August 30, 2010
How to be a Social Medea and give “friends” the axe Credit must go to Facebook for turning “friend” into a verb, as in “Friend me on Facebook,” or perhaps “Go friend yourself,” should one choose to decline the invitation. When it became appended with the antonymic prefix “un-,” the new verb took its place [...]
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August 14, 2010
Online community gets spin from Fox to Anonymous For some, like Fox News, the online community known as “4chan” is a terrorist training camp. For others, including a growing cadre of Sonoma County teens—particularly those who are male, live with their parents and are practiced in navigating the backwaters of the web—4chan is a graffiti-tagged [...]
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