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Facebook Friend Requests: Accept or Ignore?

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Everybody uses Facebook differently. One of the common questions about Facebook concerns friend requests. I currently have about 600 Facebook friends, which is probably too many for me. Part of this is due to my own learning curve and part due the evolution of my own idea of how I choose to use Facebook.

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Facebook Groups: Privacy Bait and Switch?

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There was a little get-together for tech reporters at Facebook headquarters today. Whenever Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, summons an audience because he’s got something to announce about Facebook, life as we know it grinds to a halt. Some friends and I took the new Facebook Groups for a test-drive to find out.

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How Facebook Hurt My Feelings | Almost Savvy

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How, then, with all this self-confidence, did Facebook (a thing, not even a person) manage to hurt my feelings? I am fairly particular about who I connect with on Facebook. Strategies for using Facebook run the gamut from closely manage to wide open. We used to communicate on Facebook. Why would she have blocked me?

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Twitter Etiquette: Outside Voices, Inside Voices and Whispers

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I had a recent conversation with Laura of EzraTech on Twitter about the practice of sending DMs (direct messages) to new followers. I appreciate an open conversation with someone with a different point of view any day. This is your conversational voice for when you’re engaging with others. Your Inside Voice on Twitter.

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Is Social Media is the Brussels Sprouts of the Internet?

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Yes, there are people who, by choice, do not have Facebook, Twitter or Google+ accounts. Naturally, given my work, the conversation turned to the topic of social media. Naturally, given my work, the conversation turned to the topic of social media. Lola doesn’t use Facebook. Judging from a distance.

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What Was the Hottest Topic at LeWeb 2010?

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With a two-day program filled with tech thought leaders and innovators , there was one subject which seemed to consistently rise about the rest and dominate so many of the conversations at LeWeb. Facebook Groups: Privacy Bait and Switch? What was it? The blaming was all in good fun, but the exchanges were open and enlightening.

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I'm Engaged! (4 Tales of Accidental Twitter Friends)

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I’m virtually engaged – listening to conversations and building relationships online. I began replying to his tweets at both ends of the day and, from there, we struck up quite a wonderful conversation.? Tony Uphoff) Are you “listening&# to conversations on Twitter? No, not that kind of engaged.