Episode 17: Planes, Tribunes, and Kids Stumbling into Social Media

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This week JD was 36,000 miles above the earth and unable to join us live, but the rest of us gathered together and discussed in great detail our thoughts on when kids should be using social media and when they should, the new stumble upon, twitter lists, and much much more.  We were then graced by the presence of our lovely guest Amanda Maurer from the Chicago Tribune who had a lot to say about how her paper uses social media.

This Weeks Topics

How Young Is Too Young? Social Media Kid’s

According to two studies conducted by Pew Internet Research, 38%, that’s 700 of 935 teens, between the ages of 12-14 said they had an online profile. 61%, between the ages of 12-17 said they used a Social Networking site to send messages to their friends and 42% do so every single day. This data was taken in 2006, so you can imagine that this has grown immensely with game apps such as Farmville. Even if Facebook and other sites require you to be over the age of 13, they truly do not have a way to verify. Do we really want our kids to go from Pedialyte to a Social Media-Lite? To us within Social Media as an adult, this might sound like a great idea, and it might very well be for their future, at the same time, remember yourself as a kid, and how much you would have wanted Social Media integrated into your childhood, or in your kid’s childhood. How young is too young?
[via cnn]

The New StumbleUpon Is It Better?

StumbleUpon has completely updated their interface, still keeping features from the old, but adding frequently requested features such as Search Your Favorites and others. The NEW Stumbleupon is supposed to be more user friendly by making it a better Stumbler’s experience with simplicity. Their goal is to make it “simple, searchable and social”, which seems to be a smart step forward since their ranking is currently #290 Alexa Traffic Ranking site, only 177 positions behind Digg, their major competitor. They have also updated their Firefox extension, making it smaller with more features and more flexible. StumbleUpon’s on-site navigation got a make over too with seeing how many people are viewing your content. What do you think?
[via igorhelpsyousucceed, stumbleupon & readwriteweb]

Facebook 1 Spam King 0

The latest judgment is believed to represent the second largest anti-spam action. Facebook fought against a spammer who commited14 million violations of the U.S. and Canada spam act, FB claims that a Mr. Wallace had been gaining access to users’ accounts and sending unsolicited mass emails, directing them to other websites that paid him for each visit. When Facebook found out, they sued him and won $711 million dollars in damages. Would be nice if the folks he spammed got to see a chunk of that change, however, Facebook most likely won’t see it either, but they aren’t fretting, in fact they are hoping that this will act more so as a deterrent to other like minded individuals. Yay Facebook! This was not the first for Wallace either, in May 2008; MySpace filed a similar suit against him and was awarded $230 million dollars judgment against him and his partner Walter Rines over junk messages sent to its users. They most likely didn’t see their money either; however, this time around it looks like Mr.Wallace may be looking at some jail time.
[via telegraph]

YouTube Cashes in on One-Billion Weekly Views (And They’re All Urgo)

On YouTube there are two main types of videos, ones with ads and ones without. YouTube only adds ads to videos of what they call partners which either media entities such as ABC, or CBS videos which are “claimed” by media companies or users who have filled out contracts agreeing not to post copywritten material. As of this week, YouTube is now getting one billion weekly “billable” views out of their 1 billion per day. 7 billion per week.
[via telegraph]

Seesmic is first to Integrate Twitter Lists

This week Seesmic became the first twitter client to integrate the new twitter lists feature. Hopefully others will follow.
[via thenextweb]

As of November 1st, 6.5 Million Twitter Lists Created

Twitter lists are all the rage lately with over 6.5 million of them being created. Some of our favorite functions of them are using them to group together a local demographic and see how other people categorize us.
[via thenextweb]

Tweet Radio

Not really a story, but this is a cool site we came across this week that emulates scanning through a radio looking for stations, but the stations are tweets. When it finds one based on a keyword it reads it out loud.
[via tweetrad.io]

Guest: Amanda Maurer From the Chicago Tribune
Follow Amanda On Twitter: @acmaurer

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