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Will Facebook Be the Next AOL?

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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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Social Media Isn’t Conversation, It’s Publication

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The idea that social media allows us to engage in online conversations is getting people into all kinds of trouble, because what we’re doing when we click “Tweet&# on Twitter or “Share&# on Facebook isn’t conversation — it’s publication. That’s because we’re publishing, not conversing.

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Six Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Based on the comments the piece received, I’ve updated it and Talent Zoo published it this morning. They search social network profiles on Facebook, Twitter, etc.; read blog content; and generally look at every available piece of candidate information found online.

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My Brief List of 54 Twitter Rules (Did I Miss Any?)

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A formal RT is not required for widely published mainstream items that everyone has probably already seen. Get the sender’s permission before publishing DM content on the public timeline. Don’t publish tweets like “Must. Make sure Facebook and FriendFeed are configured correctly so you don’t double-post.

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The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks

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Any serious adult user of Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace knows these sites are both social and anti-social. Facebook, the world’s leading social network, trampled the privacy rights of well informed technically literate adults. Really, have we forgotten the lessons from earlier this month?

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

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You’ll also have the option to “cross-post” such that your location and message is published both within the application and to your Twitter or Facebook account. Brightkite automatically creates a short URL for every check-in and cross-posts to Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, though the Facebook implementation has had some issues.

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McLuhan, Socrates and Edith Wharton On Social Media

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McLuhan clearly foresaw the whole phenomenon of blogging, Twitter and Facebook status updates. Whenever we publish details about our selves, we have affirmatively decided to invade our own privacy. Simply because adding a new contact on Facebook is called “adding a friend,” does not mean we are truly gaining a friend when we do so.