Thou shalt not study on Facebook.

Student faces Facebook consequences
"Freshman hit with 147 academic charges for online study network at Ryerson University"

"Yet students argue Facebook groups are simply the new study hall for the wired generation." We find new ways to learn and what do they do. Anyone else used Facebook for studying?
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social networking

When i think of social networking, i think of Facebook. A way for friends to keep in touch and talk on the internet. It also allows for friends to express how they know each other. It gets down to the root of how people know each other. I also think it allows for people to [...]

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Social Networking, The Internet, & Etc.

After reading through some of these posts about social networking, I definitely see both the advantages and shortcomings of the rapidly progressing world of social networking via the internet. The pros are simple: it’s convenient, few limitations (like location), and it’s becoming more and more popular every day. But however appealing the convenience factor is, [...]

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Catching on

I read this article in Entrepreneur magazine over break and I thought I’d share it. Apparently even though some ppl are still in the dark ages and see web 2.0 sites as a negative, some are catching on.

Group Dynamics
Facebook could reap a bounty of benefits for your business. Should you join?
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Intellectual property issues over ideas

Article written by a friend about a friend
Double take - The politics of Facebook
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Bosses peek in on Facebook to screen job applicants

Millions of college students have joined the world of Facebook in the past two years. Students post profiles, share their interests, clubs, favorite movies, and share messages with others at their schools.
Although it was set up so that only students could join and use Facebook, some employers have found a way in to check out [...]

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Facebook - A model built on growth

When Facebook was released to the Ivy League schools, it benefited from a powerful group of early adopters. Zuckerberg isolated a need, and offered a standard solution. Facebook presented a simple approach to networking.
When individuals refer to “opening” up Facebook, they refer to the decision to make the service available to everyone, but [...]

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How much is Facebook worth?

In 2010, just two years from now, Facebook is expected to bring in 969 million in revenue and engage about 48 million users. Yahoo offered to buy Facebook for 1 billion, but Zuckerburgh and his partners turned it down.
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Facebook and Web 2.0

“Web 2.0″ was one of the biggest buzz words last year. It means different things to different people, but in general, “Web 2.0″ is the idea of user-generated and controlled content on the web — the idea of moving away from static web “pages” to more dynamic web applications (anything from google earth to ebay). This [...]

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troubles with facebook

Facebook first had controversy when it produced a program like Google called Beacon. This enabled people to share inforamtion with Facebook from browsing the web.
Mark Zuckerberg came under more controversy when two of his former classmates at Harvard claimed that he had stole their idea, origin, source code, and business plan.
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