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As a kid I loved Lego (of course I still do), yet I never had a lot of it. Back then, I tried to create what I could with the limited resources I had. But imagination goes a long way, and before you knew it, I created a whole space station with a few space crafts hovering around it. Sure, they didn' ...

Facebook Security: Simple Guide To Staying Safe [Infographic]

As social media gets ever more crowded and hackers and crackers are lurking around in pretty much every corner, you should keep up with safety measures in order to keep your account clean from malware and evil doers. It's not easy I know, but with a few recommendations, you will find that it's not a ...

Geek

4 Tips For Speed Reading Long Blog Posts

I remember back in the days when high profile Digg users were known for consuming more information each day than the rest of us combined. Many times people would refer to them as ruthless information hunters who would speed read through hundreds of posts each day searching for the content they crave ...

For Wine Loving Geeks: My Drunk Kitchen

This is a big week for wine lovers on Twitter, so when I saw this little video, I knew I had to share it with you. If you are unfamiliar with the historical events coming in the next few days, I will give you the deets. Rick Bakas, Twitter's premier wine, food and friend to all extraordinaire, is ...

Geek Lady Gaga Visits Google And Twitter

I've always known Lady Gaga was a geek. You don't have to watch too many of her music videos to pick up on her geek-infused way of doing things. Last August, Geek Sugar published an article about Lady Gaga going to geek camp. About two weeks after that, she showed up at the Apple headquarters, furth ...

Design

Social Media Saves The Day With A Terminator Leg

We are seeing more and more stories lately about the warmth, compassion and friendships formed in social media. This time it's about a social media site that many people still haven't heard of, Reddit. Reddit is a site that is very similar to Digg. Ever since Digg started losing traffic (mainly due ...

Lifestyle

Multitasking: This Is Your Brain On Social Media

Are you good at multitasking? I've been a scatter brain my whole life, so for me, sometimes it's hard to concentrate on one thing, much less a bunch, but I always strive to get better at it. I'm usually the girl who does a face plant on the concrete when trying to tweet on my iPhone while walking do ...

Twitter vs. Facebook: A Social Media Revenue Comparison

This is a very interesting topic to me because there are so many factors that come into play when trying to measure the revenue generated from social media marketing. Social media is all about relationship building and networking, and it's strange to me to think about assigning a dollar and cents va ...

Who Uses What: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn… [Infographic]

Social media and social networking have such a hype surrounding them that most people probably think that everyone is using at least one service to connect to others. But as the hype wears off, the true statistics emerge to tell the story more accurately. We're constantly trying to find new channels ...

How To: Be Awesome On Twitter

I've written 1,200 articles here on Bit Rebels, and many of them are about Twitter. It's a topic that never gets old to me. When I started on Twitter back in 2009, there weren't very many articles that explained the whole Twitter dynamic. Those of us who were on the site regularly just had to fig ...

Gender Differences: Men vs. Women on Facebook

I've had a lot of fun lately seeing all the gender related stats we've featured on Bit Rebels. It's really interesting to do the man/woman comparisons, and of course, it's all in good fun. We've already determined that women can get followers much easier and with a lot less effort than men on Tw ...

Social Networking Is Already Using The Cloud [Infographic]

Are you one of those who is really looking forward to the day when cloud computing is as normal as the Internet itself? If so, you might not have to wait much longer. There has been a lot of talk about cloud computing for the past year or two, but we've not seen much progress on the surface of the ...

Facebook Photos: The Astonishing Stats [Infographic]

Relatively speaking, I am still a newbie on Facebook. I've been on the site less than a year. It's fun and all, but to me, it still doesn't touch Twitter by a mile, but I know most people would probably disagree. I think most people were on Facebook long before they ever got on Twitter, but I did ...

The Surprising Discovery About Twitter Retweets