Oh Facebook, you just don’t get it do you? I would think that after you’ve been made to sit in the corner by the Canadian Privacy Commissioner once, you would have learned your lesson. Guess not:
The complaint addresses a tool implemented by the social-networking site in mid-December that allegedly makes users’ information more readily available than before. New default settings, which users were asked to review at the time, have actually taken a step backward, the complaint said. “The individual’s complaint mirrors some of the concerns that our office has [...]
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Hey did you feel that? That subtle shift? That was us moving into a new section of the tech bell curve, the section where more of tech moves from the early adopter section and into the mainstream.
No, I’m not really talking about Facebook. To me Facebook is like the California Roll of social media, it’s easy to get into and there is no of the raw fish to scare the sensitive away. I’m not talking about blogs either, blogs have become shorthand for web-publishing now. What I’m thinking about is [...]
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I try, as much as I logically and realistically can, keep Facebook at arm’s length from my world. I realistically can’t delete my Facebook account nor can I just eschew using Facebook as a powerful promotional tool within social media. That doesn’t mean I have to like it.
Recently I commented on the nature of public and private and before that how employers perceive potential and current employees through their Facebook (and other social media) profiles, both posts raised some hard and difficult questions. Things that we haven’t really had to [...]
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Yeah, I’m a well known Facebook curmudgeon and haven’t had ads here on the site for years now, but yesterday that changed.
Sigh.
I’m willing to admit when I’m wrong, or at least when I need to wise up to reality. I know Facebook is huge and lots of people make that the centre of their online universe. I’m just not one of those people. Yes, I’m on Facebook and have a respectable number of Facebook friends, but Facebook just doesn’t provide much for me that I can’t get elsewhere.
Except for events.
And [...]
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This week I asked Chris Breikss of 6S Marketing to talk to my class about what he looks for in potential employees (and ostensibly interns as well). Beyond the standard resume and cover letter advice (check spelling and grammar), he said something that made the entire class sit up and take notice: the Facebook Test.
Not only does Chris and his team look in the usual places (Google search, Twitter, blogs) but also Facebook … and with this little FB app called “Photo Stalker”, he can also see if you have [...]
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It seems that a week doesn’t go by without receiving at least a few requests to be a fan of this or that on Facebook. Most of the time the requests come from friends, so I’m happy oblige, of course that doesn’t mean I’ll probably ever go back to that fan page (Facebook updates still don’t hit my radar in any meaningful way) but I’m a fan nonetheless. And like all new, shiny social media doohickies, people are also flocking to make their Facebook fan pages.
But maybe they shouldn’t be.
No, [...]
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Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
