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Stephen Wolfram shares interesting Facebook data analysis finds from the Data Donor program of Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook. 
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In the world of Facebook, users are either kings or lemmings. That's the conclusion of a new study, the largest to analyze how information spreads across social networks—and who does the spreading. More on SOCIAL NETWORKS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=social%20networks
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Ancient rock art has been likened to a prehistoric form of Facebook by a Cambridge archaeologist. Mark Sapwell, who is a PhD archaeology student at St John’s College, believes he has discovered an “archaic version” of the social networking site, where users share thoughts and emotions and give stamps of approval to other contributions – similar to the Facebook “like”.
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The Brazilian fashion retailer C&A has created networked clothes hooks that display the total number of Facebook “Likes” for each garment in real time. Articles about CROWDSOURCING: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=crowdsourcing
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Does the conception of social relations promoted by social networking sites blind us to the reality of social class and conflict between classes? Articles about FACEBOOK: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=facebook
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Want a job at a public agency? Well, you'd better be prepared to hand over your Facebook password or "friend" the HR department rep during your interview.
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![Teenagers And Facebook: The Appeal Is Wearing Off [Infographic] | Science News | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/3nJobeZRd_Ni8BWWJxlH-jl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
The trend involving teenagers and Facebook seems to be changing. Teens are becoming bored with Facebook, and Facebook users are getting older.
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Large clusters of rock art spanning thousands of years but located at the same site may hold key to detecting massive cultural changes in prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the north.
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Whether you’re an iPerson who can’t live without a Mac, a Facebook addict, or a gamer, you know that social media and technology say things about your personality and thought processes. And psychological scientists know it too – they’ve started researching how new media and devices both reveal and change our mental states.
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Many people constantly update about their lives on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter mainly because of the “kicks” that self disclosure offers.
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For everything, there is a season. And for every relationship, it seems, there is a status update on Facebook.
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Twitter and Facebook are more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol, researchers claim.
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We’re starting to be able to train a serious “computational telescope” on the “social universe”. And it’s letting us discover all sorts of phenomena. That have the potential to help us understand much more about society and about ourselves. And that, by the way, provide great examples of what can be achieved with data science, and with the technology I’ve been working on developing for so long.