Donghee Yvette Wohn
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College Social Network Sites; not just retaining students, but getting them engaged
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Ewhaian.com, a social network site I co-founded with my friends for students of Ewha Women’s University in South Korea. I’m writing this post because I think I have a lot of insights for schools or companies planning to develop social network sites for colleges. For example, the Gates … Continue reading
Disney acquired Togetherville: Security concerns and how children use social network sites
Disney just acquired Togetherville, a social network site for kids that is linked with Facebook. If the parents have a Facebook account, they can create a Togetherville account for their kid. It is interesting that they used Facebook as an authentication measure because Facebook technically does not have any formal means of adult authentication. Hopefully, … Continue reading
Parenting on Facebook: Communicating or Moderating?
I don’t have children yet, so I don’t know about parenting, or what it means to be “Friends” with my children on Facebook. However, I have parents on Facebook and I know enough people on Facebook who are a child, or parent, or both. I also conducted interviews earlier this year with adult Facebook users … Continue reading
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