TweetGuest blog by Maria Hilden, Business Development Manager with a background in communications and public relations. She blogs at mariahilden.blogspot.com.
Why do people of highly diverse backgrounds connect online? The notion of ‘tribe’ is the predominant way to convey what social connectivity online is all about. It cannot stand alone, however. Indeed, a preoccupation with online [...]

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TweetA while back I wrote the first post about digital identity ‘Digital identity – We Create Ourselves‘. It was about how everyone from  ‘normal’ to hardcore tech and internet people create themselves online. This support their identity – not only online but it even empowers their offline identity, some without even thinking about it.
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TweetIn a recent post, I wrote that two of the most essential aspects of social media for me, are closely related: human beings or people on the one hand and identity on the other. They might even be the same. The post was about the human aspect, this one is about identity!
The homepage at mindjumpers.com, [...]

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TweetInstead of suffering the pain of a real suicide, you can kill your virtual self in just five pain-free steps, and resurrection is possible with a simple log in to Facebook.
A new (anti) social network offers Facebook users to commit virtual suicide or seppukoo – as they call it. Seppukoo means ‘stomach-cutting’ and stems from [...]

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