It definitely does seem to be the story of the day – I spoke earlier in the day for 4-5 minutes via Skype – always interesting to see what gets picked up and how it’s interpreted (see on iPlayer) – I’m at the last 20-30 seconds of this clip:
Tag: Facebook
(Very) early this morning I had a chat with Mark Cummings on BBC Radio Gloucester about Gloucester Cathedral and a video they had removed from their Facebook page after an interfaith event (Full programme).
I’m at around 5 min 40 in this clip:
This morning this story broke:
The European Parliament is set to vote on Tuesday on new rules that could see teenagers banned from internet services such as Facebook, social media, messaging services or anything that processes their data, without explicit consent from their parent or guardian.
The last-minute amendment to the new European data protection regulations would make it illegal for companies to handle the data of anyone aged 15 or younger, raising the legal age of digital consent to 16 from 13.
I spoke about it on Premier Radio in The News Hour, around 45 minutes into the programme.
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Facebook hubs may influence grades
Useful thinking about university course Facebook groups, which students typically set up themselves:
At the start of term there is “a big rush” to create the most popular Facebook site for each course, Dr Steele-Davies said, pointing out it is likely that a number of students will attempt to set up a Facebook group designed to act as the online hub for students on a particular degree.
“You may not be aware, but this can actually have a massive effect on the performance of the [student] cohort,” he said. “If the wrong students set up [the most popular] group, and that’s the one everyone goes on, the amount of control they have…is massive.”
Read full story.
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Five Labs Personality Typing
A fascinating test came in via my RSS feed – using the last nearly 3000 words from Facebook stati, photos, etc. they decided that I’m not very extroverted…. erm…
Based on the initial responses to the site on Twitter, “people seem to identify pretty strongly with the personalities we generate,” said Nikita Bier, the co-founder of Five, which is working on a product for online conversations that will use similar technology. “Only about 10 percent said we were outright wrong about them.”
Read more about it in the New York Times.