Larry Neale and Rebekah Russell-Bennett (QUT): What Value Do Users Derive from Social Networking Applications? From Gelf, Caroline McCarthy balances covering the richness of social media with public socializing in her own right. Social-networking sites can be a career boon — if you don't annoy people in the process. Available all the time: An article on etiquette for the social networking age. On popular Web sites devoted to social networking, innovative verbs have been springing up to describe equally innovative forms of interaction. Why Gen-Y Johnny can't read nonverbal cues: An emphasis on social networking puts younger people at a face-to-face disadvantage. What's the optimal number of Facebook friends? A look at how Facebook can ruin your friendships. The Facebook divorce: Couples are broadcasting their breakups online while friends — and lawyers! — watch in amazement and horror. Facebook exodus: Why some Facebook members are moving on. From The Root, an article on the Facebook/MySpace divide: It’s not as deep as you may think; and MySpace to Facebook = White Flight, or is a new study a reminder that the Internet is not a uniform public space? Danah Boyd on how Facebook and MySpace users are clearly divided along class lines. A dispute over Facebook's geography settings has riled Israeli settlers and spurred a Syrian boycott of the site. We’ve all spent so much time and effort being worried about formal surveillance — all those street and lobby cameras — that we’re in danger of forgetting how much we cooperate in surveilling and being surveilled online.
