Facebook Introduces New Features Aimed at Strengthening Security

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Security on Facebook is a hot topic, especially with all of the changes they’ve made lately. October is “National Cyber Security Awareness Month” and in support of this, Facebook is introducing a few new features which are aimed at strengthening security. They want their 800 million users to feel comfortable sharing on the social networking … [Read more]

Need a Reminder About Being Careful on Social Media? Take This Lollipop

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Usually, I don’t get too freaked out by social media sharing. I keep my Facebook profile set to “friends only.” I don’t have any friends on Foursquare or Gowalla and only use it for things like finding people at conferences. I’m careful about what I say on Twitter, especially in terms of my location. I … [Read more]

Social Savvy People Eat Out More and Likely to Be Repeat Customers

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An interesting study done by the National Restaurant Association, shows that those who are social media savvy are more likely to eat out, as well as be repeat customers. The study broke the group of adults into two groups – the “connected adults” and the “social media savvy adults”. The connected adults were those individuals … [Read more]

Boy Band Sings “Facebook Official”, Being Called Worst Exposure Ever

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I have a video to show you which is being called the next Rebecca Black “Friday” video. It’s also being called Facebook’s worst exposure ever. Introducing boy band Heart2Heart singing “Facebook Official”. Adage put it well saying this video is “so-horrible-it’s-hilarious” and “warning: it can’t be unseen”. The video is catching on. It currently has … [Read more]

Facebook Failure Infographic

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I love infographics and this one in particular, which came out today, about Facebook really made me smile. With all the talk about the new Facebook Timeline and miserable new app, WordStream decided to come up with a Facebook Failure Infographic. They’re calling it “Facebook’s Wall of Shame: Facebook’s Criticisms, Missteps and Outright Failures”. (Click … [Read more]

Facebook’s New Hybrid News Feed Causes Low Impressions for Facebook Pages

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Have you noticed impressions are down on your Facebook page? I sure did and it’s because of their new hybrid news feed Facebook introduced two weeks ago. It was disappointing to see the numbers down, by quite a bit actually, but according to this new study by EdgeRank Checker, it might not be all that … [Read more]

Zynga Announces New Facebook Games

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Are you ready to get even more addicted to Facebook and spend even more time playing games on the social network than ever? Well, you’re in luck. The people at Zynga, who are responsible for popular Facebook games CityVille and FarmVille, announced a bunch of new games. The announcement came from their Zynga’s Unleashed event … [Read more]

Facebook for iPad is Here, For Real This Time

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Remember the secret Facebook iPad app that leaked in late July? It was hidden inside the code for Facebook’s iPhone app, so of course someone found it and then everyone reported on it. There were all kinds of bugs, which was to be expected for something not even released yet. Well, after months of speculation, … [Read more]

Public Launch of Facebook’s Timeline Has Been Delayed

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The first date we heard, September 30th, for the public launch of the new Facebook Timeline has come and gone. Why the delay? Have you heard of Timelines.com? You might have seen or read about the small Chicago-based company Timelines.com who have asked for a restraining order against the new Facebook Timeline, saying that it … [Read more]

Nikon Upsets Their Social Media Fan Base

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All it takes is one little comment gone wrong to upset a whole slew of your social media fan base and that’s exactly what happened on Nikon’s Facebook page yesterday. Here’s what they posted. Most of their Facebook fans did not take this status update well. They took it as an insult and felt like … [Read more]