Our military apparently had a policy in place that did not allow our men and women in Armed Services to use Social Media sites (that is an amazing thing for the military to even waste time on enforcing as a rule) …but it seems that they’ve had some change of heart. Read more below…

Wired’s Danger Room blog has obtained a copy of a May 18 operations order from the Army’s 93rd Signal Brigade directing information managers on domestic military bases to allow personnel to access Facebook, Vimeo, Delicious, Flickr and Twitter.

Read the entire article at  http://techinsider.nextgov.com/2009/06/army_to_stop_blocking_some_soc.php

I still dont get the negative impact that using social media would’ve made… unless they were concerned the Taliban is on Twitter or North Korea has a Facebook Fan Page…maybe I should check LOL

G. Wayne Clayton is the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Integerol LLC along with SocialMarketingExpert.org. He’s a former newspaper publisher and investigative journalist. He has been seen seen and heard on CNN, Fox News Talk radio, quoted in The Toronto Star and is a Guest Blogger on FastCompany.com.

Facebook is not dying..but it is turning older. Older demographics are using more of Facebook daily. Dependent upon whom you ask that either a good thing…or a bad thing. Frankly, its all good — just ask the other 2500 social networking/news/media sites out there if they’d like to have THAT problem.

Facebook (and other social networks) has been skewing older for a while, but the trend has been “massive” in the past six months, according to InsideFacebook.com. In the past two months alone the number of new members over 35 has doubled. Marketers take note: the median age is now over 25, and the largest single group 35 to 44. 
Read more at 

http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/facebook-isyour.html