Effect on the Facebook user's mental Well being:

To a geek or a person who uses Facebook as part of his profession, the findings of the study may seem far from truth. As he/she spends his entire work time and beyond, with no signs of unhappiness. But there may be some truth in the finding that those who used Facebook for long periods are seeking some sort of relief from the misery in the real life in the first place. This misery may be anything from the lack of social skills to make friends in real life, talk to people in real life, confront people in real life etc.

In addition, although Facebook provides a sort of parallel world to many users, still it's not the real world. In such a scenario, how can one understand many Facebook users simply spending their entire day or substantial duration of it, socialising, liking and sharing on Facebook.

Regarding the portentous suggestion by the study that Facebook makes people unhappy, I've some reservations. I've observed that just like real world, on Facebook as well, Facebook users do get the opportunity to feel happy as well. For instance, they silently visit a profile of some long forgotten friend or class mate and found him.her in not that good position, in personal and professional life. Then the person may feel some consoling feeling.

But overall, if one tries to estimate the happiness and unhappiness, Facebook users derive out of Facebook use, then the balance will majorly tilt towards the gloomy feeling. The reasons are two:

1) Only those people  who are professionally and personally content, share that information on their Facebook profiles, and;

2) People often look for those people on Facebook, who they once saw as their competitors and to whom they feel lagging behind now.

The above insight to Facebook use is not insincere. The behaviour wherein Facebook users silently check the profiles of their long disconnected friends; was also seen on orkut, a social network which offers a feature showing who visited an Orkut user's profile. And there, Orkut users sometimes do find long forgotten friend silently visiting, never trying to officially connect.

Regarding, the insight that Facebook is not a place where people find dates. I do agree. You may find Facebook users liking and commenting on Facebook friend's shares, but the comments are seldom like the ones which encourage dating. This is not a researched finding, but most comments are too small, one or two liners to encourage any close interactions.


To conclude, we could have made more concrete views about Facebook and Happiness, if the sample of the study would have been more.


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Facebook , Facebook Study , Orkut , Social Networking , Studies

Facebook Study: Facebook use makes You Sad

Anil Singh Friday, August 16, 2013

Women More Addicted to Facebook

According to the recent study online internet addiction is linked to depression and loneliness. The addiction shows the similar signals as those people who are under influence of drugs, alcohol, and other chemical substances. Young woman who suffer from anxiety and insecurity more subject to this kind of risk

 Here’s the excerpt of the news

 Researchers have discovered that women who surf the net are most at risk of Internet addiction. They have uncovered new evidence of a genetic variant which makes people less likely to be able to tear themselves away from their computers - and the link occurred most frequently in women. The same genetic variation found to occur frequently in online addicts has already been linked to other forms of addiction - including nicotine addiction - and to loneliness and depression. "Internet addiction is not a figment of our imagination. Researchers and therapists are increasingly closing in on it," the Daily Mail quoted Dr Christian Montag, who led the research at the University of Bonn in Germany, as saying. His team interviewed 800 people about their internet habits, including how often they thought about it and how much of an impact they felt if they had to go without. They then looked at the genetic makeup of the 132 who seemed most hooked and compared them to a "healthy" group. Many of the 132 had the same genetic variant, which was also linked to nicotine addiction. "What we already know about the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in the brain is that a mutation on the related gene promotes addictive behaviour. It seems this connection is essential for both nicotine and internet addiction," Dr Montag said. "Within the group of subjects exhibiting problematic internet behaviour this variant occurs more frequently - particularly in women." This could be linked to a subgroup using social networks like Facebook," he added. The study has been published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine. (ANI)

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Women More Addicted to Facebook

jyoti Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Web Apps for Twitter

Twitter has just crossed the benchmark of 500 million users. No wonder if you really want to transform your tweeting experience into a superlative experience consider using these apps

Follow a conversation- If you want to follow conversation between two people Twitter users or friends or between twop celebrities, it is essential to head towards Contweets. All you have to do is to sign up and once done type Twitter, it will handle the users or you can even choose from the list of people you follow.

Site-www.contweets.com

Chat in a hashtag- Tweetchat can make your life convenient; if you are following certain hashtag. Type the hastag in the box and get a chat room type environment that provides you a list of all the tweets coming in. Also, all the tweets that you type in the dialog box is added in the hashtag too.

Site-tweetchat.com

Shorten the message- If you really have a hard time in compressing the tweet within 140 character limit. Try using 140it it will shorten up your message by using tricks like two instead of 2. It may look grammatically annoying, but your message will shorten up.

Site-140it.com

Schedule a tweet- You can also schedule a tweet that you want to sent latter. Here is an app that makes this possible. Use Twuffer and sign it with your id and write your tweet and specify date and time when you want to schedule it. A word of caution- check out the right time zone before you commence.

Site-twuffer.com

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Web Apps for Twitter

jyoti Monday, August 20, 2012

Facebook apps for Recruiters and Employers

Is Social Recruitment it the new trend that we are heading towards? The answer is yes; today more and more job seekers are moving away from traditional job boards and are finding employment through social networking sites. Here’s the list of Facebook apps through which you can chase your prospective employees.

Work@

It is an app that is installed by your current employee and it basically scans your profile and finds your friends that can be a prospective match for the vacant position. The alerts and notifications make task easy and convenient. Currently, it has 35,000 users and is available on free of cost basis.

Work For Us

It is an awesome facebook app for employees and recruiters. Presently, it has 76,000 users and through this app applicants can easily browse the jobs by location, category or keyword. Moreover, It has inbuilt application through which you can add your email or you can simply redirect recruiters to your website to fill the job application form. Work For Us is a boon for small companies and for companies that don’t have a need of year round posting. Depending upon your subscription amount this Facebook app also provides you free job ads.

JobCast.net

JobCast.net it is one among the best free job posting adds available on the Facebook. It syndicate RSS feed from your ATS, stream it and then post it on your Facebook page. 

Some other apps that customers tried were Notes, it also syndicated your RSS feed, but as the name job was missing. Hence, this app was not taken down well.

My LinkedIn Profile

It is one of the amazing apps for independent recruiters. It has over 17,000 users that is a pretty big figure. The only downfall of this app is it is available for pages, and not for profiles.

A few innovative changes can make a difference.

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Facebook apps for Recruiters and Employers

jyoti Thursday, August 9, 2012

How to Grow Your Facebook Fans

 Facebook has become a reliable source to generate awareness about your product. Here are some tips on how you can increase the loyalty.

Talk to your Fans as Friend

In the earlier times, businesses were not interactive enough but today the tables have turned. The communication has become an important part.

You can talk about your business through posts and through a facebook fan page. The posts need to be interesting, compelling and it should reflect your personality.

You can also share your personal life with your fans in form of picture of last vacation or it could be a weird picture from daily life.

Give your Fans Content

The next major factor that can provide you success is to give your fans the relevant content. Your posts have to satisfy the needs of information, inspiration and entertainment. It is the way you can connect with the different kinds of fans that you have.

For instance, if you have blog then you can share the posts on the Facebook page. It is the way that you can directly connect with the audience.

Interact with your fans- Remember, Facebook is not a broadcasting agent; it’s a platform where you not only need to add post, but you also need to add socializing element in it.  Interact with your audience and stick around what fans are doing and what they are demanding.

Make your fan a super fan- The next thing is try to make your fan a super fan who will try to promote your brand on the Facebook.

The way you can accomplish this mission is by regularly nudging your visitors to do a particular thing. For instance, you can ask them to play games or video or do anything that directly or indirectly have a strong impact on your posts.

Make your business page vivacious- A business page can be converted into a lively by rewarding most loyal fans. Also, you can praise them on your blog. It is an ideal way to spread your message and show your online presence.

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How to Grow Your Facebook Fans

jyoti Thursday, August 2, 2012