Suicidal teenager saved by Facebook friend - Telegraph
A British teenager who attempted to commit suicide was saved by police after a Facebook user on the other side of the Atlantic raised the alarm.
At last, a story about the potential BENEFITS of social networking for young people.
It also serves as a warning though: look how little information the police had to go on before finding the boy's actual address.Facebook saves businessman from bankruptcy - Telegraph
A struggling printer has saved his business from bankruptcy thanks to social networking website Facebook, he said.
In the light of all the negative stuff being published around social networking, it's good to see a write-up of the positive aspects. In this story, Facebook is used to bring the services of a near-bankrupt company to the attention of a wider audience.Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » Relationship Symmetry in Social Networks
Interesting analysis of the differences between Twitter and Facebook in terms of friends/followers. Concludes that Twitter is a more realistic reflection of how behave in everyday life. My view: yes, but so what?
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