In the all-too-thin file of “Thing Facebook has Done Right Lately”, we find a quiet app launch that greatly eases the lives of community managers everywhere. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Facebook Mobile Page Manager.

Equal parts “hooray” and “finally!”, page managers everywhere no longer have to make a dash to a PC whenever they want to moderate a comment thread, post an update, or pull up some insights on the fly. The full feature set includes:

• Post new updates and photos
• Get notified about new activity when it happens
• Respond, post and comment as your page from your mobile
• Manage all of your pages from the app
• View your latest page insights

The catch? It’s currently only available on iPhone, so all you android users are still relegated to your PC’s. Oh, Facebook…

We’re so immersed in our social media worlds on a daily basis that it comes as no surprise that digital habits could impact our mental and physical well-being. Behold, the latest strange (and awesome) news about the intersection of social media and health:

1) Interactive Billboard Makes a Point About Domestic Abuse:

In the category of “Social Media for Good”, we find this gem from the UK: An interactive billboard in a London trainstation allows passersby to stop a man from verbally abusing a woman on a billboard. Viewers watch as a man berates a woman above them in the station, and are encouraged to go to a website where they can “swipe” the man away – who physically gets moved several hundred feet away in the terminal. While it’s an obvious oversimplification of a scary situation, the point is driven home that sometimes, a phone call is all it takes to separate a victim from his or her abuser.

2) Oversharing on Facebook as Satisfying as Sex?

You read that right – in a new study out of none other than Harvard University, 300 participants were asked to disclose opinions and other information about themselves during an fMRI scan. Researchers found that the pleasure centers in the brain were “robustly” activated, as much so as when indulging in a favorite food, getting money, or partaking in… uh, sex. Feel free to drop that little nugget into your next proposal when a client laments, “I just don’t get the appeal of Facebook…”

3) Hospital to Live Tweet Brain Surgery

And finally, under the heading of “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should”… Houston’s Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital will be live tweeting a brain surgery this Wednesday. Set your alarm – the event starts at 8:30am EST sharp with the first incision expected around 10. The best part? Not only will they be tweeting the event, but the pictures will be up on Pinterest for all to see! This isn’t the first time the hospital has live-tweeted a surgery – their live tweet of an open-heart surgery earlier this spring was viewed an estimated 125 million times. Someone should tell them about the “Overshare” study above…

Mashable pushed out another interesting infographic this week. Check out the stats below on how iPhone and Android users compare on social app usage. No surprise, Facebook accounts for an average of 10% of all data used by iPhone users and 5% of all data used by Android users.

At last week’s F8 Conference, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the newest update in Facebook: Facebook Timeline.  Calling it an “important next step to help you tell the story of your life,” Zuckerberg and his Palo Alto buddies have altered the Facebook experience once again.  They’ve turned the main page of your profile into a running scrapbook of your digital self. You can now scroll down to 2007 and see the photos that a friend tagged of you or see what kind of pages you Liked back in 2009.  The question is: is it too much?

After playing around with the new format (compliments of this Mashable work-around), it’s the first major update that I’m supporting from the beginning.  I didn’t like the News/Mini feeds at first or when the wall began identifying who wrote on it, but this change seems pretty cool.  Facebook is clearly going for the heart-strings by creating an experience where you can easily go back and revisit your history (since you’re sharing it anyway!).

Here’s a short list of what I like/don’t like about the new Timeline:

Pros:

• Can view all of your past activity within seconds
• Map functionality will help create a pretty cool display of the places you’ve been to
• You can now watch TV/Movies, listen to music, and read news with your friends within Facebook
• Applications now identify WHY they need your info and not just the info they need

Word on the UK street is that the luxury sedan, BMW M5 2012 will provide the true meaning of luxury after it releases this next generation model by the end of this or next year. The M5 2012 will feature an extensive range of driver’s assistance, lane change warning system, internet access, extended integration of smartphones and more. You know, all that fun car jazz.  Added into the mix will be Facebook and Twitter apps. That’s right, drivers will be able to post from the car’s dashboard. That’s luxury posting at its finest. Not entirely safe, but definitely buzzworthy. Recommended for those who enjoy waiting in parking lots while their significant other is doing a boring activity.

Source: Yugatech
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