Social Media Addiction: Are You At Risk?

Facebook and social media have been blamed for a lot of ills of late — divorce, teens run wild and even asthma attacks. Good thing YourTango is out with a PSA warning us all about the hazards of social media addiction. Watch:

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Seth Priebatsch: Building the game layer on top of the world

By now, we're used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web -- building a "social layer" on top of the real world. At TEDxBoston, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer in progress: the "game layer," a pervasive net of behavior-steering game dynamics that will reshape education and commerce.

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Blogging is All

In this program by the University of Maryland at College Park, Lee Thornton, professor of journalism at the University of Maryland, sits down with Robert Cox, founder and president of the Media Bloggers Association, in a discussion about the phenomenon that is blogging and its role in todays society.

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Ideas About Spreading Ideas

Bruno Giussani, the European Director of TED, shares TED vision for spreading ideas by making talks accessible, setting up spaces for dialog and calling out to the TED community to extend the effort via self-organized events.

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