social networking

Social Networks

Do you like to poke? Or do you prefer to retweet? Or maybe just comment? (or whatever they do on myspace these days.....who even knows?)
Well whichever one you prefer, we bet ya you don't know how your favourite social networking website came about. So listen here, and we'll give you the full rundown of Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace and how they came to be...... 

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Sharing online: where does it go?

Have you ever stopped to consider where that status update, photo or video might go after you've put in on Facebook, Twitter or other social networking sites?

On Panorama we took a look at the consequences of sharing too much. You might pay the price later on when applying for jobs or houses in the near future. 

 

Also, we find out how advertising are targeting what they are selling us by working with Facebook to understand what we might want to buy.

 

Emma Buckley Lennox, Nat Tencic and Esther Ooi report. 

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