An extreme outburst of grief and despair observed on twitter when Apple announced the death of its visionary co-founder Steve Jobs. Twitter reported Apple founder’s death on Oct. 5, 2011 at 5pm Pacific time. The Peak Records, Twitter confirmed was of 6,049 tweets per second (TPS) started at peak and continued throughout the night making Steve Jobs as fifth most tweeted person with Beyonce taking the lead at number one.

Surprisingly, @breakingnews account tweet confirming Steve Jobs’ sad demise was retweeted 11,000 times. This has never happened before in the history of Twitter. Shortly, after the death of Steve Jobs, the top trending topics on Twitter were #RIPSteveJobs, #SteveJobs, #ThankYouSteve and #iSad.

After official announcement, public outpouring from individuals and corporations started making their way to twitter timelines. Words of admiration and grief came from tweets and statements by leading corporations, showing their respect for this great man. From Bill Gates to Barack Obama to CEOs of Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, sports, showbiz, media personalities and thousands of twitter followers paid rich tributes to the co-founder of Apple, while using their most loved social networking site.

Friends, check the roundup of some our favorite tweets, which are inspirational, thoughtful & even light-hearted but they all show care & respect for the greatest innovator world has seen lately.

RIP Mr. Jobs, you’ll be missed !

Social media is now embedded into our psyche. Social media now affects how we talk, think and communicate with each other. Life as we know it will never be the same, as social media has accelerated the pace of life and now people are just considered to be wired or not. The extent of how deep social media has become a necessity in our daily lives is shown in the new thrust by several universities to offer online degree programs in social media. Universities are not only in the education business to educate individuals. They also exist to provide a profit to their shareholders. So we see, by them offering degree programs in social media only prove the point of how social media has become to our hi-tech society.

In addition, all the major media broadcasting houses have developed various TV programs based around social media. Examples of how social media has infiltrated TV programming is shown in the many eye witness reports that are uploaded to their respective Twitter, Facebook and MySpace pages within seconds of an event. This concept has provided many job opportunities for amateur journalists who are always on the lookout for breaking events.

Before we go any further, let us examine this concept of social media. Social media is an interaction of different individuals through means of technology and telecommunications. These tools provide individuals to share word, picture, audio and video content from locations all over the world. As a result, social media has developed into the main source of contact between individuals.

Bachelor’s Degree in Social Media

Any course in marketing will tell you that where people congregate, there is an opportunity for business. The growth of social media has prompted several universities to devise degree programs that will teach individuals how to exploit the accessibility of social media. The bachelor’s degree in social media has been incorporated in the faculties of business, computing and information management of many universities. The degree is also becoming quite popular as many individuals are now viewing social media as a viable career option.

The bachelor degree in social media focuses of developing student’s skills of business, computing and communication through various mediums such as text messaging, internet, mobile phones, email and chat rooms.

Master’s Degree in Social Media

Recently one leading university launched a master’s degree that focused solely on teaching its students about the use of, effects, opportunities that social media offer to the greater community. This online course entails a scholarly study of how social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo can help both the marketing and communication sectors.

As in all accredited master’s degree program, the course had to meet various standards before it could be approved by the Department of Education.

They have reported significant interest in the course as many companies are now acknowledging the power of social media and want to be at the cutting edge of its manipulation. Hence, whether you are wired or not, social media is here to stay so it is for us to ask ourselves the question “are we ready for social media?”

James Rivington of TechRadar recently went over his hilarious list of things you should not do on Facebook. I picked out some of my favorites:

1. Use Facebook mail instead of Proper Email

Are you silly? When you Facebook mail me, I have to log into my real email to find that I then have to go and log into my Facebook account to read and reply to your message. If you’ve got my real email address, please use it.

2. Add old Friends and then Forget about them

This is the biggest social networking crime of them all. How many times has it happened? You haven’t seen someone for 20 years; you vaguely recognize their name but not their face. They add you as a friend on Facebook and then after you accept them, you never hear from them again.

3. Adding people you don’t even know

It’s one thing to add an old friend and then never speak to them. It’s another to add anyone whose name you kind of vaguely sort of recognize. It’s like that old man in the pub who slaps everyone on the back as if they were old pals, when in actual fact he has no friends, largely because of this habit.

4. Adding single-serving Holiday Friends

Some people just don’t understand that the exchanging of email addresses at the end of a holiday is just a social ritual and is absolutely not an invitation to add you to Facebook and then turn up unannounced at your house three months later.

5. Accepting Friend Invitations from People you don’t know

It’s one thing to complain about irritating people adding you on Facebook, but if you accept those invites, you’ve only got yourself to blame. If you scan through your Facebook friends list, you’ll doubtless find a handful of people in there you barely know. It’s a horrible realization – like when you suddenly realize your hand is resting on a knob of someone else’s chewing gum underneath a desk.

6. Update Facebook Profile when you’re supposedly not well

How many times have we seen it? Someone calls in sick in the morning and then updates their Facebook profile minute-by-minute throughout the day, documenting a day of ice cream, chips, video games and jumping on the bed. Get dressed and get to work you lazy hoodwink, or else you’ll probably be fired. And it’d be your own fault for adding your boss to be your Facebook friend.

7. Moan in your Facebook Status

The most annoying thing that people do on Facebook is to spray their walls with vanity-filled drivel, by posting self-indulgent awfulness in their status updates. “Kerry is sorry how it ended but it had to be done. I love you and will miss you, and I hope you can apologies one day”. Oh sod off. If you’ve got something to say to someone, say it. Don’t post it on your wall because no one else is interested, and people just think you’re a part.

8. Lazy Grammar and Spelling Mistakes

Reading Facebook is like perusing a six-year olds’ English copybook. Come on, people: ‘ur’ is ‘your’. ‘You are’ is ‘you’re’. It really isn’t hard to get that little one right. And understanding the difference between ‘there’, ‘their’ and ‘they’re’ surely isn’t too much of a challenge?

9. Endless barrage of Personal Photos

Well there is nothing more annoying then updating photo albums of about each and every move you made on your Facebook profile. Get a life people nobody really wanted to know the pictorial evidence of last night dinner or fight that you have with friend/spouse/mother. Adding photos are fun but adding them nonstop is nothing but a nuisance on your friend’s profile page.