The following is part of our series on different ways Facebook is used across the world. Read the previous blog post in this series here. If you have a story you’d like to share with us, please submit it here.
Marie* was expecting a typical day when she arrived at her advertising job one January day [...]
Are Facebook groups the new intervention? A new group on Facebook has been started by the son of John Mellencamp, the rock and roll legend. The purpose of the group is to rally support for Mellencamp to quit smoking. The deal made between father and son is that if 1,000,000 people join the [...]
Are Facebook groups the new intervention? A new group on Facebook has been started by the son of John Mellencamp, the rock and roll legend. The purpose of the group is to rally support for Mellencamp to quit smoking. The deal made between father and son is that if 1,000,000 people join the [...]
Over the summer I wrote about the Facebookization of Yahoo! as the company implemented support for Facebook from the Yahoo! homepage. Today, the company announced more widespread support of Facebook by implementing “Facebook Connect across Yahoo! properties worldwide”. This is a massive announcement for Facebook as Yahoo! is the largest portal on the [...]
Over the summer I wrote about the Facebookization of Yahoo! as the company implemented support for Facebook from the Yahoo! homepage. Today, the company announced more widespread support of Facebook by implementing “Facebook Connect across Yahoo! properties worldwide”. This is a massive announcement for Facebook as Yahoo! is the largest portal on the [...]
In Hong Kong, a young man created a group of support to the called Suicido “have to practise fake the suicide” (”I Have to practise the suicide”), that managed to assemble 190 members under the proposal to commit a suicide in mass next December 21, in fact, one of his [...]