Sentences with phrase «number of friends of»

They were joined by a number of friends of Winangay including Linda Burnie and Noni Greenwood who talked about the resource and the importance of changing things for Aboriginal kids and families.

«The first is people who downloaded the app, and the second is the number of friends of those people who have their privacy settings set in such a way that the app could see some of their data.

You can also get a huge number of friends of your mindset and wavelength.

The app uses Facebook as a dating tool, introducing you each day to a limited number of friends of friends (with first and last names provided), so there are no «randos» in your dating pool, as the company's website states.

Not exact matches

In fact, being able to make long - lasting connections means something in addition to how many LinkedIn invitations a person receives or his or her number of friends on Facebook.

He dug into the numbers, consulting with a friend from NASA, and concluded that some of Al Gore's models were too conservative about the rate and impact of climate change.

We've come to accept distractions, as the number of ways we can be distracted by friends or co-workers have proliferated.

After calculating and tallying up the maximum possible number of friends each person who downloaded it had at any given time, Facebook last week said the leak affected up to 87 million people, most of whom reside in the U.S.

While roommates are often thought of as a reality that recent college graduates and early 20 - somethings have to endure, there is an increasing number of New Yorkers sharing apartments with friends, lovers and sometimes strangers, deep into their adult lives.

During your broadcast, you'll see the number of viewers, the names of friends who are tuning in and a real - time stream of comments.

Facebook has always had a somewhat fraught relationship with the news: Many users seem to think of the social network as just a place where they can see a friend's baby or dog photos, but research shows a growing number of people also get their news there.

Increasing your number of friends correlates to higher subjective wellbeing.

He then downloaded years» worth of private Facebook messages, records of friends he'd deleted, events he'd attended, photos of his children that he'd forgotten even existed, and even a list of contacts from his phone — including phone numbers of contacts that he is not Facebook friends with or do not have Facebook accounts.

Hangouts, which are used to privately or publicly video chat between friends or colleagues, are getting a number of upgrades:

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

One of the most notable things we found in our research was the high number of people who said that they were frequently offended by what their friends posted.

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An alarming number of students are Facebook friends with people whom they don't actually know.

The number of people who have zero close friends doubled in that time frame, to 25 % of respondents.

That number isn't as important as the fact that of those who have tried my product or service, 95 percent would recommend it to their friends.»

Websites mark your interests with cookies, e-commerce sites store your credit card number, newsletters need your email address and social - media sites track your birthday, job history and the names of your friends.

Yet as online tools and social media make it easier to sell to friends, J. Hilburn and Pangea are among a growing number of young companies embracing the model as a more efficient way to build revenue, reduce overhead and inventory costs, and tap into loyal customers» networks of friends.

Because many platforms have numerical measures of your popularity (friends, followers, connections, etc.), it's tempting to try and build your numbers up as quickly as possible.

Had you looked up Mia Ash in 2015 or 2016, you would have found an attractive London - based photographer with two art degrees and a disproportionate number of Middle Eastern men among her several hundred Facebook friends and LinkedIn connections.

A number of people were friends with Ryan Lanza on Facebook say that Lanza has been posting that he is not the shooter (the posts can apparently only be seen by those who are friends with Lanza).

For some, making friends doesn't come naturally, and so chalking out a plan targeting a certain number of connections in a given time frame works wonderfully well.

Make your followers feel appreciated; not only will they be more likely to stick around for the long haul, but they'll be more likely to tell their friends and family about you, which can have a massive impact on your total number of followers.

The number of likes, shares and comments a post receives from the world at large and from your friends in particular.

People choose who they want to «own» for any number of reasons — bragging rights, a bet on someone's price going up, a way to show off their taste, or to mess with their friends.

According to Chicago police, 28 - year - old Antonio Perkins was shot at about 8:45 p.m. while streaming video of himself and a number of friends who had gathered on South Drake Street.

But in a new, almost 14,000 - word profile, in The New Yorker, staff writer Tad Friend takes a deeply personal look into the Silicon Valley mogul's life and captures a number of statements that reveal some of the mind - bending thinking behind his investments.

John Lilly, the venture capitalist and prolific tweeter, recently cited a friend who categorizes colleagues into buckets, based on the number of tech - industry downturns they've experienced.

«Anecdotally, in the past week, I've had a number of both professional and personal friends who had never heard of bitcoin before, come to me, ask how it works and what we think all because they read an article or saw a news segment,» he said.

«It's fueled a bit by social media, where we're told we need large numbers of Twitter followers, followers of our blogs, LinkedIn connections and Facebook friends.»

Trying to make everyone in the office best friends is a bad idea for a number of reasons, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have meaningful conversations outside of a typical work environment.

Beck, one of the highest - rated conservative radio hosts in the country and founder of TheBlaze, said he's sure «there are those who believe» what they say, but pointed to numbers when asked why so many of his colleagues — many of whom he calls friends — have embraced Trump.

Our testing has shown that doing this in moderation for just a small number of stories can lead to more conversations between people and their friends on all types of content.»

And while their numbers aren't huge, there are enough of them to suggest a pattern of behavior that raises questions about whether pre-politics Trump was much of a friend to small business in practice.

And picking a weeknight wedding can reduce the number of family and friends able and willing to attend.

Narr's study also found kids with broader friend groups tended to grow up with higher rates of social anxiety than kids with smaller numbers of closer friends.

Since then, Patti has reunited with her estranged father, was investigated herself for possible illegal kickbacks, got fired from her job at a nonprofit, ate a tarantula on a reality TV show in her husband's place, got her insurance licenses and started her own company selling coverage to business owners, and saw a number of friends desert her.

Sitting side by side in the Oval Office, Trump said, «We've become very good friends over a very short period of time,» and produced charts to show the depth of Saudi purchases of U.S. military hardware and what he said were the number of American jobs they are providing.

In BC, we have a number of exemptions that allow small businesses to raise capital from their family, friends and communities — in short, to do crowdfunding.

He says Facebook provides a «number of different services» and that the average person uses eight different apps to communicate with friends.

«All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.»

But Facebook was also where Mr. Perry promoted his films, where he posted ads seeking help on the set, and where he communicated with colleagues and a «massive number» of his friends and relatives.

«We have had a number of calls from people who have lost money to scamsters impersonating family and friends,» Clark says.

Married couples have tended to put off expanding their families when they see friends and neighbors being laid off and a greater number of foreclosed homes in their neighborhoods.

Organic reach, as defined by Facebook is «the number of unique people who saw your post in News Feed or on your Page, including people who saw it from a story shared by a friend when they liked, commented on or shared your post, answered a question or responded to an event.»

The difference can be surprising; I have seen a number of friends buy at «expensive» prices (say, $ 300 + per bitcoin) and make considerably more money than others who bought at «cheap» prices (say $ 30 and below) but then traded along the way.