Ari Herzog

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Why Facebook Breeds Voyeurism

Ari Herzog

Rachel Jonat recently shared why she quit Facebook , extracting in part: I want more from my friends than status updates. I’d rather give up the 189 Facebook friends, the majority of whom I don’t have or want the phone number of, and focus on the people near and dear to me. people who watch everyone else Facebooking.

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Slapped! Facebook Blocks Me For 14 Days

Ari Herzog

I am seeking re-election to the Newburyport city council and actively sending Facebook messages to people who live in my town to 1) introduce myself and 2) inquire if they would like to be my friend. Rather, I’ll bet Facebook the system marked me a spammer for sending so many messages to non-friends in a short amount of time.

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Bye Bye Facebook, Bye Bye Twitter

Ari Herzog

Six years on Facebook and three years on Twitter taught me a valuable lesson: social networking sites are about more than being social and can be the impetus for business, income, and relationships. Maybe facebooking and tweeting have nothing to do with it, but they might. Related posts: Facebook Twitter and LinkedIn – The Truth.

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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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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

This is a guest blog post by Stephen Black. 2007: Facebook. Blogs — “web logs” as they were first called, began to appear. I may have opened a MySpace account when it was still the talk of the digital town. Even if Facebook et al. When he's not blogging, Ari helps brands improve their digital media marketing.

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8 Social Media Tips to Memorize Now

Ari Herzog

If you want to start writing a blog, do it. With 500 million members, the easiest way for people to know about your company’s new products is Facebook. You don’t need to pay money for running ads there, but you should create a Facebook Page as soon as possible. Forget what people tell you about MySpace being dead.

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Like This Post? Share it on LinkedIn!

Ari Herzog

The top right corner of every blog post on AriWriter now sports a LinkedIn share button. A Facebook share button is at the bottom of the post.). The LinkedIn share button was released earlier today on the professional networking site’s blog. To set it up on your blog or website, head over to [link]. at AriWriter.