Ari Herzog

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How Social Media Should Connect Us

Ari Herzog

I need to tell you why I refused your friend requests over the past two years on social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. While he focused on the interconnectedness of links between blogs, his description goes to the heart of what social media means. Social media is about being social.

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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. Tags: Social Media advertising tools. Related posts: Install Website Ads and Risk Losing Customers.

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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. More changes are apparently coming to the social networking site that approaches 500 million users. Here are his responses… Do you agree Facebook has gone rogue ? Facebook has gone rogue.

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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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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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Approaching Strangers Through Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Using GPS chips embedded in your smartphone and latitude/longitude addresses, it is fairly easy for me to log into an app such as Foursquare , Loopt , or Google Latitude and (if your privacy settings allow me to) see who is proximate to my location. This privacy intrusion is why I deleted my Foursquare account two years ago.

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Follow Me, Friend Me, Do Me Wherever

Ari Herzog

On Facebook: Each of my friends is in a list; and aside from close family and close friends, I’m not following anybody. If you’re the type of person to call me, email me, or otherwise proactively want to see me off Facebook, then I’m seeing everything you post. Social media is diluting.