This is gonna be a short post- just trying to gather some opinions. Pretty much, I’m going through and trying to re-evaluate how much privacy I actually have online and I’ve been sifting through my online footprints for a little while today. I write everywhere, I’m always trying new techniques and networks to keep up with the industry. But some [...]

Have you ever had this conversation with someone in their teens? Siblings, relative, friends, perhaps? Me: “What’s your email address?” Kid trapped in social network: “An e…. wait, what?” Me: “Email address! Electronic mail!” Kid trapped in social network: “Mail can be electronic? Cool. so… what is mail anyway? Is that that thing called ‘snail mail’ that I hear about? [...]

For a while, there wasn’t that much of a difference between the fan pages and profile pages, other than the explicit “like” or “become a fan” button and ability to customize your tabs/content if you knew FBML and application development. Normal Facebook users don’t know that language (or development) so it makes no difference to them. I really hated this about Facebook- [...]

I absolutely love parodies. I came across this last night and figured I would share. It’s actually spot on, so much that I could probably believe it might one day turn into a movie. But let’s hope it doesn’t. The Social Network is enough as it is…

Facebook. Everyones love it. Some people hate it. Most people love to hate it. I am in the last boat on this one. Facebook is a marvelous invention for social networking but I’m definitely not loving the privacy invasion going on. I know most people are saying, “If you don’t like the non-existing, all encompassing lack of privacy, then get [...]

I recently installed this Facebook Like plugin for my website. I’ve only seen it in action a few times, but I’m fairly confident that it works well- there haven’t been any issues using it. It was super easy to install and customize, so if you’re looking to put a Facebook Like plugin on your site, this one is the one [...]

I came across this interesting article earlier, that was talking about how your Facebook and Twitter profiles and friends can actually affect your credit. You may have noticed a stir recently about credit card companies using your shopping and spending habits to categorize whether you’re a threat to lend to or not. If you constantly shop at Ikea, for instance, [...]

Everyone (hopefully) by now has heard about the volcanic ash, unless you’re living under a rock, and how it’s disrupting flights overseas. I was perusing tweet deck today, when I happened to notice this awesome little tweet… this truly shows the power of social media. The 99 Percent is actually a website that I swear by. You’ll just have to [...]

Foursquare is something that I haven’t gotten into- mainly because I don’t like the idea of people knowing where I am, and what I’m doing… which is what happens when you check in places. The aspect I DO like, however, is the competitive edge… but I’m pretty much a homebody so I highly doubt I’ll be able to become mayor [...]

Google Buzz. It has JUUUUUST enough features so it’s like Twitter, but it’s lacking enough so it’s not overwhelmingly time consuming like Facebook. I haven’t officially decided whether I like it or not. I only found a few features that I like so far: The ability to link it to my Twitter account… even though I’m sure not everyone wants [...]