Check out a video on the Social Media Revolution.
Interesting statistics cited by the video:

Social Media has overtaken pornography as the #1 activity on the Web
1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. met via social media
If Facebook were a country, it would be the 3rd largest
The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old [...]

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The other day, I started seeing status updates of colors come across the News Feed in Facebook referring to the bra people were wearing themselves. It quickly devolved to guys messing around and posting things like “diamond studded”. Not only was it TMI (did my professional colleagues [...]

As more and more of the people I know and the people they know are having kids, I’ve seen more photos popping up on Facebook of newborns and childhood moments. And even though some kids don’t even know how to type, they already have Facebook profiles! It seems the parents are registering their [...]

When people post photos or other content on Facebook, chances are they’re not thinking about what Facebook can do with them. People are freaking about it now, though (again). The reality is that much of this stuff isn’t news; Facebook has always claimed rights to your photos and content.
Here’s Facebook’s recent [...]

Joining the evil forces of the RIAA and MPAA , Hasbro has sued the makers of Scrabulous convincing them to pull their app from Facebook by legal bullying. … In the meantime, according to gawker.com , it seems that you can still play it at their website … not sure how long that will last before Hasbro squeezes them there, too.

I got a message on my Facebook wall today. It read (links replaced):

what up Jen?
get the entrie billboard top100 for your cell from [RINGTONE SITE]
i think that Bre is the owner and cool as hell

Slightly confused, I did some digging around and it looks like it was wall spam. Lovely. Another example [...]

I was invited to sit in on the first ever college class on Facebook: Creating Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook taught by Dr. BJ Fogg from Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab and Dave McClure of 500 Hats. With over 100 people registered for the new course, even a new location change [...]

Last month, I attended the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) Fall Focus Session titled Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World. (Educause is “a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.” Educause is also the sole registrar for .edu domains.)
The focus [...]

This past week, I received a Facebook message from someone looking to hire software engineers for a startup. The person noticed I’m in computing and was hoping that I would have a referral in my network. The incentive… $10k!
I’ve heard that startups in the Valley have been really concerned with hiring the best [...]

I first heard about Facebook Apps at the first NewTeeVee Pier Screening (two months ago). I had run into a tech reporter I knew from the San Jose Mercury News. She filled me in about the major Facebook announcement during the keynote from that night’s event dubbed f8, where CEO and Founder Mark [...]