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Digg: Your Privacy is an Illusion

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. Besides major usability issues , duplicate stories submissions , and ads that literally scream at you , Digg has yet another issue to deal with: privacy.

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Social Media Insecurity: What to do When Online Activity Affects.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Just because my work includes strong involvement with social media doesn’t mean that I need to let everyone into my personal life… or for that matter… open my privacy so you can see all my posts. I kind of have an “old school&# approach but I also respect my privacy. Great post.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I think it’s a bit of an intrusion on my privacy with how Spock seems to be harvesting emails. Delicious – collect news links that feed into my blog, because WordPress.com has a widget for it. Reply Tamar Weinberg December 19, 2007 at 11:21 pm Hey Dan, can you explain the recent appeal with Spock?

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

But I do think its important to, if they want to blog, teach them well about how to keep a secure amount of privacy, especially when it comes to pictures, addresses, hang-out spots, etc. All the best from Brazil! Anna Reply Tamar Weinberg June 11, 2010 at 9:36 am I totally agree. It’s why I try to keep my son’s info more private.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I’d add: 1)Social media can increase sales. 2)Social media exposes your privacy 3)Social media resplaces advertising [link] francine hardaway Great list, Jason. I’d add: 1)Social media can increase sales. I’d add: 1)Social media can increase sales. Sincere thanks for the comment.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

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And they mean it, too, saying "At TCBN we respect your privacy. Lesson # 5 Use Social Networks. For the Twitter holdouts, take heed: As far away as Singapore, where Daryl Tay attends Singapore Management University, social media classes are being held. social networking. social media. social news.

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23 Reactions to the New Digg, and It's Not Good » Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As Tamar pointed out, it’s a social news site, not a network and I could care less about how often profiles are updated. Folks that spent considerable time on Digg prior to the update, by and large, were looking for a social news site. All of the usability issues and obvious screw ups are killing me. Is there any?

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