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Digg: Your Privacy is an Illusion

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Nearly four months later, the social features appear to be here to stay. 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. Plus, the privacy is only one way (incoming only).

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Social Class Distinction Between MySpace and Facebook ยป Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

student Danah Boyd and covered by BBC News has determined that there is a “sharp division along class lines among the American teenagers flocking to the social network sites.&# It was a real private but promising social network. Professionalism and Privacy. Why did I join in 2004?

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Want to Friend Me on Facebook? Please Use My Public Page or.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Despite the fact that Facebook has the most customizable privacy settings of all social networks (though we could argue with their effectiveness in a whole other post), people don’t like maintaining a “business&# identity on the same profile as their “personal&# (fun?) I’d be honored to have you join me.

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How Spying On Your Friends Causes Reevaluation of Endorsed Content

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reply Our Monmouth May 1, 2008 at 8:49 am Internet privacy concerns always make me think twice before I click. Frankly, opt in social media does not bother me more than the data government and corporate America is silently collecting. Reply Sumesh May 7, 2008 at 9:17 am The internet’s a bad place for privacy and anonymity anyway.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here are five steps you can take: Review In a committed relationship, if there is any hint of disagreement in the social space, it’s time to sit down and look at one another’s social networks. Most of my social network profiles are business-related, however I have reserved a couple for friends and family only.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn ร‚?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

by Tamar Weinberg on December 19, 2007 Share How do you leverage different social networks? I am fascinated by the amount of social networks that I’m part of, but better yet, I’m intrigued to find that I assume different “personas,&# at least in terms of choosing friends (and using the networks), on each social site.

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13 Reasons Why I Am an Obsessive Compulsive Facebook User ร‚?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Facebook is not just a social network anymore; it is a society. Having a simple, yet totally functional design, is a reason why I have could say that Facebook is my winner among all social networks of its kind. Right now, the privacy measures for such things are tight, so you need to opt-in entirely for this.

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