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Recently, Sell Hack, a browser plugin for the Google Chrome browser made quite a noise in the social networking arena. The email addresses of LinkedIn users was easily exposed via this web browser add-on tool. Made available as free extension for the Chrome browser, all one had to do was to download the plugin and install it on his/her machine and click “Hack In” button, popping up on LinkedIn profiles. And, with the click of a button, one could view the email address associated with the account, even if the account’s not a connected one. The plugin, thus exposed email addresses of all the LinkedIn users, leading to the issues of emails being flooded with spams. LikedIn intended to take legal action over the plug-in and also advised the users to uninstall the plugin. The Sell Hack team however was trying to maintain integrity all the while. They defended themselves saying the tool was created for marketing professionals and argued that all the data pulled for making email addresses wer...

We’ve got hundreds of friends and followers on social networks like Facebook and Twitter ? We can share our thoughts to so many people at the click of a button. It looks like we’ve got a plenty of folks who care about us. But do they truly care about us? There have been several research findings which suggest that the social networks are making us lonely, in reality. But none of them have beautifully executed the thought as done by the following animated clip titled “The Innovation of Loneliness”. This video, with the use of excellent visual graphics and motion design, illustrates how the social networks are affecting us negatively , i.e. they’re making us lonely. The video was created by motion designer Shimi Cohen as his final project at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design and draws inspiration from Sherry Turkle ’s book Alone Together. The major points from the video are: The maximum number for a group of monkeys to function well and maintain the social order is 50. For ...

The world wide web turned 25 years old recently. But it is getting younger and younger day after day. How’s that?  Well, we aren’t saying the web is getting younger through things like reverse aging. What we mean to say is that the internet is being used by younger people more so than ever. The internet is being accessed by a much younger age group than the age group that used to access it in the early years of the web. The beautiful infographics below, created by webfx highlights the key stats about how the web is getting younger day by day. The infographics suggests several figures which justify the fact that the web is getting younger than ever at the present time. The key stats from the above infographics are as follows: In 2000, web was accessible to 40% people, now the access has reached to 82%. 93% people of both 18-29 and 30-49 age group own cell phone. 18-29 age group is the most active age group on social media at 88%. 36% of the teens wish they could go back to the tim...