Tag: facebook


My Social Verbs

Posted on July 26th, by Cathy Wang in Social Media, web. No Comments

It seems that these days people are actively packing up their facebook account over to google+. Different reasons aside, google+ is making a huge splash in the social scene.

One thing that I have noticed is from my personal experience, of how I deal with my online social interaction.

I have always used my on social verbs based on the actual social interaction I perform with these people.. on twitter and google.

Connect
Converse
Learn
Read
Inspire

and other sub circles/groups for specific topics such as #ux and location specific. To me, this makes much more sense, especially that I use these social tools to share and to receive information.

I have always found the default social verbs to be awkward…

Follow

when someone follows you on twitter, you don’t necessary have to follow back. The word “follow” does not commit to such deep relationships. What if the social verb on … Read More »


Facebook Search and Trusted Information

Posted on August 11th, by Cathy Wang in Social Media, Social Science, web. No Comments

Facebook has just announced its new search ability.

What does this mean to the end-users