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How To Easily Hack Your Facebook Profile Photo

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I had resisted the call to “upgrade&# my profile on Facebook for several weeks. For the last few days, there has been a message at the top of my Facebook homepage, “Get with the program. Let me know how you decide to use those photos at the top of your Facebook profile page. Yes, I finally gave in.

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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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Facebook Tip: How To Choose Who Can See Your Friends

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Most people don’t seem to mind if the world can see who they’re connected to on Facebook. When logged into Facebook, look over to the right at the top of the page. One of the many recent tweaks which hasn’t received much coverage is the ability to control who sees your list of friends. Click on Profile.)

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Dear Ex-Facebook Friend… | Almost Savvy

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It was inspired by a very real exchange with someone on Facebook and the excerpt from my email below is verbatim, but please take this for what it is – an example which highlights how we have different ideas about how best to use social media and how we define what type of conduct is appropriate for members of our own networks.

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It’s All About.Me (Your Identity Online – Simplified)

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I want to make it incredibly easy for the email recipient to learn more about me, so I include links to find me on my own website , my professional profile on LinkedIn , Twitter ( two accounts ), and the Almost Savvy page on Facebook. Here are more examples of interesting about.me I consider it a work in progress. Do you have an about.me

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3 Mistakes You’re Making Online

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You are the friends and family you on Facebook. In addition to finding the professional you on LinkedIn, I may easily find content you shared on Facebook which you thought was only visible to friends, your ranty comments on YouTube videos and blog posts, and all sorts of photos of you (whether posted by you or someone else).

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The #1 Reason You’ll Want to Use Google+

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It is clear that the team at Google thought long and hard about how people and brands use Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and worked to incorporate the best features of all, while adding a few cool features we haven’t seen before. I’ll be addressing those features and how to get started using Google+ in the next few posts.

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