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Be careful what you post on Facebook or Pinterest — those pictures of you drunk at a club last weekend may cost you more than just your dignity. A recent survey by On Device Research found that 1 in 10 people between the ages of 16 and 34 have lost job opportunities because of posts they made or posts made about them on social [...]

You can connect with students from Howard University’s Department of Theatre Arts to students from Tuskegee University’s Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences–all within the click of a button. The ‘follow’ button on social media network Twitter that is. Here’s what some people tweeted this past week on students graduating from HBCUs Nothing is more motivating than going to a graduation filled with nothing but young [...]

Check out Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s Gracie Bonds piece about how a Clark Atlanta graduate used social media to leverage his career. His senior year at Clark Atlanta University was quickly approaching, and Kareem Taylor was starting to worry about his future. Would he be able to land a job as a voice actor or would he end up back home with [...]

Late to a previous class, I found myself right on colored folk time arriving to my next ‘get-together’: 2:00 o’clock Geology. Hooray. Our “professor” is short in height, black/African, and…reserved in clothing, to say the least. Meanwhile, some of my fellow colleagues and I prepared to enjoy class with our usual routine. I counted 5 or so cellphones (thumbs inching [...]

“Can I offer you a drink?” A co-worker asked this question and I laughed during another experience of what is adequately described as  “the thirst.” “Thirsty” or “thirst” can be defined as a male or female that portrays a certain level of desperation to get what they want. Also, most commonly, it is their way to “do the most” in [...]

Ever wondered what exactly is too much? Well, if you ever find yourself on Twitter, then more than likely this question will come up. The cautionary tale of Yuri Wright speaks on how people put too much information to be shared on social networks. Yuri Wright, a senior cornerback at Don Bosco Prepatory School, was expelled for his explicit tweets. From sexually tweets about health [...]

Are you one of those people who make it a point to tweet more than 100 times a day? Do you know anyone who does? Society is being formulated by new technology which leads to making applications to put it in use. Social Networking is one application to keep youth, even adults, constantly wanting more. But are these networks making [...]

Earlier this week, a 14-year-old African-American girl by the name of Amber Cole was recorded performing oral sex for her boyfriend outside of their school grounds. Amber was supposedly recorded by friends of the boyfriend and almost immediately afterward, the video was uploaded onto the Internet for the world to see. Since the incident, Amber has been ridiculed for her [...]