Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Imagine my shock when I attempted to invite someone (who I did not know) to join my LinkedIn network: Huh? LinkedIn’s mission is explicit to “connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful.” And — if so, that begs the question why THEY are on LinkedIn.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

In an effort to better explain to friends and colleagues what I do and where my passions lie, and to illustrate who I am to those who don’t know me at all, I changed my LinkedIn summary yesterday. Related posts: 12 Ways to Use LinkedIn Today. LinkedIn MySpace Facebook Twitter Time. Mine wasn’t up to par.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 28, 2013

I want to delete my Facebook account. Because of my roles as a city councilor and a board director and how Facebook is almost required for constituent relations, I can’t delete my account. To prove that I am serious, I wrote the following message on my Facebook wall so my friends/followers can keep me in check.

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Of 968 and growing LinkedIn connections of mine , 281 of them, or 29 percent, “started something new&# last year. Want to tell your LinkedIn network what you recently did? . -- Thanks for reading What 29% of My LinkedIn Connections Did , the latest article from my blog on the social web. Share it on LinkedIn!

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 8, 2011

It is because of our mutual appeal toward social networking sites, such as Facebook, that I hardly blinked when I read her recent update, “Facebook is fun and all, but seems to be a colossal waste of time.&#. They may have been the right people once upon a time but life is dynamic and Facebook has a tendency to remain static.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 28, 2012

Laurent works for an email marketing company and has her own Facebook page to promote training events and ask her fans what they think about the evolution of social media. She is self-employed and uses Facebook to share industry articles. EJ Smooth plays saxophone and his Facebook page promotes his gigs. Corissa St.

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The top right corner of every blog post on AriWriter now sports a LinkedIn share button. A Facebook share button is at the bottom of the post.). The LinkedIn share button was released earlier today on the professional networking site’s blog. Share it on LinkedIn! Related posts: 12 Ways to Use LinkedIn Today.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 24, 2012

Considering the consensus that commenting by real name is wanted, what are the odds that someone wanting to read more about new and emerging media has a Facebook account? If I present you with the option to comment by Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, or Hotmail, would you do it? Connect on LinkedIn today. Or would you be sad?

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 20, 2012

Facebook is an excellent marketing platform for a restaurant to help it increase brand awareness, recruit new customers, and empower patrons to network with each other. Please continue reading Reviewing 10 Restaurants on Facebook and leave a comment if inspired. Connect on LinkedIn today. Picture by Matthew Hull.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 24, 2012

The Facebook commenting system (alternatively by Yahoo, AOL, or Hotmail login) appears first. Please continue reading Comment by Facebook or WordPress and leave a comment if inspired. Connect on LinkedIn today. When presented the choice between two different commenting systems, which do you choose? Will one beat the other?

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Ari Herzog

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Rachel Jonat recently shared why she quit Facebook , extracting in part: I want more from my friends than status updates. I’d rather give up the 189 Facebook friends, the majority of whom I don’t have or want the phone number of, and focus on the people near and dear to me. people who watch everyone else Facebooking.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

In an effort to reach out to people I know in real life to be my Facebook friends, and cognizant people take their time logging into the site and responding to friend requests, I sent 20 requests inside of 10 minutes. Related articles you may enjoy: Will You Miss My Facebook Friendship? Facebook Twitter and LinkedIn – The Truth.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

LinkedIn comes to the rescue with three optional (yet usually filled-in) sections that people use to describe themselves: 1. There are many guides for writing LinkedIn content but you ultimately are in charge of your own unique attributes. Danny Brown: Connect on LinkedIn. Dominic Campbell: Connect on LinkedIn.

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Six years on Facebook and three years on Twitter taught me a valuable lesson: social networking sites are about more than being social and can be the impetus for business, income, and relationships. Maybe facebooking and tweeting have nothing to do with it, but they might. Related posts: Facebook Twitter and LinkedIn – The Truth.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 26, 2015

I created my Facebook account as a graduate student when the site was only available to people with.edu email addresses. I will share everything I do online to Facebook, turning it into a firehose similar to how FriendFeed operated. Facebook bores me. The date was Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 1:16 a.m. My own content included.

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Ari Herzog

JUNE 26, 2012

I write this sentence with 653 Facebook friends, 183 subscribers, and 38 people to whom I subscribe. Tamar Weinberg nailed these questions in a January 2010 blog post about her similar Facebook evolution : Facebook is about real relationships, and when I look at your name, I want be able to justify that friendship.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

When I wrote an article 14 days ago about accepting all Facebook friendships , I shared why I made that change. Or, at the least, take a break as I did. -- Thank you for reading Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Flickr YouTube Blogging Blah Blah Blah: Knowing Why You Use Social Media is What Counts at AriWriter.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 22, 2011

A recent survey indicates a mere 24% of Facebook likes come from genuine customers who like the brand. “Since not all Facebook fans are loyal customers, this gives marketers an opportunity to leverage the social network to encourage purchases and loyalty among their fans,” the eMarketer article explains.

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I am seeking re-election to the Newburyport city council and actively sending Facebook messages to people who live in my town to 1) introduce myself and 2) inquire if they would like to be my friend. Rather, I’ll bet Facebook the system marked me a spammer for sending so many messages to non-friends in a short amount of time.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 26, 2016

It’s a misnomer that you need Facebook friends to be productive. When you visit me on Facebook , you will see three buttons on the right side of the screen. Facebook friendship is reciprocal. Every time I write a new Facebook update, I can choose to share it with friends only or the entire Facebook world.).

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Phil Baumann says it best: Facebook, Twitter, and every other social media site out there are addictive. It took a physical journey of self-discovery for me to recognize I don’t need to announce what I choose to do; I should just do it. -- Thank you for reading Hi Hi Facebook, Hi Hi Twitter at AriWriter.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 12, 2012

The above screenshot is taken from one of my Facebook friend’s walls. Clicking the link, I learned about sponsored stories and how companies and brands can choose to pay select Facebook users for the privilege of sharing that brand page with their friends. Say you like your gym’s Facebook Page.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 19, 2011

Judging by an analysis of the most-visited websites during the first 11 months of 2010, in comparison to 2009, Facebook hit first place and surpassed Google. Will it be Facebook, Google, or someone else? Related posts: Facebook Twitter and LinkedIn – The Truth. Facebook Movie Comes to Theaters in Fall 2010.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 17, 2010

Nearly two years after writing a very long blog post title about Aaron Sorkin (who received an Emmy Award for writing “The West Wing&# ) writing a movie screenplay about the beginnings of Facebook, that script is now written and the film is shot. Related posts: Former Facebook User Explains Why He Quit.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 5, 2014

With over 8,400 people in a LinkedIn group I manage about social media marketing , why did I create a new group using that dotcom name and ask people to join that? That Facebook page I created for ariherzogdotcom? If you want to interact with me on Facebook, click the follow button in the top right of my profile.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

There is a Facebook application which grades your level of friendship in accordance to the number of times you interact. If you are inspired to add a comment with your thoughts, please visit When You Are Graded as a Facebook Friend in your browser. Related articles you may enjoy: LinkedIn MySpace Facebook Twitter Time.

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Ari Herzog

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

That’s the philosophy of Christina Milanowski in a LinkedIn conversation about why people connect with each other on social media sites. Related Stories Why LinkedIn Throttles My Searches Unfriend, Defriend, Kill Your Friend Be Wary of Absent Ties. From there, the relationship can continue. Thanks for reading.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 12, 2016

Studies from the Pew Research Center and the New York Times indicate the typical American has 245 Facebook friends and knows 600 people both on and off the social network. In other words, if you’re a typical American, 355 of your peeps don’t use Facebook. I’m not specifying Facebook. Don’t get me wrong.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 31, 2015

Facebook says : …you should only send friend requests to people you have a real-life connection to, like your friends, family, coworkers or classmates. LinkedIn says : …the basic type of connection is a contact you know personally and who you trust on a professional level. Media Productivity Facebook LinkedIn'

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Ari Herzog

MAY 21, 2020

Scrolling through my LinkedIn news feed (similar to Facebook’s, showing what my connections are liking, commenting, sharing, and updating), I recognized a while ago that I didn’t know a lot of names. On LinkedIn: Remove connections with anyone you don’t recognize. On Facebook: Unfollow your noisy friends.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 8, 2020

Related Stories The Magazines are Coming How I Consume the News Facebook, LinkedIn, and Me. Because I’m in control of my news consumption , I veer toward op-eds and perspectives on science, technology, and the arts. The goal is for me to be fascinated so much that I can’t stop reading and I’m educated.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 13, 2014

As of this moment in time, 9 people shared it on Facebook, 46 shared it on Twitter, 10 shared it on Google+, and 3 shared it on LinkedIn. Visit the same post on Business 2 Community and you see 8 LinkedIn shares and 87 retweets. And that’s just from my post on my blog.

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Ari Herzog

OCTOBER 3, 2010

I need to tell you why I refused your friend requests over the past two years on social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. I started with Facebook and began accepting friend requests from people who weren’t family members, former coworkers and classmates, or close friends. I need to confess something.

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Ari Herzog

MAY 22, 2020

Maybe you use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, Reddit, Quora, Pandora, Tumblr, Slack, or Plurk. For instance, Ellen DeGeneres has followed my tweets for years but she’s not my Facebook friend. I sometimes send these to Facebook but I don’t do it all the time. They usually respond.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Why I Killed 61% of My LinkedIn Friends. Diverse Summaries of 13 LinkedIn Users (2011). Examining the Objective of Facebook (2008). How to be Productive on Facebook. 10 Tips to be Productive on LinkedIn. Most Popular Posts of 2013 (as shared/commented by you). 30 Tips to be a Digital Storyteller. Why I Blog.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 28, 2014

On Facebook and LinkedIn, I wrote that I needed a pre-existing relationship to connect. Facebook is overrated, I realized during the fourth quarter of the year. Instagram , while owned by Facebook, is photography-focused. LinkedIn is very useful as my job search accelerates. Ditto me on their photos.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 15, 2015

I recently wrote about wanting weak ties on Facebook and LinkedIn. I don’t mind connecting with absent ties on LinkedIn because I want to climb a particular professional ladder but most of my strong and weak ties are in other sectors. Productivity Facebook LinkedIn networking Twitter' I still do.

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