Personally, I am a very Social Media-ed person, I have profile in most of the popular social media platforms, like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest and more recently mig.me (last one is a pretty new local social networking site). Of course, I cannot be active in all the above and hence only select a couple of them to focus on my sharing and browsing (main one being Facebook). 

Ever since I gained my momentum in stock investment from the beginning of the year, I've learnt quite a fair bit of my investment knowledge (the fundamentals, the do and don't etc.) from social media, especially local personal finance blogs. Hence, I always think that social media do play an important role for retail investors in keeping abreast of our investment acumen as well as boosting the chance of success. 

Yesterday, while roaming at the Popular bookstore, chanced upon ...