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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 21:59 |
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Hi, my name is Evan and I’m a Social Networking Addict. Comedian, Andy Borowitz’s latest Huffington Post blog entry attributes Senator Evan Bayh’s retirement to Facebook Farmville Addiction.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Saturday, 30 January 2010 12:35 |
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It started with insults flying back and forth on Facebook. It ended with three people shot.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Thursday, 14 January 2010 14:43 |
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Facebook had a master password that allowed employees to access any account and still records far more information about how you use the site than you’d assume, according to a new interview with a Facebook insider.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Wednesday, 06 January 2010 20:40 |
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In my new book,“Facebook Addiction: The Life & Times of Social Networking Addicts”, there is a character named Zoe Mecklin that sets up a Facebook Account for her Yorkshire Terrier, Fluffy. The goal of this entry was to profile some real Facebook users that have set up FB Accounts for their pets.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Thursday, 31 December 2009 18:11 |
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It would appear that married folks are CREEPING on Facebook. A new study states that 1 in 5 divorces are blamed on the popular social networking site, Facebook. 20% of 5,000 divorce papers analyzed by CNN source, Divorce-Online, made references to Facebook. Spouses were accused of having sexual chats with Online Friends. This takes our Facebook Addiction term "SNEAKING" to the next level.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Tuesday, 29 December 2009 17:07 |
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Teenage violence is now viral via Social Networking Sites like Facebook. On December 23rd 2009, Salum Kombo, 18, of London, was stabbed to death over a Facebook Wall Post.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Sunday, 27 December 2009 02:28 |
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Are you HUNGRY? If so, maybe you should get a job at Facebook. Forget free massages, at work spa treatments, or 24-hour health club services. It is all about FOOD. Guess what? It is working.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Thursday, 24 December 2009 13:00 |
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You are serving a 7-year bid for aggravated burglary. You hatch out an escape plan like Wentworth aka “Michael Scofield” from the T.V show “Prison Break.” It actually works. You are now an escaped PRISONER aka FUGITIVE and besides good food, sex, and FREEDOM, you also miss FACEBOOK.
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Written by Tara Zoumer
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Thursday, 24 December 2009 01:09 |
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Facebook has changed they way I experience the holidays. Since several of my relatives in Canada have joined we can now keep in touch and wish each other well, share photos and share stories with the click of a button. The convenience is priceless. However, this year I had a friend in New York post a good question just before thanksgiving, “should I mass text or facebook everyone this turkey day?” I realized that last year I did just that, mass text and post up a status change. How pathetic and impersonal! I decided he was right. For friends I am not particularly close with I did still wish them well via facebook but for people I call family they got something more than a remote message.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:45 |
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This is a sad case of child manipulation with social networking being used as the tool. A 19-year (New Berlin) Wisconsin man, Anthony Stancl, posed as a girl and convinced 31 New Berlin Eisenhower high school boys to send him nude pictures. He then used those nude pictures to blackmail them into performing sexual acts.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 02:20 |
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You are detective driving your HUMMER through the BIG SNOW STORM of 2009. All of a sudden snowballs start flying at your HUMMER. You are visibly pissed and come out of your car, only to be met with more snowballs. You then brandish your GUN.
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Written by Genna
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Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:11 |
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I found my love because of facebook usage. He saw my picture about a year ago through a mutual friend we had and realized we went to the same elementary school. He was a year younger than me, however, and we did not know each other. At any rate, he thought I was attractive and decided to friend me.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009 21:33 |
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Do think you spend too much time on Facebook? Don’t feel bad, you are not alone. According to Comscore, Facebook Accounts for 5.5% of all time spent online in the U.S. That is a pretty HUGE percentage for a single Internet site.
I guess, “Facebook Addiction” is EXTREMELY relevant… LOL.
Additional Sources Mashable
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Monday, 14 December 2009 16:20 |
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This was the question that my team and I pondered upon planning the Book Release Party for “Facebook Addiction: The Life & Times of Social Networking Addicts.”
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Written by Jenn Kaye
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 19:30 |
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As a communication and relationship expert I have been in no shortage of providing advice, tips and support for those looking to have more connection, communication and romance in their relationships. The irony of all that was that I was not in the relationship of my dreams. After ending that relationship just a few short weeks ago I threw down the gauntlet with the powers that BE and said "Enough is Enough." I layed down the law and explained that I was done playing in the little league and that if I wasn't going to get BIG love in my own relationship, then quite simply I was done.
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Written by Tamika Morrison
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Monday, 07 December 2009 18:32 |
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Tanya P recently left her husband of less than a year because of Facebook. Tanya and her ex-hubby actually reconnected via facebook when he befriended her. Her junior high school crush, Tanya was still smitten by what she “knew” of ex-hubby when they were teenagers. Cute, charming, popular – he was an athlete and got all the girls attention. So maybe her ego was stroked a bit by his attraction.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Friday, 04 December 2009 00:39 |
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Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. They court for a while. Boy and Girl fall in love. They state their LOVE to the world and finally decide to get married. The preacher stands before them and pronounces them man and wife. At that moment they PAUSE and ...
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Written by Patty Mooney
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Saturday, 28 November 2009 15:27 |
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Addictions? I have always scoffed at the thought of myself possibly being addicted to anything other than love, fun and okay, chocolate. I drink beers and take Motrins as needed, and certainly have never messed with cigarettes or heroin, so I’ve kept myself safe from those monkeys on my back.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Tuesday, 24 November 2009 19:35 |
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In these days of technology, we have introduced our parents to texting. Now it’s time for the next stage in evolution, Facebook!!! Below are some stories of Mothers staying in touch with their children via Facebook.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Monday, 23 November 2009 14:38 |
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So, you’re on medical leave from work due to depression. Your insurance company is sending you monthly checks as part of your benefits package. You visit your doctor. He suggests that you have a little a fun. Of course, you should always take the doctor’s advice. You know - advice like exercise, vitamins, apples, etc. So why should this prescription of FUN be any different?
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Written by Jordan Kasteler
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Saturday, 21 November 2009 22:56 |
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There is an overall concern that Facebook has been breeding jealousy in couples that use it. In the article "Facebook Can Threaten Relationships" it states that, "Social psychologists from the University of Guelph in Canada queried college students who were in romantic relationships about their Facebook use. Their preliminary findings, described in the journal CyberPsychology & Behavior, suggest that rather than enhancing communication between romantic partners, Facebook use may be fueling wild flights of jealous investigation, as users in relationships perceive hints of potential infidelity and then scramble to find evidence of a partner's unfaithful thoughts or behavior."
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:21 |
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So you're at a club having a good time, dancing on stage. You notice someone giving you mean looks. You think nothing of it and continue enjoying yourself. You dismiss the gritty looks, to a tad bit of "HATE." Out of nowhere, those mean looks get violent. The person walks up and grabs you off the stage, onto the floor, and then smashes glass in your face.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 11:53 |
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We have all seen the tight leather wearing, whip dangling, physically/verbally abusive portrayals of S&M (Sadomasochism) on T.V or the movies. A random picture that pops into my head is a character from Pulp Fiction referred to as “The Gimp.” Guess you had to have seen the movie. Another thought was a random encounter with a woman at a bar who told me that was her profession. She worked at a club where men paid her to beat the crap out of them. I found the whole thing rather interesting and because of my blogging ways, I wanted to tape it or actually witness a “BEATING.” Well, needless to say, I never got the opportunity.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Sunday, 15 November 2009 15:50 |
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So you’re at home and update your status with something random like your hunger for “pancakes.” The next day, cops pick you up on a robbery charge. At the trial, your lawyers use your Facebook status as an alibi. The district attorney subpoenas Facebook to verify that the status update was indeed typed from your home computer. Guess what? The good folks at Facebook validate that your status update was posted from your home computer. All charges get dropped. You are now FREE.
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Written by Morgandorfa
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Friday, 13 November 2009 05:38 |
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I've been fortunate to read the Advanced Readers Copy as I have been researching the topic of Facebook/Social Networking Addiction for one of my graduate courses. And I can certainly relate to the vignettes illustrated in this book.
As a counseling student, and dedicated user of Facebook since signing up in 2004, I have spent countless hours connecting with friends, writing on their walls, super-poking, buying them (buy your friends), partaking in surveys/trivia, playing a week long session of scrabulous (before it got removed), and the list goes on. I have routinely checked my Mafia Wars character even before getting out of bed in the morning (and I'll perhaps check it after blogging this post before going to bed).
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Written by Anonymous
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Saturday, 07 November 2009 13:58 |
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An old buddy of mine, John found me recently on Facebook. This isn’t particularly interesting or out of the ordinary. Just about everyone has had old acquaintances find them on Facebook, right? Without the curiosity of wondering what happened to old friends, Facebook wouldn’t even exist, would it? Myspace would because there’s millions of crappy bands and wannabe porn stars to populate it. So when John finds me it opens a rabbit hole to all of these other old friends. One person in this rabbit hole is Jeremy.
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Written by Cassie
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Friday, 06 November 2009 14:07 |
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I was Facebook stalked my freshman year of college. It was in 2004, right when Facebook was becoming big. My privacy settings allowed other UCSB students to view all of my info.
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Written by THOMAS BRENNAN
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 21:57 |
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AS AN EXPERT IN PR AND OWNER OF A PR COMPANY AND SOMEONE WHO HAS PERSONALLY BOOKED THE MOST IMPORTANT MEDIA VENUES FROM OPRAH TO THE NY TIMES, YOU WOULD THINK I AM PRETTY SMART. BUT NOT ALWAYS. ANYONE CAN FALL PREY TO THEIR SWEET MEMORIES OF THE PAST, ESPECIALLY HIGH SCHOOL ACQUAINTENCES WHO WERE GREAT, WELL-LOVED KIDS ON CAMPUS. THIS STORY IS ESPECIALLY GALLING TO ME, BECAUSE I WAS ALWAYS THE ONE WHO WARNED CLIENTS TO DO BACKGROUND CHECKS ON PEOPLE.
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Written by Victoria Woodson
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Monday, 02 November 2009 17:02 |
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On February 8, 2009 Angela Woodson-Cooper and I met on FB (Facebook) through a mutual friend. After jokingly calling her my cousin, we (Angela and I) decided to do some research.
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Written by Bram
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Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:09 |
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It was a cold and rainy night when I was sitting at home. Bored as I was I started browsing around on Facebook and playing on several Facebook applications, one of them being the application “Friends for Sale.” The goal of this application is to "buy" and "sell" your Facebook friends, or others that installed the application, earning as much money as possible. A profit is obtained because you receive a profit for any sale you make. In addition, every time a person buys you, you will receive a share of the sales price. This sale is not voluntarily, which means that occasionally a "pet" is bought despite that you prefer to keep him or her. This also happened that evening. One of my "pets" was bought by a woman I did not know. I took a look at the profile of this woman and could see not only the person I lost but also all her other “pets.” Among them there was one picture that stood out. The charming look on the picture made me decide to buy her and I paid the 530 virtual dollars not knowing what would happen in the nearby future.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 19:23 |
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Some people update their Facebook status while at work. It has actually become such a common practice that some businesses have implemented “Facebook Fridays.” The concept of Facebook Friday is to give employees an hour on Friday to socialize on Facebook with their friends and family.
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Written by Bridget Starkey
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Monday, 26 October 2009 10:31 |
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I saw your request for Facebook love stories and wanted to share mine with you. Brandon and I met on the playground at Precious Preschool (San Jose, CA) in 1988. I was his "first friend," as he quoted in his 8th grade autobiography.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Saturday, 24 October 2009 18:42 |
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A recent study showed that 27% of 35-year-olds and younger check Facebook more than 10 times a day. WOW. So maybe my upcoming fictional book, “Facebook Addiction: The Life and Times of Social Networking Addicts” is onto something.
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Written by Bernard F.
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Friday, 23 October 2009 21:44 |
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I've been in the fashion business as a designer for many years. If you're interested in the life and stories of a 'real' fashion designer's life please check out my fashionlife daily blog at - http://bernardfoong.typepad.com/fashionlife/ I'll love to hear your comments and/or connect with you if you have any queries.
All the Best!
Bernard Foong.
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Written by Candi Wingate
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 16:31 |
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Social networking is exploding in popularity and sites like Facebook are attracting fans of all ages. In fact, parents have become one of the fastest growing demographics on Facebook, and they’re using the interactive tool for more than just chatting with their friends. They’re using it to screen for - and check up on - their nannies.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009 13:56 |
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Came across this article and found it interesting. The organization that runs the memorial for Auschwitz decided to create a presence on Facebook via a Fanpage. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of Nazi Germany's concentration camps and extermination camps, operational during World War II. There are mixed views with creating a Facebook Fanpage, but a spokesman stated that the reason behind the launch was to "educate the younger generation" and “what better tool can we use to reach them than the tools they use themselves?”
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Written by Patty Bell
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Monday, 19 October 2009 17:04 |
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I work as a film, photography & television makeup artist and have been on Facebook for about a year.
My account is set to private and I got on it initially to stay in touch with my niece who is in college and then discovered this whole other world out there of producers, directors, actors, models, and photographers all in my field.... networking.
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Written by Chris Dessi
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Monday, 19 October 2009 00:29 |
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What motivated me to build the site (http://www.FacebookShouldHireMe.com) was unemployment and passion for social media. About one year ago I was at the Web 2.0 conference and heard Gary Vaynerchuk Keynote. Hearing that keynote along with hearing Michael Lazerow speak (CEO of Buddy Media and my current boss) changed my life. I was VP of Sales at a multi-national performance based ad network and was miserable. I was making a ton of cash, had big title, but I wasn't fulfilled.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:36 |
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Recently, I came across the concept of a social networking “refusenik” from a Washington Post Article. A refusenik is someone that does not choose to join a social networking site (i.e. Facebook). Some of these people still correspond with others by relaying messages back and forth with their social networking secretaries (i.e. wives, girlfriends, family members, offline friends, etc).
I have a friend from college that is a refusenik. I’m actually FB friends with his mom. We were thinking of starting a Facebook fanpage for him because everyone keeps asking for him. Instead, I made him a fictional character in my upcoming book, “Facebook Addiction: The Life and Times of Social Networking Addicts”. The book will be available on 12.01.09 so it should be interesting to see his reaction when he reads it. We also set up an associated blog where people can upload their own Facebook Addiction story. http://www.TheFacebookAddiciton.com
Full Washington Post Article by Ian Shapira
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Written by Zlata Thoughts
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Friday, 16 October 2009 11:15 |
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A few years ago, I was in a long distance relationship. He was a fifth year college student at University of Vermont and I was already in the "Real World" of PR having graduated in the normal span of four years. As his graduation date approached, I became excited at the thought of us living in the same city after two and a half years of weekend visits. To keep the story short, I set him up with a job in New York City. What's worse is that this job was for a company from which my PR agency rented office space. Read: We worked in the same office and saw each other everyday.
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Written by JONATHAN HARWOOD
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Thursday, 15 October 2009 14:06 |
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Afugitive from American justice is behind bars in Mexico, awaiting extradition, after US authorities were able to track him down because he boasted on Facebook of the exotic life he was leading on the run.
Maxi Sopo fled the States in February after he realised that federal agents were closing in on an alleged bank fraud scam that had netted more than $200,000. He was caught when investigators discovered his whereabouts thanks to one of his Facebook 'friends'.
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Written by Janie Lacy
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 14:37 |
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Are you a part of this social-networking phenomenon? It has been described as addictive and “like crack.” I, myself, have joined Facebook in the last several months. I got tired of “why aren’t you on Facebook?” Please don’t get me wrong, I love staying connected with family and friends through the network, however, I have several clients that have ruined the intimacy in their relationship by allowing Facebook to consume their time and energy more than their spouse. According to a recent University of California, Los Angeles, report “the cost of Facebook could be the devaluing of real friendships and the reduction of face to face interactions.”
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Written by Theo Stripling
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:41 |
1. Putting all type of pictures/videos/posts up during college and how I had to change the page for the professional world.
Many pictures and videos that I was in included lots of partying. House parties, tailgating, clubs, drinking games, etc. were all focuses of the pictures and posts. This feature of facebook was rather interesting being a freshmen college student. Many times my friends looked on facebook to see what things other people were getting into. However, the downside of posting all our personal lives hit me when I became a senior. We took classes that touched on how the internet is changing the world. We noticed that our pictures needed to be cleaned up because they involved much or out college party life and not the more professional or personable aspects of it.
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Written by Crystal Brown-Tatum
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009 04:09 |
Hello! I have actually lost several female friendships because of Facebook. What makes the loss of these friendships shocking is that I am a two year breast cancer survivor.
I signed up for Facebook about a year ago at the suggestion of my 15 year old daughter. It was so exciting to hear from people I hadn't communicated with since high school. Less than a year later, I had more than 1500 friends.
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Written by Jennifer Ginsberg
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Saturday, 10 October 2009 15:23 |
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When my long lost buddy sent me a Facebook friend request nearly a year ago, I was ecstatic. Claire and I were inseparable all throughout high school. We finished each other’s sentences and shared not only our clothes and makeup, but our darkest secrets and fantasies as well.
Then, in the middle of our senior year, she got a boyfriend and I was quickly fazed out. I was hurt that she could so easily turn her back on our friendship for some dude (who turned out to be a complete asshole-of course!) after all we had been through. What I learned is that there are some girls who cannot maintain relationships with their friends once they have a guy in their life. Claire was one of those girls.
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Written by Brooke Kelley
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Friday, 09 October 2009 03:02 |
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My name is Brooke Kelley, and I'm an addict. A social networking addict, that is. I begrudgingly signed up for a facebook account this year after putting it off for way too long. I just did it cuz everyone else was doing it. Peer pressure can really make or break you.
My very first post said: Brooke Kelley is concerned that she might have a social networking addiction.
After all, I did already have 12 other social networking accounts, and I really didn't need another one. Anyway, you know how they say just one hit and you're hooked? Well for me, it took a couple of months, but I had been using every single day, so it's no wonder I finally had to come to the conclusion that I wasn't going to make it thru the day without my fb.
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Written by Candice "CanCan" Broom
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:03 |
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One could possibly describe my relationship with Facebook as "addiction".
I recently went on a trip to Vietnam by myself and for some reason felt compelled to micro blog the entire thing on Facebook. Also I am ashamed to say I visit Facebook when I am on the toilet and sometimes I pretend I'm still getting ready for the day when really I am on Facebook. I think my husband suspects.
I use Facebook as my primary way to contact people, instead of using the phone. I got in touch with a friend in Vietnam using Facebook, and I have arranged playdates and even did my kids birthday party invites via Facebook message.
On a sober note, I had a friend go through a rough time recently of losing a baby. When I heard the first thing I did was write a message on facebook (private message). Then I went to a flower delivery website and arranged to have something sent to her. I love the internet.
I have a fan page for my blog and when I get more fans, my self esteem also increases.
Best,
CanCan
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www.MomMostTraveled.com
http://www.twitter.com/MomMostTraveled
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Written by eCampusNews.com
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:47 |
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College freshmen's newfound freedom sometimes leads to unbridled game playing and social networking
The proliferation of online social networks and video games has led to the rise of what many psychologists are calling a very real phenomenon: internet addiction. And college students, researchers say, are vulnerable to pathological computer use because they are living by themselves for the first time and have uninhibited access to games and sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Nonstop video-game playing and web surfing has led to the opening of a new internet addiction center in the United States, and experts on computer overuse say they expect web addiction soon will be treated like any other addiction, such as alcohol or drug abuse.
University of Iowa student Ben Alexander spent nearly every waking minute playing the video game "World of Warcraft." As a result, he flunked out of school.
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Written by Tasha
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Friday, 11 September 2009 17:40 |
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For a long long time I received those constant request from friends who were on Facebook asking me to 'check out' their profile or pictures or something or the other.
I thought they were a bit of a nuisance to be honest.Social networking wasnt my thing.......or so I thought.
I am not very sure what 'demon' possessed me back in January of 2008 but I thought it was time to finally see what all these people were on about.I set up my very own FB account.I had loads of friend requests waiting for me.The moment I got on, I had what can only described as cold feet and I promptly deactivated my account.I explained to a friend later that evening that I felt I was too much of a 'private person' to survive on FB.He somehow encouraged me to get back on so I did the following day."You dont have to update your status all the time or do anything you dont want to","There are lots of privacy settings" he said.I felt a bit more relaxed and got back on.
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Written by Nnamdi Godson Osuagwu
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Friday, 11 September 2009 12:56 |
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Before I begin, I have to admit that I’m a tad bit of a GEEK. Besides spending lots of time at the gym, having extroverted tendencies, and having a natural inclination for anything that makes my heart skip a beat (i.e. skydiving and rock climbing), I’m a bit of NERD that spends hours upon hours (did I say hours?) in front of my laptop. Ok, in these times of Facebook and Twitter, who doesn’t? Well, I majored in Computer Science and wrote programs using Pascal in high school, not to mention Assembly Language in college. I should get TECH “CRED” just for mentioning Pascal/Assembly Language and being in my early thirties. Ok if that does not convince you, I think that the Intel commercial portraying Ajay Bhatt (the co-inventor of Universal Serial Bus or USB) as a Rock Star was brilliant.
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