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Facebook Contextual Ads Insensitive to Boston Tragedy

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News and commentary about yesterday''s tragic events in Boston are dominating my feed on Facebook, but there, in the middle of it all, I was appalled to see a pathetic, contextual ad for the Zoosk dating site, with a montage of all the smiling hotties that were dying to meet.'

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Facebook Dislike Button is a Bad Idea

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Facebook users have launched a handful of petition drives asking the social network to allow users to click a thumbs-down icon to give a news feed item, advertisement, etc. There are several Facebook groups with a million or more users advocating this. Tags: Facebook button dislike petition. million members.

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How Social Is Your Company, Really?

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So you have a blog, maybe two, a couple of Twitter feeds, a YouTube channel and a Facebook page. Or is it a one-way feed? A one-way Twitter news feed can be useful, but it’s not engaged. Do you have company social media contact info (your Twitter, Facebook, etc. Your company is truly social, isn’t it?

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Is Facebook’s Social Graph Beacon 2.0?

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With its incredible growth (200 million to 400 million users in the last 12 months), and announcement at its April 21 F8 developer conference of new capabilities, Facebook seems to have become, as Chris O’Brien of the San Jose Mercury News says, “the most important company on the Web.”. All of this raises interesting privacy concerns.

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Tips for Using Facebook Fan Pages

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Several clients have told me recently they don’t think their Facebook pages have as many fans as their brand seems to warrant. One executive compared the “coolness” of his brand to a larger, boring brand that drew many more fans to its Facebook page, adding, “I don’t get it.”. Why do you have a Facebook Fan Page?

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The Problem With Being Liked

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Yesterday I saw a link in a Facebook news feed to a story about the desecration yesterday of a synagogue in Florida on the anniversary of Kristallnacht. What the heck does it mean to “Like&# something? Are you saying you like the story itself, the person who posted it, the fact that we have the freedom to post such a story?

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Comments Were Meant to Be Deleted

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I recently posted on Facebook : “I do not like Donald Trump. But I don’t have to let you campaign for Trump on my Facebook page. One response in particular was so provocative there wasn’t enough room to respond on Facebook, so I am responding here. The platform owns the feeds. I will delete them.

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