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 * The Future of Facebook: Out with profile pages, in with the Timeline **

Mark Zuckerberg founder of Facebook took the stage today at the F8 Developers conference in San Francisco to announce some big changes with Facebook. In the wake of small changes they have made to the news feed, Facebook will also implement a new design they call "Timeline". There are those who criticize this new design idea and say that it can be detrimental to those less tech savvy users. However Facebook has high hopes that it could "steamroll" Google+ and Twitter. The idea of this new creation is to create a more immersive social experience than users have had to date. To compete with Twitter they also created the "Ticker" that has real time updates. Along with these new changes Facebook has also dealt with it's privacy issues, now making it possible to better control who you share your information with. Zuckerberg wanted the new profile sites to reflect more of a personal blog than a cluttered profile page. There will also be a larger role plated by third party apps. The use of these apps is what will help fill in your Timeline. For now Facebook plans to roll out the Timeline slowly, with the first ones to be published on 9/29. There is also an option to sign up for it at the bottom of their Timeline preview page.

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//**Facebook Revamps News Feed so You Never Miss Your Friends' Updates**// //**By Drew Inabinet**// [|Link] According to Ben Parr at Mashable.com, Facebook is making changes to the News Feed feature. The main purpose of the newly redesigned news feed is to keep the average facebook user updated on all of the important occasions in their friends lives, even if a person hasn't logged into facebook in a month. To create the new news feed, facebook has eliminated the “Top Stories and “Most Recent” links and has replaced it with a system that will organize the information on your news feed based on the last time you logged in. It is also reported that changes will be made to how photos are shown on the news feed as well. There will also be a ticker on every profile, that will update every facebook user on the events currently happening while a person is logged onto facebook. These are all major changes to facebook, it will be interesting to see how people react to the new changes, but this is another example of how facebook is continuing to grow and stay relevant.


 * Occupy Wall Street Supported by Social Media**
 * by Shoko Hachiya**

Occupy Wall Street, a wide-supported large scale non-violent protest, has been going on in lower Manhattan New York. The protest is against American capitalism, corrupted corporate state, and the political situation which allows only about 400 richest families in the U.S. controlling the wealth and political decisions. The protesters use the sophisticated social media operation such as livestream and a large presence on twitter. The protest is internationally supported and people are showing support by physically attending, sending money or in unique ways such as ordering pizza from local pizza shops to feed protesters. Inside voice of banking industry has been revealed by social media as well. loose lips twitter Anonymous bankers' conversations and jokes on twitter implies how they arrogantly see themselves separately from "poor people" or 99% of the citizens. According to the article on guardian.co.uk, "one of New York's better-known billionaires, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, commented on the protests: 'You have a lot of kids graduating college, can't find jobs. That's what happened in Cairo. That's what happened in Madrid. You don't want those kinds of riots here.'" Social Media is not only used to organize the protest, but also revealing insiders' voice.

=**Google+ Invites the World Into Its Social Circles**= Google Plus has brought a whole new meaning for the social networking world. Google plus could take the place of Facebook with all its new features that Facebook does not provide. For instance, Google Plus has a feature called, “hangouts,” which allows users to use their mobile devices with front –facing cameras. Google plus also offers “screen sharing,” which allows users share images on their screen. Another, interesting feature of this new social networking site called, “Hangouts on Air,” which allows user to broadcast themselves live and add up to nine users in one group! The big question is how is Facebook handling this new social networking site? The answer is simple. Facebook is making its own series of changes that will continue. The article suggest that, “Both companies appear to be in reactive mode, determined not to let the other gain an edge in any one functional area.” This will be an interesting to see which social networking site will gain more stature. One thing for sure, is that users are already thinking about switching. Some of my friends on Facebook are already updating their status saying, “Goodbye Facebook, hello Google Plus.”
 * by Ashley Cingolani**

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New Study finds Women on Top in the Social Media Game
by Taylor Restaino Source

We all grew up learning the differences between men and women, so it is no surprise when a Mashable.com article discusses a study where women and men are once again split into separate categories, as far as social networking goes. The study, created by Rebtel to research the future of social media, ended up showing the trends of female social media activity compared to a male's. In the end, researchers discovered that men are more into phone and voice communicate, unlike their lady counterparts, who are more inclined to use the internet to communicate with friends, family and peers. Along with multiple findings and data proving their point, the article shows graphs, like the one below to show female dominance of the social network sphere. With these results, it is only a question of what is to come next of social media, especially if women are taking control of this medium. Get it girl! ** Social Media around the World ** By: Melissa Roldan

Although we are experiencing a fast growing social media industry here in the U.S., the same is not so for other countries around the world. In the article, [], the author outlines the basic current social media standing within various countries


 * Brazil**- The most popular social media site is called Orkut with about 30 million users. Twitter is second with 20%
 * Mexico**- The main problem still remains in that only 25%of the population has internet access, leaving a lot of room for growth in industries like twitter and facebook still to come.
 * China**- social media sites such as Kaixin001 and Xing are the most popular, partly because of the Golden Shield Project enforced by the Chinese government. “This national firewall serves as a barrier to sites like Facebook and Twitter.”
 * India**- Seeing a larger, faster increase in users of facebook than Orkut.
 * Japan**- While twitter is slowly gaining popularity, Mixi still remains supreme.
 * Korea**- Cyworld, a similar idea to facebook with more animation is still dominant, but predictions see facebook taking over in years to come.
 * Russia-** Social Media is dominated by 4 local networking sites.
 * UK**- The UK is facing similar trends to U.S. with facebook as the current dominant player.
 * Spain**- Facebook has just recently ousted Spain’s popular social media site called Tuenti.
 * France**- Facebook has also recently taken over the local social media site of choice, skyrock.
 * Germany-** StudiVz, a student oriented social media site remains in the lead, while the government is still attempting to prevent the breakthrough of facebook.
 * The Netherlands**- Facebook and Twitter are in the process of reaching domination of their social media.
 * United States**- With over 75% of people with internet access, about 50% are involved in sites like facebook.

This article also outlined the predicted future of social media around the world. Overall, a general increase in activity is expected everywhere due to the increase in things like mobile media. We are also seeing most of the online content being produced from Asian countries, which is predicted to continue. Another main point of the article was the fast growing influence of video hosting sites, alongside a more steady growth of sites like facebook and twitter. I really enjoyed this article for putting the current social media standing of other countries into perspective. It is interesting to see just how different people’s lives remain in a world that is more globalized today than ever before. I can only imagine the changes yet to come.