Sometimes getting technology first is a mixed blessing. Yes you have the coolest, newest, shiniest thing on the techno-sphere, but you also get to be among the first to find out its bugs, glitches and foibles.

In a Yahoo Finance article Hanging with the money crowd, they talk about how weight gain is contagious in social networks, a concept backed by New England Journal of Medicine as well as Weight Watchers.  But does that also mean that other traits and values are also "contagious?"