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Forget Facebook and MySpace – Wall Street Journal Shares Your Information Too

Stay N' Alive

First they talked about Facebook and the fact that their apps like Zynga’s Farmville are revealing personal data about users to advertisers. Next, they created, then deleted, then re-created a MySpace story about the same thing that MySpace is doing for their users. Neither do I). and all that is stored on their servers.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

That doesn’t typically fly elsewhere (Facebook will kill the account), but Times Square on Friendster required 2 accounts at the time because I maxed out on the initial 500 person limit. The High Point: Facebook In 2004, I joined Facebook and my behavior changed drastically. I had many friends just like that.

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What Facebook Knows About Innovation (That Every Brand Should Pay Attention To)

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Blogs posts, articles and books have been written about Facebook and their ability to grow. " There''s no doubt that it takes a certain type of individual to work at Facebook, and it takes a certain type of online social network to have broken through like they have. Users complained, but Facebook wasn''t focusing on it.

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Employees Are A Critical Element To Your Social Media Success – Are You Leveraging Yours? Apple Isn’t!

SocMed Sean

Without people and their personal relationship information, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter would be reduced to…well…MySpace. Recently, Apple’s social media policies were leaked to the public and their contents were startling. Share this on Facebook Tweet This! just makes me shake my head.

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Bye Bye Facebook, Bye Bye Twitter

Ari Herzog

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. I need to reduce my online usage and increase my overall productivity to secure a full-time position in policy and communications.

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Will Facebook Be the Next AOL?

Socialized

I think Facebook is on its way to becoming the next AOL. Chris Hall published an interesting post titled Is Facebook Today’s Internet ? Chris contends that Facebook today is similar to the Internet itself circa the 1990s: Everyone’s clamoring to get on. You don’t use apps, you use Facebook apps.).

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I Invented Facebook » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here’s the real Facebook, long before I joined the social network myself: Truthfully, it doesn’t matter who invented Facebook. Here’s the real Facebook, long before I joined the social network myself: Truthfully, it doesn’t matter who invented Facebook. Facebook is like Classmates.com.

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