Getting internationally social with Whitney: Palestine, Twitterland and the Isle of Man

After a great weekend of food, people and some pretty wild weather, the best thing to do is settle in to the work week with some palette refreshers. Kind of like ginger, but for your brain.

Wow, I've got you thinking outside that Monday box already.

Here's what "went down" -- if you will -- over the past few days.

• FOLLOW vs. FOLLOW THROUGH: 60% of Twitter users don't return the month after their first foray. [Nielsen]
• Apparently hate found a place (but not for very long) in the digital age as Facebook recently had to shut down a Isle of Man KKK group from organizing on its site. [Mashable]
• A friend introduced me to a site out of Palestine where people from all over the word can input a message for volunteers to spray paint along the separation fence (wall) that Israel has built in the West Bank. [http://sendamessage.nl]
• If you were anywhere north of a secret bunker this week, you were hand sanitizing like crazy to ward off the Swine Flu. Well, Mashable shares the tools to keep you up-to-date your fears in check -- all from the comfort of your desktop. [Mashable]
• Members of the infamous 4chan internet forum skewed the results of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential poll by voting the site's founder "moot" into the top spot, surpassing Oprah and megachurch pastor Rick Warren. (Word of advice, don't follow any links you might find by Googling 4chan during business hours. It's VERY VERY NSFW)  [PCMag] 

  This week's photo credit: upyernoz/Flickr

  
  And as always, if you have any tips or links worth mentioning, send me some social aggregation fodder via the e-mail or on the Twitterz.
  

Whitney Sides Mitchell is an intern social media planner for Luckie & Co., founder of the local-music blog BHAM.FM and a music blogger for AL.com. Her Social Pathology Report appears here each Friday.

Comments

[ERM]

I served at Erez cross in Gaza-Israel border 12 years ago, no changes to more peaceful live to both sides since that.
BTW painters are funny people, but avoid kidnepping by Hamas guys...