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Friday, November 30, 2012

Midtown Home Depot hosting free social media photo booth event

Customers can have their holiday photo taken Saturday and Sunday at the Midtown Place shopping center store and instantly share it with friends.

The Home Depot in Midtown would like to help its customers celebrate the holidays by hosting a free social media photo booth event this weekend. Customers shopping in the store can stop by the booth and snap a quick photo to show off their Christmas tree, holiday lights or everyday do-it-yourself purchases. The photo booth allows customers to upload unique holiday photos to their Facebook wall or Twitter account, or email and text the photo to friends and family instantly. Social photo sharing is one of the hottest trends in social media, and one of the most commonly used ways Facebookers, Twitter users, smartphone owners and Instagram fans communicate with each other. Instagram officials recently confirmed that they broke a record with 10…

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Over-Sharing Parents, Beware

Sites mock parents who share too much information about their kids on Facebook.

It's super exciting that your little toddler piddled in the potty for the first time and you want to share photographic evidence of the moment with all of your friends on Facebook. Well, you might want to reconsider before you hit the "share" button.  There are a slew of websites these days dedicated to informing over-sharing parents that their childless friends are over reading about their kid's crap, literally. Take for instance, the blog ST*U, Parents, a submission-based "public service" blog that pokes fun at parents whose Facebook statuses have been hijacked with inane updates about their children. The author of the site, known simply as "B," created the blog in 2009 in response to annoying parental over-share posts that popped up in …

Racer X

11:25 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012

6'4" 190lbs. No fat here. I spend 15 minutes a day on Patch. Moderation is the key to everything, especially Facebook. Now, go have yourselves some ice cream and check to see if anybody liked your latest pictures before you turn in :-)   more ›

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