April 16, 2020

PR Newswire: Free Statewide Program Seeks To Connect 10,000 Older Adults Isolated By COVID-19 With Background-Checked Phone Volunteers

PR Newswire: Free Statewide Program Seeks To Connect 10,000 Older Adults Isolated By COVID-19 With Background-Checked Phone Volunteers (PRESS RELEASE). “Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly (LBFE) today is launching a statewide effort to enroll 10,000 lonely and isolated older adults in Minnesota in its new Elder Friends Phone Companions program, which matches elders with background-checked volunteer phone companions who are ready to share an on-going friendship by phone during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.”

COVID-19 0
February 25, 2020

WMUR: This app helps people with special needs make friends

WMUR: This app helps people with special needs make friends. “In its first stage, the web app is a website that operates like an app. As she works to build the database and gain users, the focus is on chatting. In the next six months or so, [Juliana] Fetherman hopes to have the iPhone and Android app developed. MAF asks users their name, age, location and diagnosis. Eventually, the algorithm will match people based off diagnoses. Currently, it shows everybody’s location (based off of zip code only) and allows people to connect with one another.”

Around the Search & Social Media World 0
October 13, 2017

ScienceNews: On social media, privacy is no longer a personal choice

ScienceNews: On social media, privacy is no longer a personal choice. “Some people might think that online privacy is a, well, private matter. If you don’t want your information getting out online, don’t put it on social media. Simple, right But keeping your information private isn’t just about your own choices. It’s about your friends’ choices, too. Results from a study of a now-defunct social media site show that the inhabitants of the digital age may need to stop and think about just how much they control their personal information, and where the boundaries of their privacy are.”

Research & Opinion 0
December 8, 2016

Academia.edu: Liquid Love, Facebook and Friendship: a case study

On Academia.edu: Liquid Love, Facebook and Friendship: a case study. “According to Bauman’s Liquid Love (2003), the advance in virtual proximity makes human connections frequent and shallower and simultaneously intense and shorter. It makes us wonder if ‘friendships’ on social networks are for ‘the good, the pleasant or useful’ (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII ).The aim of this study is to investigate three different types of relationships between young Internet users; exclusive Facebook friend, recently added Facebook friend and exclusive face-to-face friend with regard to social attraction,self-disclosure, predictability, trust, gender, length of relationship, self-esteem and sociability.” You have to wade through a really long TOC and acknowledgements, but keep going and you’ll get to the paper.

Research & Opinion 0
October 31, 2015

Google Wants To Help You Find Out “Who’s Down”

Want to socialize more? Tired of sitting in a dark room looking at a screen? Google wants you to help find Who’s Down. (Google amazes me with its name choices; I thought for a minute this was for finding friends who were in some kind of bad situation or otherwise out-of-touch; “down”. Is my old age showing? Of course it is.) “It’s an invite-only app that simply shows you whether you’re ‘down’ to hang out — presumably, once you have confirmed that you are indeed ‘down,’ your friends nearby will see that status and include you in whatever wonderful activities they have planned.”

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