Your Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn popularity may land you a job, cos look for well-connected people
MELBOURNE: Your popularity on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn may help you bag a job as companies are increasingly looking for well-connected and influential people, experts say. Digital experts say social media and recruitment now largely go hand in hand. While at the most basic level, companies check up on prospective employees to see if […]
Why I Don’t Care What My Facebook Friends Like
By now, we’ve all heard about Facebook’s Graph Search announcement. Does this mean I’ll finally be living in a utopian society where social media will guide my searches based on what my Facebook friends think about products? Will I finally be living a life of bliss when my online connections serve as my life compass? If my sarcasm is any […]
Video Games Help Treat Kids With Chronic Pain
Camille Bautista The Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., opened a new pain care complex on April 3, aiming to eliminate pain in young patients by using video games. Utilizing specially designed games combined with Microsoft’s Kinect technology, participants can improve their health without realizing they’re receiving treatment. The gamification places kids in an intergalactic world where they […]
When a Facebook Post Is a Cry for Help
By LIZ HERON In today’s connected world, it is not uncommon for high school and college students to use Facebook as a place to pour out their feelings, sometimes in intensely personal updates. Some are predictable melodrama and fairly harmless cries for validation — but not all. Facebook posts can serve as early warning signs for […]
Restaurant turns to Twitter to publicly shame customers who fail to keep reservations
You might want to think again before failing to keep a restaurant reservation after one eatery decided enough was enough and began publicly shaming no-shows on Twitter. Noah Ellis, the managing partner at the Vietnamese restaurant Red Medicine, said those people who booked a table but then never honoured their reservation ‘ruin restaurants’. ‘The a******* […]