“Perhaps because I wasn’t always getting updates on events happening in faraway places, I focused on the world around me, especially nearby Vanderbilt Avenue, which turns out to be quite a place, especially for food. Late one night, I entered a restaurant called Cornelius, lured by large-print signs in the window advertising meat. Whiskey. Oysters. I could not resist.”
“I bought a bicycle. Turns out it’s easier to ride the thing when you’re not trying to simultaneously check your Twitter.”
Foursquare’s new Time Machine feature lets you visualize your check-in history in infographic form.
Hashtags come to Facebook
“Hashtags on Facebook are just a first step. We’ll be rolling out more features in the coming weeks and months that make it even easier to discover and participate in conversations about shared interests on Facebook.”
…had it not been for social media, the government would likely have succeeded in hiding the protests from many Turks. Turkey is a country that jails more journalists than Iran, and it is hardly surprising that the mainstream Turkish media, which has been additionally co-opted by the authorities through financial measures, broadcast pictures of beauty contests and cooking shows for several days while parts of Istanbul and other cities were blanketed with tear gas.
“On Friday [May 31] I saw on Facebook that there were riots, and I came here [to the center of Istanbul],” a 29-year old teacher named Ulas said in a bar near Taksim Square. “There were many people and we fought them [the police] all night. But on Saturday I spoke to some of my friends here in Istanbul, and they had no idea what was going on. One, a leftist, was at the zoo. This is because they were watching penguin documentaries on the mainstream channels.”
How social media forced Turkish news organizations to change course
[Photos by Victor Kotsev for Fast Company]
“Social media is a bliss. I even tweeted to Jack Dorsey, thanking him for inventing such a big thing that gives all information to people who want to stay impartial and get to the real knowledge through checking through all this information and using their minds.”
25-year old Esin, who has been active in the Turkish protests, both in Gezi park and online.
![A nationally representative scientific sample of over 19,000 married and divorced people found that almost 35% of couples who married between 2005 and 2012 originally met each other online. The couples who met online were less likely to divorce, even after controlling for age, education, income, and race. Meeting over the web was also independently correlated with higher levels of marital satisfaction.
Interestingly, it matters where a couple first meets: in the wholesome, well-lit hotel ballrooms of Match.com and eHarmony? The banal, crowded corridors of Facebook?
This study says a lot about the different kinds of “neighborhoods” that people frequent online. Read more
[Image: Flickr user Patrik Jones]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e5bb299b8f4c201359760a4b6f9c898f/tumblr_mnw24iJEdW1qzt7h7o1_500.png)
A nationally representative scientific sample of over 19,000 married and divorced people found that almost 35% of couples who married between 2005 and 2012 originally met each other online. The couples who met online were less likely to divorce, even after controlling for age, education, income, and race. Meeting over the web was also independently correlated with higher levels of marital satisfaction.
Interestingly, it matters where a couple first meets: in the wholesome, well-lit hotel ballrooms of Match.com and eHarmony? The banal, crowded corridors of Facebook?
This study says a lot about the different kinds of “neighborhoods” that people frequent online. Read more
[Image: Flickr user Patrik Jones]
Twenty four people have reportedly been detained on charges of inciting riots and spreading anti-government propaganda.
“I’ve planned my funeral. I sat and wrote down my ideas the day after I discovered the metastatic nature of my cancer…I envisage it as a real celebration of my life, lived to the full and with a sense of purpose.”
Dr. Kate Granger has terminal cancer, and she’s tweeting from her deathbed.
JC Penney can’t catch a break.The retailer is in hot water after a Reddit user posted a photo of a tea kettle that supposedly resembles Adolf Hitler. The retailer has responded to the frenzy with a series of frantic tweets.
“Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It’s about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we’re educated.”
![Live at 1:30pm today — Digital Royalty CEO Amy Jo Martin will answer your questions about kids and digital branding:
Social media and kids: sounds scary, but there are upsides. Creating a great digital footprint can help your kids get into good colleges and secure lucrative jobs in the future. Submit your questions ahead of time here: http://trib.al/vQJvHrU
Also — be sure to read Amy Jo’s Fast Company essay today: The Truth About Kids And Social Media.
[Photo: Jill Richards]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/f8d1f5da362621c33270dfab40a2b821/tumblr_mnbbz8ZB0M1qzt7h7o1_400.jpg)
Live at 1:30pm today — Digital Royalty CEO Amy Jo Martin will answer your questions about kids and digital branding:
Social media and kids: sounds scary, but there are upsides. Creating a great digital footprint can help your kids get into good colleges and secure lucrative jobs in the future.
Submit your questions ahead of time here: http://trib.al/vQJvHrU
Also — be sure to read Amy Jo’s Fast Company essay today: The Truth About Kids And Social Media.
[Photo: Jill Richards]
Callie Schweitzer, director of Marketing and Communications for Vox Media (which publishes the Verge, SB Nation, and Polygon), prefers to call herself a hybrid between a journalist, a brand strategist, and an audience hacker.
Her tips for becoming a networking guru:
Be genuine. Be well-read. And follow-up.
Here, Schweitzer explains how to use new media to ‘network your way to the top.’
Where is Yahoo turning its attention to now? AllThingsD reports that Marissa Mayer iseyeing Tumblr with hopes to land some sort of deal, be it an acquisition or a percentage stake.
