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If you were to ask Laura, the 17-year-old behind the Tumblr account jamezmasjew.tumblr.com, to describe the different types of social media teens use, she would show you four animated GIFs she created and shared on Tumblr this month that got her over 200,000 re-blogs. And we’ll admit it: As self-proclaimed Tumblr addicts, we got a laugh out of them here at HuffPost Teen. Check out her post in the below slideshow and share your thoughts in the comments. We want to know: What image would you use to describe Pinterest?

Another one of our favorite, LOL-worthy takes on social media describes the different channels not as GIFs — but donuts. Check out the delicious, viral joke from Funny or Die here.

Facebook is for popular people

Myspace is for musical people

Twitter is for famous people

Tumblr is for magical people

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Or if you want you can read my article on Tumblr (from a while back) - Blog and Roll

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For an event being hyped by organizers as the world’s “first social mediaOlympics,” the summer 2012 games in London have some pretty antisocial policies.

Athletes will not be allowed to tweet photos of themselves with products that aren’t official Olympics sponsors or share photos or videos from inside the athletes’ village.

Fans, too, could be barred from sharing on Facebook and YouTube photos and videos of themselves enjoying the action.

Business owners will have restrictions as well. They won’t be able to lure customers by advertising with official Olympics nomenclature such as “2012 Games.” Regulators will scour Olympic venues to potentially obfuscate non-sponsor logos on objects as trivial as toilets.

The imminent crackdown is largely the result of a pair of stringent brand-protecting acts passed in the United Kingdom in preparation for the games, as detailed in this recent _Guardian_ report. The pieces of legislation are 2006′s London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act and 1995′sOlympic Symbol (Protection) Act.

Breaking the big-brother rules will be a criminal offense.

It’s hard to imagine the ‘branding police’ actually sifting through social media to go after people who post photos of themselves at Olympic venues, but at least one legal expert says the scenario is not out of the question.

SEE ALSO: London Olympics Restricts Volunteers’ Twitter and Facebook Use | London to Get Europe’s Biggest Ever Wi-Fi Zone Before Olympics

Paul Jordan is a partner and marketing specialist at a law firm that is helping official Olympics sponsors and non-sponsoring businesses comply with the laws.

“On a very literal reading of the terms and conditions, there’s certainly an argument that the IOC could run that you wouldn’t be able to post pictures to Facebook,” he tells _The Guardian_.

“I think what they are trying to avoid is any formal commercial exploitation of those images, but that’s not what it says. And for that reason, it would appear that if you or I attended an event, we could only share our photos with our aunties around the kitchen table. Which seems a bizarre consequence.”

Do you think brand sponsors and marketers have too much power in sports today? Let us know in the comments.

_Thumbnail image courtesy of iStockphoto, nkbimages_

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Now that the crisis has hit, which channels will you use to keep the public informed, and how will you use these new powerful social tools at your disposal? For example, do you have an emergency hashtag strategy? Why is this important? Smart disaster response agencies all around the world have used Twitter to great effect to inform the public about developments surrounding natural disasters before, during and after they happen. 

The American Red Cross has been perhaps one of the most sophisticated agencies in the world deploying social media and mobile technologies in the time of a crisis. Here’s what they learned from the way the public uses these new technologies to communicate among themselves when their lives are turned upside down. Americans (and I believe this could be extended to people across the developed world) are turning to social media to quickly tell their contacts how they are surviving a disaster, their recent survey found:

• Followed by television and local radio, the internet is the third most popular way for people to gather emergency information with 18 percent of both the general and the online population specifically using Facebook for that purpose
• Nearly a fourth (24 percent) of the general population and a third (31 percent) of the online population would use social media to let loved ones know they are safe;
• Four of five (80 percent) of the general and 69 percent of the online populations surveyed believe that national emergency response organizations should regularly monitor social media sites in order to respond promptly.
• For those who would post a request for help through social media, 39 percent of those polled online and 35 of those polled via telephone said they would expect help to arrive in less than one hour.

The findings are handily summarized in this infographic, courtesy of MSNBC’s technology blog:

via SocialMediaInfluence