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More on Social Media and Language Skills

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The language of emoticons and SMS (text message) abbreviations might be appropriate for some friends, in some settings, but not for certain contacts and interactions in the academic and career worlds. Tags: Language Social Media Canadian Press descriptive emoticons grammar language prescriptive SMS students.

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

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Location-based services — applications that “know” where you are and can use that information to connect you with people, places and things — are one of the hot new classes of social media applications. Foursquare is available for iPhone and Android , and can also be managed via SMS. This post was updated 11/11/09.

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Students Failing English Due to Twitter, Facebook

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And academicians are, in part, blaming social networking. And even if the social media gurus tell you the old rules have been thrown out, and communications has gone informal, and you should be yourself, someone apparently forgot to send that memo to our universities and corporations. Tags: Social Media.

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