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...When Facebook users in Argentina logged on to the social network Wednesday, they may have noticed that something had disappeared - their friends' profile pictures went missing...
...unlike previous Facebook mishaps, such as the recent spamming of private messages to users in America, these profile updates were no mistake. Tens of thousands of Facebook users in the South American nation took down their pictures to commemorate the estimated 30,000 people who were disappeared during the country's Dirty War. (Watch a video about celebrity doppelganger week on Facebook...
...have the Twittercooler. Facebook, Twitter et al., it turns out, are perfect for watching big events in a virtual living room of dozens - or thousands - of your closest fellow couch potatoes...
Ever since people started buying 56K modems, we've seen goofy attempts at TV-Internet convergence, from play-at-home websites for game shows to Internet-shopping tie-ins. But the kind of convergence people really want is dishing about Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin's duologue with their Facebook friends. It's doubtful people tuned in by the millions to see the Oscars' interpretative-dance number, in which performers did the robot to the score of Up. Or maybe they did, but to make fun of it together. (In a way, social media are better for bad TV than...
...call things like Facebook social media, but contrary to its image, TV is also inherently social, at least when it comes to big games, big galas or American Idol finales. People throw parties around it; they watch it to be able to talk to other people about it. Social media enhance rather than replace events like the Oscars and - important when DVRs let people record shows and skip the ads - make watching them in real time worthwhile so people can be in on the conversation. Because as much as we like to watch, we like to talk...