The darker side of social media

Emily Cross, Round Table Reporter
April 5, 2013
Filed under Opinion

Social media is intended to help people keep in touch with friends and family. People can post relevant pictures of activities, or anything else they want to share. Recently, sites such as Facebook and Twitter are also being used for arguing and fighting.  Facebook and Twitter are the top two social... Read more »

Facebook guards hacker mentality to stave off complacency

October 11, 2012
Filed under Off the Wire

By Jessica Guynn Los Angeles Times (MCT) MENLO PARK, Calif. _ Facebook Inc. is on the outs with investors, and the tumbling stock price has dented employees' morale and personal net worth. But at 1 Hacker Way, there's no stopping the hacker culture _ or the hackathon. Last week, amped Facebook... Read more »

Private employers, colleges employ privacy-violating policies

March 29, 2012
Filed under Archives, Opinion Archives

By Lisa Conley Round Table online editor-in-chief Whether it’s on Facebook, Twitter or some other social networking website, it feels as though people post every detail of their lives; however, as insignificant as those details may seem, it is still a person’s right to decide with whom they share... Read more »

All work and no play: is it really worth it?

January 13, 2012
Filed under Archives, Blog Archives

By Ana Billotti Round Table editor Sometimes in life people have to do things that they dislike rather than things that they love. This can be doing anything from working, to homework, going to school, or even attending meetings that the person is utterly uninterested in. Life can’t be... Read more »

The madness of time management

December 12, 2011
Filed under Archives, Blog Archives

By Ayla Mulvey Round Table reporter  We all have those busy days where we feel like we don’t accomplish anything on our “To Do” lists. We end up getting stressed out, feeling like nothing is going right, and it results in a horrible day. Sometimes there’s just not enough time in the... Read more »

Facebook privacy settings sneak up on users

November 28, 2011
Filed under Archives, Blog Archives

By Ayla Mulvey Round Table reporter Facebook seems to change its privacy settings more often than some of its users post.  As a result, many users, particularly teenagers who are more interested in using Facebook socially than worrying about privacy settings, are exposing potentially sensitive... Read more »

High gas prices concern MHS

April 11, 2011
Filed under Archives, News Archives

By Audrey Tolland Round Table reporter Conflicts in the Middle East have recently begun to consume the news. The chaos has brought awareness and concern to Middletown High School students, and has started to impact drivers as well. The issues that first took place in Tunisia, by a human sacrifice,... Read more »

Revealing too much information online can lead to danger

March 4, 2011
Filed under Archives, Opinion Archives

By Shannon McKenna and Sarah Jacques Round Table editors “By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.” -Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook Sometimes posting information on the internet, even though it may seem safe, can be risky. You might be giving... Read more »

Spring dresses celebrate warm weather

February 18, 2011
Filed under Feature Archives, Feature photo archives

Part of an event organized on Facebook, many Middletown High School girls put on dresses to celebrate the unseasonably warm weather. Though the weather won't last long, students are enjoying it while it does. - Photo by Blair Donald

“Like” it or not, Facebook is addictive

January 20, 2011
Filed under Archives, Opinion Archives

By Carlee Lammers Round Table editor-in-chief One out of every 13 people on Earth has a Facebook account, according to a report from CNN. Even worse, three out of four Americans have active Facebook accounts and one out of 26 of them signs-in on a daily basis. Are we moving toward becoming a nation... Read more »