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Twitter Rules vs. Community Values

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Some of these are legislated, and some of them simply come from community values. My rules are based on a combination of factors, like why I am on Twitter, my personal standard of ethics, my perception of community values, and Twitter’s TOS. If you use Twitter as a kind of AIM/MySpace 2.0, Rules have numerous origins.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

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Guy Kawasaki once said that one measure of a company’s commitment to the Macintosh community was whether the CEO could be found in the company’s Macworld booth. MySpace Is Where the Young People Hang Out. Of course the demographic at MySpace, and on every network, continues to shift, and is interpreted differently from study to study.

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McLuhan, Socrates and Edith Wharton On Social Media

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MySpace, once thought to be the domain of teenagers, and Facebook, initially established as a network for high school and university students, both have large numbers of users in the age 45 to 65 bracket, but age continues to be a barrier to both social network and general Internet use.