https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/twitter/ Recent content in Twitter on A Geek's Life Hugo en Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:37:58 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2009/11/14/rethinking-social-networks/ Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:37:58 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2009/11/14/rethinking-social-networks/ <p>Perhaps, this is definitive proof that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network">Social Networks</a> like  <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://www.twitter.com/">Twitter</a> can be good for you after all. First one bloke has his <a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_facebook-saves-ny-robbery-suspect-from-25-year-jail-term_1311213">alibi corroborated by a Facebook timestamp</a> (possibly saving him from up to 25 years in jail), then an <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/6484057/Suicidal-boy-saved-by-Facebook-message.html">attempted suicide was averted</a> and  <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chrisbevan/2009/11/freddy_adu_footballs_forgotten.html">Freddy Adu is finding life on the bench less stressful thanks to support from his peers</a> via Twitter.</p> <p>What say you? What is the most unconventional use you have put Social Networks to?</p>