Teens are sharing more personal information on their profiles than in the past. They choose private settings for Facebook, but share with large networks of friends. 60% of teen Facebook users keep their profiles private.
Brand spanking new report out today on teens and their digital lives. Teen twitter use has grown substantially; 24% of teens use twitter, up from 16% in 2011. But Facebook is still most popular. This infographic says it all, but stop by the report for the nitty gritty. http://pewrsr.ch/191zI4V
One of the greatest threats we face is, simply put, bullshit. We are drowning it. We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media’s imitation of human connection; in legalese and corporate double-speak. It infects every facet of public life, corrupting our discourse, wrecking our trust in major institutions, lowering our standards for the truth, making it harder to achieve anything.
Message to a Graduate
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It’s raining hard today.
The day is more like night,
the spring is more like fall,
and in the yard a driving wind lays waste
to the little tree that, seeming not to, stands
steady and firm; it seems among the plants
like a too-green adolescent grown too tall.
You watch it. It may be
your pity stirs for all of those white flowers
the north wind strips from it; and they are fruit,
sweet preserves we set
aside for winter, those fallen flowers spread
across the grass. And your vast maternity
aches for them, all.—Umberto Saba, “The Little Tree”
Photography Credit Mark Steinmetz
Share this if you agree: It’s time to fix our broken immigration system. http://wh.gov/zWn7
A little weary at the end of a long week? Our Dictionaries team consulted OUP’s Historical Thesaurus for synonyms to help explain your feelings.
Happy World Press Freedom Day!
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Infographic using our data on internet and libraries.
See the full size infographic here.
National Poetry Month and Cherry Blossoms
Celebrate the last week of National Poetry Month with cherry blossoms! - Caroline (Carrie) Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
Image Source: The Cherry Tree, Berthe Morisot, 1841-1895
In Your Absence
By Judith Harris
Not yet summer,
but unseasonable heat
pries open the cherry tree.
It stands there stupefied,
in its sham, pink frills,
dense with early blooming.
To read the rest of the poem, visit The Poetry Foundation at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/181361
FULL INFOGRAPHIC of our latest Internet report: Civic Engagement in the Digital Age.
The well-educated and the well-off are more likely than others to participate in civic life online – just as those groups have always been more likely to be active in politics and community affairs offline.
