Is Twitter Tailor-made for Internet Research on Health Issues?
It used to be that doctors only needed to worry about having colleagues second-guess them. These days, what with health information being so abundantly available on the Internet, and with more than half of all patients accessing that information when they need treatment, doctors find that they need to stay on top of recent developments more than ever before. Of all the places on the Internet that people head to for medical information, trusted social networks feature on top – places where one can consult with friends and relatives on what to expect of a health problem. With so many potential customers on the social networks, drug companies would give anything to have a say there; if only government rules would allow them.
The problem is, the Web 2.0 medium has developed so fast, that government regulations haven’t really caught up with how to deal with them. Only recently, the FDA in the US got a meeting together for about about a thousand members of the drug industry, to raise ideas about how best to deal with Facebook, Twitter and the like. Many people in the industry feel that there is not much hope for whatever comes out of these planned meetings. Indeed, new policies are not due to arrive for another 6 to 8 months.
Why is it that the drug companies fret so much over this? To begin with, people are used to trusting what they read, having been made bold by all these years of regulated error-free information on television and in print. People don’t realize that medical information on the Internet is completely unregulated, and anyone can just put out information that is misleading or downright fraudulent. The major pharmaceutical companies have no way of making sure they don’t lose customers to disinformation. The pharmaceutical industry needs to spend billions on magazine and television ads, to counter the disinformation on the Internet. When the drug companies did try to put out small Internet ads earlier this year, the government asked them to make the advertisements more information packed- or to pull the ads. In the absence of good information, people don’t wait for the government to get Its act together. They just seek out bad information.
Facebook Tips You Never Knew Whom to Ask
When something is as important as Facebook and as deeply-featured too, anyone who doesn’t stay tuned in to latebreaking news with Zen like powers of concentration is likely to feel a little overwhelmed. Here are some expert tips on how you can get the best out of Facebook.Get Xoopit
Firefox is such a universe of add-ons, you could be forgiven for leaving one or two out. Try Xoopit; this add-on is meant for Gmail when used on Firefox. It lets you easily browse and share files on Gmail with your friends on Facebook. You can also use Gmail as a remote control box for Facebook with this add-on.
Get a URL for your Facebook page
Socialtoo is a website that allows you to put down any URL you for your Facebook home page choose (in the format yourchosenname.socialtoo.com ); it helps because, now, your friends will not have to go to Facebook and look up your name from a dozen choices. Of course, it will be awkward explaining to your friends why an address that doesn’t have the word Facebook in it should be your Facebook address; but they will get over it.
Set your mobile to talk to Facebook
This is possible now; on your Facebook page, look up the mobile button, and make the adjustments necessary; you can upload anything from your cell phone, photographs included, directly into Facebook.
Nifty search tips
To begin with, make yourself as findable as possible. Put in as much information into your profile form as you can manage, your age, where you went to school, your favorite band, and so on. When you are searching for other people, Facebook offers you the use of a number of special search characters to narrow the people you have in mind down by how old they are or any other characteristc you fill out. Look up Facebook’s search tips on the help page.
But the best thing about Facebook of course is the fact that you can use third-party apps. The Twitter application is one of the best. You can use Twitter with this, to update your status on Facebook. There are dozens of other applications to as you’re no doubt aware of. Digsby is a great new app; it can run unobtrusively to give you streams of everything on Facebook chat and all the other chat clients you have. If you come to think of it, getting the best stuff done on Facebook all comes down to third-party websites or applications.
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