Social Media '' all divorced should pay attention

For some, one of the most difficult and most awkward divorce parties is changing your Facebook relationship status. But a new infographic suggests that you should expect to take the step of the social media until after the procedures of divorce.

According to firm lawyers family of Indianapolis Ruppert & Schaefer, PC, other social media "Don'ts" include talking negatively about his ex and posting pictures of yourself in social gatherings.

Check out out the infographic below for more tips, then scroll down to see the celebrities tweeted about their divisions.

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In October 2010, Christina Aguilera she filed for divorce from ex-husband Jordan Bratman after 5 years of marriage. She qualified fans to their problems of marriage the day before the presentation, Tweeting "is true, every good thing comes to an end?"

Elizabeth Hurley wrote their separation from husband Arun Nayer in December 2010, amid rumours of deception. Due to the absence of a prenuptial agreement, he asked a quickie divorce to protect his fortune of several million dollars.

Eva Longoria he filed for divorce in November 2010 after discovering ex Tony Parker had been "sexting" with a former teammate's wife. Once his knocked-down representative divorce rumors, confirmed the division via Twitter. The day before she would walk on the red carpet of the Golden Globes, she took to Twitter again to express exasperation at their situation.

Tony wrote the news the same day and had published on his Facebook account also.

After weeks of speculation, the British model and actress Katie Price confirmed that his marriage of 11 months with the cage fighter Alex Reid ended in January 2011. He thanked his fans for their support through Twitter.

The vocalist of Limp Biskit wrote his marriage announcement and its announcement of divorce. After his 2008 July wedding Durst wrote, "greetings to the universe of me and my lovely wife Esther Durst!" Now we are one and complete. :o)." Only two months later confirmed their divorce via Twitter: "for those of you ask will confirm that Esther and I have decided to go our separate ways and both thank you for your support." A month after the separation, what to do with its obsolete wedding ring in this tweet contemplated.

Although Heidi Montag he filed for divorce from hubby Spencer Pratt in July 2010, was later revealed to the hungry of Fame couple he falsified his party to stay in the spotlight. This tweet was part of the Act.

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Teens and Social Media: young people who use the Internet to make the greater good (VIDEO)

HuffPost Teen blogger Patrick Mott wrote in his last post: "our social networks can tell a story about us and, if you're like me, you want to make sure that your Twitter history or Facebook says that it is a good story".

Patrick was definitely on something. According to a study by 2012, teens who use social networks are more empathetic with others; around 55 percent of teenagers from 13 to 17 years of age said that Facebook and Twitter opened his eyes to what others are experiencing.

And if anyone knows how to inspire others through their own personal experiences, it is this list of teenagers. From challenge to a large corporation, to the promotion of equality in the school, to touch the hearts of thousands of foreigners through the song, these young people recently used the power of social media to change the world. Scroll down to read their incredible stories.

1 Benjamin or ' Keefe
Eighteen Benjamin O'Keefe was angered by the CEO of Abecrombie & Fitch, Michael Jeffries, when they revived their controversial comments from a 2006 interview on only addressed to "cool kids" brand. In response, Benjamin wrote a blog for the Huffington Post and created a Change.org petition asking consumers to boycott the company until the President issued an apology. Both went viral, and petition had collected more than 74,000 signatures. This caught the attention of executives from Abercrombie, who met with the teenager to discuss future changes that are planned in the manufacture.

"Has become so evident when people unite behind something to believe in, change can really come," Benjamin told HuffPost Live.

2. Students belong
In may, a group of high school students from Missouri who participate in a program called belong, a non-profit organization that inspires teenagers at risk by focusing on the design of the electric car - built a car that is driven entirely by the means of social communication.

Adolescents had restored an older car and programming to be propelled by the interactions of social media as hashtagging #MindDrive on Twitter and Instagram, liking their Facebook page and watch their videos on YouTube. Students then all social use fuel accumulated in unit of Missouri to Washington, D.C. to meet with officials to raise awareness of the benefits of this innovative type of education.

3 Calliope Wong
When Calíope Wong, a transgender woman, was rejected from Smith College because it helps finance documents still recorded as a man. The teen published had the letter of rejection to your Tumblr. As a result, Smith College students create a photographic project by Facebook of women posing with signs of support from Wong. Smith's Calliope rejection on the basis of their transgender identification also inspired a petition of Change.org to Smith "end Trans discrimination in income." After collecting more than 4,000 signatures, the students delivered the petition to administrators in May.

"I'm working so that others who care about equal rights have access to the truth," Wong told The Huffington Post. "And most importantly the transfolk do it after me, so you can inherit better policy and a fairer system of education.

4 Zach Sobiech
Last December, ill with cancer, that Zach Sobiech had posted a song that he wrote to friends and family on YouTube as a way to say goodbye. Song, "Clouds", ended up inspiring thousands of people across the country, and his family began Zach Sobiech Osteosarcoma Fund to support research into the rare form of cancer suffering Zach.

"['Clouds'] originally wrote to my family and others that I love, but which is intended to raise awareness for childhood cancer because I think often gets forgotten in", said Zach.

5 Issak Wolfe
Transgender high school senior Issak Wolfe of Pennsylvania wanted to run for King, but school officials changed their name to the ballot for Prom Queen instead. When his story was posted on the Facebook page of "Have a Gay day" in April, a petition was created to get his name in the dance of Change.org ballot King, as well as its correct name at graduation. After getting shared on Reddit, the request eventually collected more than 4,000 signatures.

"I would like an apology, at a minimum," Issak said the York Daily Record. "Was not given a fair chance. That is, if I don't win, I didn't earn, but I'm not a Queen."

These teens inspires you? What the social media campaign more cool that you get through lately? Tell us in the comments or tweet at @HuffPostTeen.

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Arianna Huffington And Walter Isaacson Talk About Their New Partnership, The Third Metric And The Future Of Media (VIDEO)

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What happens when two powerful minds (and old friends) come together at a festival about ideas? A freewheeling conversation about the future of the media, the importance of wisdom in decision making and the need to redefine success beyond money and power, of course.

Arianna Huffington sat down with Walter Isaacson, president of The Aspen Institute at the Aspen Ideas Festival today to discuss all of the above, and more.

"The wisdom we can have when we sit and talk together is so much greater than each of us individually," Isaacson said.

Talking about the new model for television created by HuffPost Live, Huffington said, "It's about being engaging and bringing in the viewer. The viewer isn't passive anymore."

The conversation ended with a discussion about the new "HuffPost Aspen Institute" section that launched on The Huffington Post yesterday. Dedicated to facilitating conversations around a raft of themes emerging from the Aspen Institute's programming, the section will host experts, commentators and bloggers on issues ranging from bipartisanship to service.

"I felt that it's a shame that not more people can be part of [the Ideas Festival], but we now have the opportunity to take these conversations.. and make them available to millions and make them be part of the conversation, too," Huffington said.

Watch the full conversation above.

This video is part of a series of interviews with speakers, attendees and panelists at The Aspen Ideas Festival, produced by The Huffington Post in conjunction with The Aspen Institute. For more videos from the series, click here. For more information about The Aspen Institute, click here.

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Daniel Burrus: Social Media ROI for Business: Facebook versus LinkedIn

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With the multitude of social media sites, it's hard for businesses to determine where they should be allocating their time and resources. And since many are reporting that they're not getting the return they expected from their social media efforts, it's important to know the psychology of social media and the various types of networking that fall under the social media umbrella. When you understand this, you can make smarter social media decisions for your business.

For example, when most people think of social media, they automatically think of Facebook. But Facebook doesn't encompass the whole scope of social media. There's so much more! For example, YouTube is about video sharing, Flicker is about photo sharing, SlideShare is about sharing presentation slides, and Twitter is about micro-blogging.

One of the reasons why Facebook is so large is their focus on social networking--and in their case personal networking. The ability to find old friends and make new ones, as well as share your life experiences with them, has proven to be a winning combination worldwide.

But Facebook is not the only large social networking site. Another powerful form of social networking is professional networking, and that's where LinkedIn comes into play.

There's a big difference between personal networking and professional networking. Let's look at five of the main psychological differences so you can understand the nuances of each and how they may or may not help you reach the social media goals you have for your company or organization.

1.     Focus

When people visit a personal networking site, their focus is different than when they are on a professional networking site. In professional networking, people are focused on doing their job better, on achievement, on success, and on goal attainment. But those same people on a personal networking site are focused on having fun, nostalgia, keeping up with friends and family, and sharing personal information. In short, personal networking sites are good for memories and connecting, while professional networking sites are good for brand building and career building.

2.     Time

How a visitor spends their time on a social media site is also an important distinction. Since personal networking evokes a casual mindset in the user, people can get sucked in and lose track of time. Often, the social media outlet becomes a distraction or a place to kill time. On the other hand, professional networking is more like investing time. People go there with a purpose to improve themselves, their company, or their future. In fact, depending on the types of connections they make while on the professional networking site, they may even find resources that help them save time.

3.     Content

What people post on the various social media outlets is a big differentiator as well. The type of content on a personal networking site is usually about friends, family, or hobby activities, such as sailing, dogs, cars, etc. In contrast, most of the posts on professional networking sites are about careers, brand updates, business insights, and economic news.

4.     Newsworthy

What qualifies as newsworthy differs between the two venues. When on personal networking sites, people are more apt to focus on family updates, interesting vacations, entertainment, and sports news. But when on professional networking sites, the focus changes to current affairs, business, and economic updates. Additionally, on a personal networking site, what a company's brand is doing doesn't matter as much, but it's one of the top things covered and discussed while on professional networking sites.

5.     Emotions

From an emotional standpoint, personal networking sites encourage users to express their emotions freely and also to share in the moment. For example, your friend may post a photo of their new baby or their dog running at the beach or a wedding. In that moment you can reply and express an emotion back to them. So personal networking tends to be focused on things that are fun, entertaining, humorous, and sometimes sad. In professional networking, there are definitely emotions involved, but they aren't expressed freely and instead they are purposeful. Even if they are personal in nature, they have an aspiration component to them. People even carefully craft their status updates and replies before posting them because they are focused on brand building and professional development. People's emotions are a little more reserved because they're trying to establish and maintain their identity for the purpose of achieving their professional goals.

What the Differences Mean for Business

Since each social media outlet has a distinct purpose, it's important for all businesses to evaluate why they are on a particular social media site, what their goals are for it, who they are targeting for their messages, and how they can best use the medium to advance their company. Then, they have to decide which type of networking--personal or professional--will help them achieve their objectives so they can focus the majority of their time there. This does not mean to totally abandon one for the other; it's about knowing what works best in each venue and giving more attention to the one that produces better results.

In other words, for your business, is it better to socialize with customers? Get to know what products or services they like or don't like? Maintain a professional identity? Build rapport? Elicit emotion? Make contacts? Figure out what gives you the best return on your investment, and then craft your social media campaign around that information. When you know your company's purpose for engaging in social media, as well as what each outlet has to offer, you can make your social media initiative both productive and profitable.

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Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: Obama Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett Discusses Youth Employment

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Young people 16-24 are unemployed at more than twice the national average, and teenagers are unemployed at more than three times the national average. Youth Radio reporter Ashley Williams interviews Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, about Youth Jobs+, a program piloted by the White House to create summer job opportunities for thousands of young people across the nation.  

Below is an excerpt from the Q & A with Valerie Jarrett:

ASHLEY WILLIAMS: Unemployment for 16-24 year olds is more than double the national average, and for teenagers 16-19, it’s more than triple the national average. Why is youth unemployment so high?

VALERIE JARRETT: Well, as you know, when the president took office over four and a half years ago, our economy was going through the worst recession since the great depression. This did have a disproportionate effect on young people. Oftentimes employers make the decisions on who they lay off based on who was the last to come in the door... Those are unfortunately the first ones to lose their positions.

So, the President’s top priority since he took office has been growing our economy, growing the middle class, strengthening it, and providing ladders of opportunity for those who are not in the middle class to move into the middle class. Specifically, he has targeted young people for a variety of different reasons. Not just because it’s important that they have those dollars --and for many young people those dollars are vitally important to themselves and for their families, but also because having work experience early in life, creates opportunities for mentors, it exposes young people to a range of opportunities that they may not have thought about.

I love to tell the story about Ursula Burns who grew up poor, living in public housing. But she had an aptitude for STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math). Early on as a young person, she was able to get an internship with Xerox Corporation. It had never occurred to her to work for a huge company before, but once she got her foot in the door, she discovered this passion she had for engineering, and today she’s the CEO of Xerox.

WILLIAMS: This year the White House launched Youth Jobs+. Other than the name, how has the program changed since Summer Jobs+ was piloted a year ago?

JARRETT: One of the things we learned as a result of last year’s program, which was very successful -- we created over 300,000 jobs around the country and we had a lot of support from the private sector and local governments. This year we thought in our conversations with mayors around the country that it would be important to let them take the leadership role because they’re closer to the ground, they’re in the communities, they have relationships with the business community, that could be instrumental in this effort...

Mayor Nutter from Philadelphia who chairs the U.S. Conference of Mayors, took the mantle and he said, ‘Let me take the leadership,’ and encouraged mayors across the country to engage in this effort.

WILLIAMS: More than 40% of black & brown teens report that they are unemployed. Why are teens of color so much less likely to find work, and what can be done to change that?

JARRETT: Making sure that they have access to quality education, making sure that we’re doing everything we can in elementary and secondary education, and then making college affordable and accessible. Oftentimes job opportunities are not immediately accessible, they’re not in the community where young people are living, and so encouraging employers to look into areas that have been underserved in terms of providing job opportunities, and targeting the youth in those areas is something else that’s a part of our initiative going on this summer with the mayors. We have to make sure all young people have access to those job opportunities, not just a fortunate few.

WILLIAMS: Did you have jobs as a young person? And if so, are there things you learned that helped you later in your professional life?

JARRETT: First, I worked without getting paid in the summers for my dad who had a laboratory at the University of Chicago. I would go over there and I would work in the lab, and just get used to getting up every morning and going to the office with him.

As soon as I was old enough to work I had two jobs. One, I was a clinic coordinator at University of Chicago, so I was the person when you go to the hospital at a clinic and you meet a person at the desk and they take your name and they find out why you’re there, and they order whatever test the physician wants ordered, and keep track of medical records, I did that. And at the same time that summer, I had a second job as a docent at the Museum of Science Industry.

Those early experiences I had in Chicago taught me a lot about the city and gave me a passion for giving back to the city I grew up in and has really shaped my career. So I encourage all young people to take advantage of that opportunity if they have it, and to try hard to find it. You might have to start out by volunteering, like I did in my father’s lab, and you have to prove yourself. After that perhaps someone will bring you on part-time and that will lead to a full time position. You have to sacrifice in the beginning and that will pay off enormously later on in life.

WILLIAMS: Why is it in the best interest of the business community to engage in employing youth? How does that affect the American economy going forward?

JARRETT: It strengthens our economy to have young people a part of the workplace. They’re being productive, they’re earning an income, they’re able to go out and spend that money which is good for the economy. Many young people are contributing to their family income, so providing a little extra money in the pockets of their family is important. All of that helps get our economy going again.

I want to encourage all young people out there: Don’t give up because it’s hard. Keep looking for jobs. Take advantage of any opportunities there are to improve your education so your skills are up to speed when that job opportunity comes along. 

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe.

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Rachel Maddow Blasts Republicans For Being More Concerned With Media Than Policy (VIDEO)

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Rachel Maddow offered another blistering critique of the Republican Party and its heavy reliance on media personalities on her show Tuesday night.

The MSNBC commentator offered several examples of conservative news outlets like Fox News and the Drudge Report getting up in arms about "shocking" speeches that would supposedly reveal President Barack Obama or First Lady Michelle Obama to be terrible people who are clearly unfit to run a country. But there was no smoking gun to actually back up any of their claims.

"The Republican Party has a nonsense problem when it comes to policy, and it comes right from the top. And if you do not like policy, that’s fine," Maddow said. "… But in Washington, the fact that one of the two parties is just unsuited for policy at this time -- it is not their strong suit -- that right now is a problem.”

On Monday, a report by the College Republican National Committee found that most students described the Republican Party as "closed-minded, racist, rigid, old-fashioned." And when asked to identify leaders in the GOP, the students did not list former or currently elected officials, instead choosing media personalities like O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. This, Maddow said, is further proof that Republicans are far more concerned with media than policy.

"If one of the two political parties in our country is not a policy-based thing anymore, if the leaders of the party are talk show hosts, if the only point of Congress is stuff that helps with messaging and collecting email addresses for future fundraising, that probably has a lot of different big picture consequences for our democracy that are too depressing to think about on a Tuesday," Maddow said.

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Hemanshu Nigam: Online Media and Teen Suicide

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In the wake of 12-year-old Gabrielle Molina's suicide late last month, devastated parents and startled communities are seeking answers for how to best protect children and teens from the pressures of cyberbullying and digital harassment. Molina, a repeated victim of aggression from peers at school, also may have dealt with recurrent bullying online. A video of Molina fighting another student worked its way onto YouTube before her death, and Molina made reference to cyberbullying events in a suicide note left behind before she hanged herself in her home in Queens Village.

According to a preliminary report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 38,285 deaths were attributed to intentional self-harm in 2011, which represented the 10th leading cause of death for the year. During the same year, the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey found that 16% of high school students experienced some form of digital bullying within the past year.

Clearly, the pressures children and teens face online are more considerable now than in years passed. Victims are often unable to separate themselves from bullies who are just a click away online. Hateful text messages and the spreading of inappropriate content on social media, cell phones and video websites also represent serious concerns for parents, law enforcement agencies and educators. In addition to intentional aggression, today's young people are also more aware when they are left out of social events due to real-time updates on Facebook.

With so much tragedy experienced by teens and families across the nation, the need for reliable resources becomes more paramount. The following list includes leading support services across the nation for teens, parents and educators to turn to for crisis support:

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/): Launched in January of 2005 by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Mental Health Association of New York City (MHA of NYC), The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline offers free and confidential support during a suicidal crisis. The Trevor Project (http://www.thetrevorproject.org/): Providing comprehensive crisis intervention and suicide prevention to LGBTQ youth through digital means, The Trevor Project provides a free 24/7 national crisis hotline (866.488.7386), a secure online messaging chat service and a text message exchange option to receive support from trained specialists. Law enforcement: Whether through well-person checks or direct crisis intervention, law enforcement personnel serve as excellent resources for troubled youth. Perform a simple Google search to identify local police stations for crisis support.National Association of School Psychologists (http://www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/suicide-resources.aspx): Governing school-based experts in mental health and assessment, NASP offers links to resources for parents and educators, research and journal articles, as well as programs and supports related to crisis intervention.School based programs and supports: Schools provide some of the best crisis intervention available to children and teens. Most middle and high schools have several mental health professionals on staff, including social workers, psychologists and counselors. Elementary schools typically provide one social worker and/or psychologist for mental health support. These individuals also frequently provide school-wide suicide prevention programs such as the Signs of Suicide (SOS) Prevention Program used to empower teens to recognize warning signs and access supports. Any school's main office can connect inquiring individuals directly to the on-site mental health professional(s).Counseling supports: Many states access private counseling agencies to support students in crisis. In Colorado, for example, the Second Wind Fund matches teens and children under 19 years of age who display suicidal tendencies with trained therapists in their local community. Even when school-based mental health supports are not available, school mental health providers can offer recommendations to private counseling agencies in the community.

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