From Cyberpsychology, Monica Barbovschi (UBB): Meet the "E-Strangers": Predictors of teenagers' online-offline encounters; and Pavica Sheldon (LSU): "I'll poke you. You'll poke me!": Self-disclosure, social attraction, predictability and trust as important predictors of Facebook relationships. A Christmas Love Story: Walter Kirn on how Facebook cured his holiday loneliness. Some think Facebook eliminates the need for face-to-face meetups with former classmates, but online networking actually makes people more likely to want to see each other in person. Getting profiled: Whether Facebook ushers in an actual rather than hypothetical cyber-dystopia is very much up to us. From The Rumpus, an interview with an Anonymous Facebook Employee on privacy. Between all the scraps of info about you online, players in business, politics, and government may know a lot more about you than you'd think. Arise, Web users: If tech giants are making so much money off your data, at least demand a cut. From Vanity Fair, it’s a new kind of fame — twilebrity — with its own rules, risks, and pecking order. The children of cyberspace are old fogies by their 20s. Those refusing to use the Internet are one of the nation's fastest-shrinking minorities. "I'm old school": Ron Jeremy thinks the Internet is sort of evil. From New Scientist, are we being served by technological wonders or have we become enslaved by them? The Google decade ends: If the search king hasn’t ripped up your business yet, just wait. Here are 8 online fads you didn't know were invented decades ago.
