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The Dark Side of Viral Content

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Black to beat Bieber for YouTube’s most hated… via Know Your Meme. Tween sensation Rebecca Black will see her parent-financed video “ Friday &# beat Justin Bieber’s “ Baby &# for most disliked YouTube video within the next few days, if not hours, reports ReadWriteWeb. This is your brain on Rebecca Black.

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Protecting Children from Social Media

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This graphic by Forrester Research, refers to the types of people that hang out in communities and what they do in those communities. Create video on YouTube. Comment on YouTube. Though the above graphic refers to adults, children are not too far off from this model. They can: Text with their phone. Online Chat via AIM.

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If You Could Use Only One Social Media Solution, Which Would It Be?

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A Ning Like community or Forum solution. Tags: Social Networks Facebook YouTube Linkedin Twitter social media marc meyer. What is going to give them the biggest return, the biggest impact? You can only choose one. Let’s short list 11 high level social media solutions and tools right now. Social Bookmarking. Podcasting.

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The Problem with the Social Web

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In the larger picture of the social web though-there is Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube and blogs. “Come join our community and learn more about us&#. “View our Youtube videos and share them&#. But we weren’t competing for the same eyeballs and ears, so it didn’t matter.

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Does Transparency Need a Filter?

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If we thought millennials shared too much, what are we to think of the YouTube generation or as they might be called, Gen C? Better yet, what are we to think of anyone with zero filter nowadays? A product of the times? Good for them, they’re just being transparent?

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What or Who will Continue to Shape our Social Media World?

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Video -The number of videos viewed on YouTube every day is 2 billion. The power of community is built into every facet, nook and cranny of the entertainment industry. With that being said, I started to think of who or what will continue to astound me in regards to pushing the social media envelope.