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Five Things to Do About Facebook Privacy Other Than Closing Your Account

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Sure you’re ticked off about Facebook’s abuses of consumer privacy, but does closing your account accomplish anything? Even if one million people closed their accounts, that would represent 1/4 of one percent of Facebook’s 400 million user base. Read Facebook’s own Privacy page. Inform Your Friends.

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Students Failing English Due to Twitter, Facebook

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The free-form writing style of social networks like Twitter and Facebook is changing the way people communicate, and causing students to fail English. That’s the claim of a piece out this afternoon from the Canadian Press. And academicians are, in part, blaming social networking.

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Social Media Tips for Real Estate You Can’t Afford to Overlook

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The basic steps: If you have not created your social media profiles yet, then this is the first step that you should follow: Facebook profile: If you post from your personal account, then you should consider setting up a business profile on Facebook. The Facebook algorithm favors images and videos more.

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10 Social Media Marketing Tips for Restaurants

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So if you own a restaurant, here are the top 10 social media marketing tips that will help you to promote your restaurant: Make sure to keep an updated and complete social media profile: If you have an existing social media profile, make sure that it contains updated information regarding your restaurant. Come, find for yourself!

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Judge Confirms: You Have No Privacy. Get Over It.

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He was saying that our private information was already in the hands of credit card companies, health care providers, and so many other third parties, the notion that we control this information is flawed. Facebook has made one privacy screw-up after another. Google compromised user information with the launch of Buzz.

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Social Media as an Investigative Tool

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Secura Insurance Companies is recruiting for a Social Media Claims Investigation Intern, whose basic responsibilities include: Utilize various social sites including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and MySpace to gather information for potential claims cases. Monitor any online activity pertaining to specific.

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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.