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Study: Why Young People Are Sick Of Facebook

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“Everyone’s saying Facebook’s dead.” A new study explores teens’ strained relationship with the largest social network.

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A joint study out today on Teens, Social Media, and Privacy by the Pew Research Center and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society confirms what anecdotal evidence has suggested for some time now: that Facebook is falling out of favor with teenagers.

While the study, which surveyed 156 teens ages 11-19, covers a wide range of issues surrounding privacy and teen internet use, the clearest narrative thread in the focus groups is one that’s troubling for the world's largest social network. According to the study:

In focus groups, many teens expressed waning enthusiasm for Facebook. They dislike the increasing number of adults on the site, get annoyed when their Facebook friends share inane details, and are drained by the “drama” that they described as happening frequently on the site. The stress of needing to manage their reputation on Facebook also contributes to the lack of enthusiasm. Nevertheless, the site is still where a large amount of socializing takes place, and teens feel they need to stay on Facebook in order to not miss out.

Users of sites other than Facebook express greater enthusiasm for their choice.
Those teens who used sites like Twitter and Instagram reported feeling like they could better express themselves on these platforms, where they felt freed from the social expectations and constraints of Facebook. Some teens may migrate their activity and attention to other sites to escape the drama and pressures they find on Facebook, although most still remain active on Facebook as well.

Most telling, though, are the quotes from the teens themselves, which indicate not only fatigue, but the very real concern that the Facebook has simply become another exhausting extension of teens' everyday lives.

For many, Facebook's unlimited ability to post pictures, videos, text, and chat led to too much “drama.”

For many, Facebook's unlimited ability to post pictures, videos, text, and chat led to too much "drama."

Via: pewinternet.org

Others cited concerns that the network so closely mirrored their offline world that they no longer felt “free” on the site.

Others cited concerns that the network so closely mirrored their offline world that they no longer felt "free" on the site.

Via: pewinternet.org

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WTF Did I Just Watch?: Strangling A Robotic Dinosaur To See If People Empathize With Robot Pain

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Author: Markus Smith

This is the video shown to participants in a study conducted by the University of Duisburg-Essen to determine if humans feel empathy towards tortured robots. Basically it’s some guy hanging and beating a Pleo robotic dinosaur for a minute straight. The test is obviously flawed because I hate robots with all my coal-black heart but I still don’t want to see a DINOSAUR getting tortured. A humanoid robot? A humanoid robot I’d pay to take a swing at with a crowbar. Also, not to brag or anything, but I once drop-kicked a friend’s Roomba off his balcony. Didn’t even hurt my foot. He said he was going to make me buy him a new one but I just severed the friendship to save myself the $ $ .

Hit the jump for the sickest fetish video you’ll see all day.

People Are So Clever: A LEGO Swiss Army Knife Model

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Author: Tiffany Shoman

This is the LEGO Swiss Army Knife built by LEGO CUUSO user Robiwan. That’s a pretty clever design. Still, you should never, under any circumstances, bring a plastic knife to a ninja sword fight. I know you might fancy yourself some kind of MacGyver that doesn’t need anything but a Swiss Army knife to defeat a group of ninjas, but you’re wrong. You’re gonna get both your arms cut off. Then wake up and be thankful it was just a dream. Then wake up from that dream in the hospital with no arms.

Thanks to bryce, who got mega bummed after losing the toothpick and tweezers from his Swiss Army knife.

What People Are Actually Doing On The Internet In 2013

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Author: jos

The numbers may surprise you.

Via: liewcf.com

Yesterday Facebook announced that 1.1 billion people use the site every month. But where do others stand? The results are surprising.

For all of Instagram’s popularity, Snapchat users upload 110 million more photos per day. Yahoo Mail is more popular than Twitter. And even MySpace is as popular as Spotify.

To get sense of what the internet actually looks like in 2013, we've compiled a list of some of the biggest social media sites and apps. These are official numbers, which means some may be inflated a bit — Google+ counts users in a very generous way, for example. But overall they're a pretty good indication of just how people spend time on the internet now.

Facebook – 1.1 Billion

Facebook - 1.1 Billion

YouTube – 1 Billion

YouTube - 1 Billion

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You Can Tag People In Instagram Photos Now

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Author: Jamie Colby

Look familiar? How Instagram is slowly becoming a Facebook app.

The Facebookification of Instagram continues apace. According to Instagram:

When you upload a photo to Instagram, you’re now able to add people as easily as you add hashtags. Only you can add people to your photos, so you have control over the images you share. And it doesn't stop at people—you can add any account on Instagram, whether it's your best friend, favorite coffee shop or even that adorable dog you follow.

There will now be a Photos of You section on your profile.

That they're giving this a brand — Photos of You — is important. I suspect they know that if a brand name doesn't catch on, people will think of it and refer to it as what it most obviously is: Facebook tagging.

Adafruit’s Limor Fried Wants To Make People Comfortable With Their Electronics, Inside And Out

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Author: Jon Daniels

Recently, consumer electronics have tended to be more about closing things down then opening them up, but New York-based Adafruit is working to help reverse that trend, and to make it so that people aren’t afraid of what’s inside their devices, and instead become more comfortable with electronics components and the concepts behind how gadgets actually work. Adafruit founder and CEO Limor Fried was on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY today, and talked about how her company is going about achieving that goal.

The mission helps the company generate revenue, by priming an audience early on to become buyers of the components, DIY kits and open-source devices Adafruit sells through its online store. The key is to start young, Fried says, and to take advantage of urges that children already have around exploring their environment and the things around them.

“At a certain age, they just want to be comfortable with it, and everyone here probably liked to take stuff apart,” he said. “That’s how we learn, we take stuff apart and then we learn from them. That’s how software works, too.” With software, we pull apart the code to find out how it’s put together, she said, and we should be doing the same thing with hardware.

“We open the box,” she said, referring to our instincts when young. “The gadgets you have now, tablets and smartphones, theyr’e not easy to open anymore, so we provide that.” The idea is to make sure that if the need to break something down and repair it does arise, we aren’t afraid of it, and we don’t feel like we need eight years of specific education just to replace a broken capacitor.

Adafruit recently launched a video series for children called Circuit Playground to help familiarize them with electronics at a very early age. The company also put out a coloring book for electronics, which you can print out and use under a creative commons license. This is designed less to provide a rigorous early-age electrical engineering education regimen, and more to help get kids comfortable with terms, designs and shapes early on so that they’ll find it easier to pursue that kind of formal training later on. Basically, it’s about planting the seed for a generation of makers to come.

Asked about Adafruit’s identity, and whether it’s an educational organization or a business, Fried said her company is an ‘educational, tutorial company” that then has essentially a gift shop at the end. The model works in the same way that art supply stores functions; you could technically make your own paint, she says, but most people don’t because it’s easier to buy. Budding electronics hobbyists can likewise build their own PCBs, but they instead turn to supply stores and pre-fab components like those supplied by Adafruit. But in the end, the emphasis is on education and open source.

Fried envisions a world where people treat hardware the same way they do software, by mostly leveraging open source tools to quickly start up their own companies. But that change represents a major shift that will require fundamental changes in how we think about hardware, and Adafruit is trying to bring that about starting as early in our educational lives as possible.

Walden: Will robots replace people in work?

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Author: Tyler Evans

Walden: Will robots replace people in work?
n the 2012 movie “Robot and Frank,” set sometime in the future, a robot is purchased to provide personal care for an elderly – and mentally deteriorating – former jewel thief (Frank). When Frank learns the robot doesn't distinguish between legal and …
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Iron Man Battles Robots in Latest Rise of Technovore Clip
Crave Online posted a new English clip for Marvel and MADHOUSE 's Iron Man: Rise of Technovore feature on Monday. In the clip, Iron Man takes on a group of Nick Fury's armed robots. Marvel describes the feature as a confrontation between Iron Man and …
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Helical Robotics Debuts Wireless Turbine-Climbing Robots
Last year, GE partnered up with the US-based International Climbing Machines to develop a robot that can scale the wind turbine and along the blades themselves. Now, Oregon, Wisconsin-based Helical Robotics if offering up its own improvement on this …
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Two People, One Car, Four DUI’s: Australian Couple Both Charged With Drunk Driving Twice In One Day

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Author: Alexander McQueen

A couple in Australia managed to score four drunk driving charges in one day after repeatedly switching drivers after one of them would get pulled over and breathalized. Problem solving: they’re not very good at it. Terrifying pedestrians, yes.

Dunwich police conducted a road side breath test on a female driver in Snapper Street, Point Lookout about 1pm.

The 27-year-old recorded a reading of .126 per cent and was charged with drink driving.

A short time later police stopped the same car which was now being driven by the passenger, a 34-year-old man from Redbank Plains.

He recorded a breath test reading of .110 per cent and was also charged with drink driving.

The couple were released but shortly afterwards the man was observed by police in Point Lookout driving the vehicle again.

The man again recorded a positive breath test and was charged with drink driving as well as driving while suspended.

Incredibly the couple returned to their vehicle and the woman again got behind the wheel.

They were again stopped by police and the woman was n charged with drink driving and driving while suspended.

Wow, two drunk driving charges apiece in one day, that…probably shouldn’t even be possible. After the first one authorities should have dropped them off in the desert so they have to walk back to town and sober up. Or get lost, walk the wrong way for 12 miles, then die of dehydration or an animal attack. Just like in the movies.

Thanks to Mike L, who agrees a taxi might have been a good idea. Or jetpacks.

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Google Glass App Identifies People By Clothes, Hints At Tech That Could Counter Face Blindness

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Author: Angela Chin

That problem where you ’ re meeting someone for the first time, maybe to get something you purchased through Craigslist? Google Glass could assist with that. A brand-new app made for Google ’ s upcoming smart-mounted pc will be able to identify individuals based upon what they ’ re putting on. The alleged InSight project(through 9to5Google) is funded in part by Google and established by College of South Caroline and Duke College analysts, and uses a smartphone app to establish a clothing-based digital fingerprint to help identify complete strangers.

The app would let individuals like sellers on Craigslist, or members of online dating websites, or anybody meeting someone for the first time produce a profile of themselves utilizing their smartphone camera, and shots from numerous angles. Understanding would then reconstruct a virtual profile of that individual based on exactly what they ’ re putting on, which could then be used by Google Glass to make a favorable ID when that individual comes within range of its visual sensors. It ’ s very sci-fi, it ’ s very cool, and finest of all, it ’ s very precise: in tests up until now the analysts behind the job have actually had the ability to get a favorable match 93 percent of the time.

The system uses garments due to the fact that it offers more aesthetic signals at a distance to assist with identification, as well as since it keeps a user ’ s identity more or less private, since all they have to do is change clothing in order to not be determined by the same individual ’ s Google Glass application in the future. However it can be fine-tuned to assist with prosopagnosia, otherwise referred to as face blindness, and that ’ s where Google Glass ’ s therapeutic potential really begins to emerge.

Prosopagnosia might have an effect on up to 2.5 percent of the world ’ s population to varying degrees, according to a recent study, so while unusual a system that fixes it might still have a considerable effect. Idea, or modern technology like it, might help by determining individuals based on their facial characteristics and trying to keep a saved data source of individuals understand to the Google Glass individual, so that they can ‘ acknowledge ’ deals with thanks to info offered with their heads up screen.

The same kind of tech might likewise help with aesthetic agnosia, a disorder causing by strokes that could render a patient incapable of identifying daily items. And for more quotidian uses, it could possibly work in tandem with language learning software to help students identify the globe around them in their target tongue.

Google Glass might not be something customers could buy quite yet, however it ’ s currently showing that it could have lots of applications past just working as an extension of your smartphone.

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Google Glass App Identifies People By Clothes, Hints At Tech That Could Counter Face Blindness

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Author: Angela Chin

That problem where you’re meeting someone for the first time, maybe to pick up something you bought through Craigslist? Google Glass can help with that. A new app designed for Google’s upcoming smart-mounted computer will be able to identify people based on what they’re wearing. The so-called InSight project (via 9to5Google) is funded in part by Google and developed by University of South Caroline and Duke University researchers, and uses a smartphone app to develop a clothing-based digital fingerprint to help identify strangers.

The app would let users like sellers on Craigslist, or members of online dating sites, or anyone meeting someone for the first time create a profile of themselves using their smartphone camera, and shots from various angles. InSight would then piece together a virtual profile of that person based on what they’re wearing, which could then be used by Google Glass to make a positive ID when that person comes within range of its visual sensors. It’s very sci-fi, it’s very cool, and best of all, it’s very accurate: in tests so far the researchers behind the project have been able to get a positive match 93 percent of the time.

The system uses clothes because it provides more visual signals at a distance to help with identification, and also because it keeps a user’s identity more or less private, since all they have to do is change clothes in order to not be identified by the same person’s Google Glass application in the future. But it could be refined to help with prosopagnosia, otherwise known as face blindness, and that’s where Google Glass’s therapeutic potential really starts to become apparent.

Prosopagnosia may affect up to 2.5 percent of the world’s population to varying degrees, according to a recent study, so while rare a system that corrects it could still have a significant impact. InSight, or technology like it, could help by identifying people based on their facial characteristics and keeping a stored database of people know to the Google Glass wearer, so that they can ‘recognize’ faces thanks to information provided through their heads up display.

The same kind of tech could also help with visual agnosia, a disorder resulting from strokes that can render a patient incapable of identifying everyday objects. And for more quotidian uses, it could work in tandem with language learning software to help learners identify the world around them in their target tongue.

Google Glass may not be something consumers can buy quite yet, but it’s already showing that it could have plenty of applications beyond just acting as an extension of your smartphone.

Posts Tagged ‘People’

Study: Why Young People Are Sick Of Facebook

For many, Facebook's unlimited ability to post pictures, videos, text, and chat led to too much “drama.”

Others cited concerns that the network so closely mirrored their offline world that they no longer felt “free” on the site.

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