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Evolution of Privacy on Facebook

Mindjumpers

During the last couple of years, Facebook’s default privacy settings have become more and more permissive – and often with great confusion to the users. I have found this chart that illustrates Facebook’s evolution of privacy from the early days in 2005 up until recently.

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Yikes! 10 Years on Facebook…!

Ari Herzog

I created my Facebook account as a graduate student when the site was only available to people with.edu email addresses. The date was Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 1:16 a.m. I will do nothing with my wall and only comment on friends’ updates. Facebook bores me. I will only post milestones on my wall.

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Should You Disable Comments on Your Blog?

ProBlogger

When you started out blogging, you were probably thrilled when you got a comment. As time went by, you probably found some of the comments very useful. But if you’ve been blogging for a long time, and your blog gets a lot of traffic, those comments may be starting to become less of a delight and more of a chore. You may well be.

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How to Manage Facebook Relationships: Reciprocal Friends and 1-Way Subscriptions

Ari Herzog

I write this sentence with 653 Facebook friends, 183 subscribers, and 38 people to whom I subscribe. While my definition of a friend has changed since joining the social networking site in 2005, the core remains the same: Friends are people who I know in the flesh, share an interest or two, and consider socially compatible.

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Evolving on Facebook From Then to Now

Ari Herzog

Reviewing my Facebook history from Day One (which you can learn how to download yourself ), I’ll guess I joined the social networking site in the spring of 2005 shortly after I gained an.edu email address in graduate school. Facts from my Facebook past… August 30, 2005: I wrote a message to someone for the first time.

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Facebook will surge ahead in India

The Marketing Blog

45 pm Facebook will surge ahead in India Jump to Comments I was just reading an interesting news-story, published in today’s edition of Economic times. It compares Facebook & Orkut in India. The story which quotes data from Vizisense.com , predicts that inside 7 months Facebook should be able to overtake Orkut.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2005: Flickr. 2007: Facebook. A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing. Even if Facebook et al. Please continue reading Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old and leave a comment if inspired. This is a guest blog post by Stephen Black. This is his story.

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