Add unemployment to the impact of Facebook in healthcare: nurse is fired in Detroit

Hospital fires a nurse over Facebook comments Oakwood Hospital let a nurse go for posting remarks about a suspected cop-killer in her care. Per the dismissal: “As healthcare providers, we have a legal and ethical responsibility to protect patient privacy and we are bound by HIPAA rules and regulations to ensure that we do so. All of our...

The True Cost of Friendship? 1/10th of a Hamburger. Burger King gets jettisoned from Facebook.

Frequent guests know of my love for all things Facebook and winsome burger commercials, but I never thought the two would meet so well. The NY Times reports today about the lose a friend, gain a whopper campaign: While many trivial actions do prompt Facebook to post an alert to all your friends… striking someone off your list simply is not...

Really, who’s on Facebook? New Research on the aging up of our favorite social site.

I’m convinced that all media will soon be social — that is, nearly all content we consume will be recommended to us rather than programmed at us. Stay tuned for more on that. But I was fascinated by Facebook’s new ad system and the data I was able to find. For example, you can now target ads based on gender, location, and...