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Five Upcoming Social Networks To Look Out For In 2021

Ignite Social Media

Social media marketers constantly try to balance the proven practices on established social networks with strategic bets on the up and comers. When I started Ignite Social Media in 2007, the battle between MySpace and Facebook still raged and Friendster was hanging on for dear life.

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Wait, Facebook is MySpace?

Janet Fouts

Facebook is showing off a brand new look and as usual everybody’s in a snit about it. That’s even more true in a social network whose users are often less web savvy and thrown by major UI changes as well as concerned about privacy issues. This outrage happens every time anything new is introduced on facebook.

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It’s Time to Rethink Facebook

Direct Marketing Observations

You’re thinking of leaving Facebook. I’m thinking of leaving Facebook. It may be time to evaluate the value of your relationship with Facebook. And then there’s that whole contextual advertising thing taking place on the social network. In Europe, the feeling is no less different.

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The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks

Socialized

Everyone’s talking about the launch of Togetherville , a social network designed to bring parents and their kids together with the goal of learning responsible social networking. Any serious adult user of Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace knows these sites are both social and anti-social.

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

Stay N' Alive

It seems like every other day Wall Street Journal is talking about some other Social Networking site that is revealing all your information to 3rd party advertisers. First they talked about Facebook and the fact that their apps like Zynga’s Farmville are revealing personal data about users to advertisers. Neither do I).

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

The history of social media is a long and storied one. It’s bursting with pivotal moments like the launch of Instagram Stories, to that one time Zuck was on trial for Facebook privacy issues, to…honestly, let’s just look at the entire social media history timeline. 2005 marked the apex of Myspace.

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Path: the sequel

Sherrilynne Starkie

Well over a year ago a new social network, Path, was launched. It was positioned as ‘personal network’ and friends were limited to just 50, a number based on the psychology theories that 150 is the maximum number of social relationships any human can handle. This feature might ruffle some privacy feathers.

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