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Released: August 30, 2010
Blocking out online friends
Source: Michael Rosenwald, Washington Post (Free Registration)
Esthela Gonzalez’s friends are talking to her, but she’s not listening.
The chatter is coming at Gonzalez not over a cup of coffee or at Five Guys, but through her iPhone, on Twitter. Gonzalez, bored by some of her friends’ blabbering, has quietly put a few of them on the social networking equivalent of time out. Using a $4.99 iPhone application called Twittelator Pro, the 36-year-old from Chantilly simply tapped a button that says “mute” and, voila, her friends’ tweets are blocked. Best of all, they’re totally oblivious that they have just been silenced.
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privacy, online, headlines, personal information, access, social networks, computer, texting
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