Effective Social Media For The 55 or Better Crowd
June 11, 2010 in Healthy Aging by futureofaging
Barbara Christner from Redstone Highlands | Image copyright Eric Schmadel of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
When many people think about social media today, they may think about teenagers sharing photos with their Facebook “friends” or restaurants using Twitter to promote their business with coupons and giveaways.
There are many ways to use social media, but how can retirement communities use this new form…
A new AARP report examines social media and technology use among adults over the age of 50. Researchers found that 40% of adults age 50 and over “consider themselves extremely (17%) or very (23%) comfortable using the Internet,” and that the majority access the Internet from a desktop computer (57%). About 26 percent use a laptop (26%) to surf the Web, while 4 percent use smartphones/blackberries.
As for social…
A few of us here at AAHSA recently started using Foursquare, a location-based social networking tool, on a regular basis. It makes it easy for users to share, well, their locations by “checking in” at various venues (apps are available for Blackberry, iPhone and Android).
For those with busy schedules, it can be hard to keep track of what friends are doing. I find Foursquare helps. Here’s an…
What happens when you take 200 journalism students and cut them off from the Internet for 24 hours?
It’s something I might call “information anxiety,” because the students expressed a great deal of anxiety in the narratives they provided the researchers after the experiment was over (But I would be quick to add, I’d never consider this a ‘disorder’ — just a simple, predictable result of removing…
A new study out suggests that when we are looking through our friends’ updates, photos, etc. on Facebook, we show greater physiological evidence of pleasantness (as measured through facial muscle EMG responses). Why would we express more pleasantness when looking at specific information regarding one of our “friends” on Facebook?
The researchers divided Facebook behaviors into four different categories, but found that most people on Facebook…