Ari Herzog

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Protect Your Online Privacy: Say NO to Ad Cookies

Ari Herzog

Sometimes the website has a privacy policy that tells you this, sometimes it doesn’t. Facebook and Yahoo Mail account holders, for instance, may be exposed to banners or other advertisements. Related posts: Install Website Ads and Risk Losing Customers. Learning Online Marketing from McDonald’s and Coca-Cola.

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Google vs Facebook: Name the 2011 Winner

Ari Herzog

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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Former Facebook User Explains Why He Quit

Ari Herzog

When the Federal Trade Commission and other regulatory and free speech advocates focus their eagle eyes on Facebook , management perks. It is for this reason that I was intrigued after reading an anti-corporation blog post by Adriel Hampton in which he shared he deleted his Facebook account. Facebook has gone rogue.

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Evolving on Facebook From Then to Now

Ari Herzog

Reviewing my Facebook history from Day One (which you can learn how to download yourself ), I’ll guess I joined the social networking site in the spring of 2005 shortly after I gained an.edu email address in graduate school. Facts from my Facebook past… August 30, 2005: I wrote a message to someone for the first time.

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Meet the Fediverse

Ari Herzog

By contrast, larger and older services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat only allow people who have accounts to message each other. It’s not possible for a Facebook user to message a Twitter user. The larger services have corporate investment, advertisements, and privacy concerns. Meet Mastodon.

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Hide Facebook Profile from Search Engines

Ari Herzog

I am a Facebook oxymoron. Despite being friends with relatively few people on Facebook, anyone, friend or not, can read or comment on my wall. I allow the global Facebook community to find me, read my personal profile updates and comment when inspired; but I disable my profile from being indexed by search engines.

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Why Foursquare and I Split Up

Ari Herzog

But considering I have more local and regional friends on Facebook than on Swarm; my productivity will increase by using Facebook than Foursquare.” ” Citing privacy concerns, I initially deleted my Foursquare account in October 2010. .” “I used Foursquare for the function that is now on Swarm.