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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

Socialized

Changes announced today to Facebook’s privacy agreement suggest the company is about to flip the switch and add location-based capabilities to the social network. Some think this might mean the end for standalone location-based services like Foursquare and Brightkite. I don’t think so. I don’t think so. More on 4sq in a moment.).

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The 2012 Social Networking Privacy Policy

Webbiquity SMM

If you were to do a Google search for some of the top social networking sites , you’ll almost certainly stumble across a news story concerning privacy issues with user data. After an intense user backlash and a decline in numbers, Instagram pledged to readjust its terms to tighten up privacy. Guest post by Athena Newton.

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Third Grade Show and Tell: Online Privacy

Socialized

We ended up having a great conversation about online privacy, which was made all the more interesting by the students relating their experiences firsthand. In order to start up a conversation about privacy, I explained Foursquare, and how people “check in” at Starbucks, the movies, work, etc., Poptropica, etc.

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Embarrassing updates in social media

Sherrilynne Starkie

Nicked from Marketing Pilgrim. ” The website sends search bots to crawl Facebook and Foursquare to find key words such as “hungover” and “cannabis” and divides the findings into four categories: “Who wants to get fired?”, Google’s new privacy policy. It happens all the time.

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

Big data matters to you as humans and a community and as a marketer,” Young told the audience of senior marketing strategists. But there are privacy and data ownership issues.”. With Foursquare, a user could look to find people who are close by, like a woman in a nearby bar for instance. Canada (Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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Would You Sacrifice Your Privacy For A $5 Gift Card?

The Realtime Report

Your location is very, very valuable to marketers. ” And you may already have apps on your phone that are tracking your data (Foursquare, etc). Are you willing to offer them that information, around the clock, in exchange for $5 and $10 gift cards — as well as the occasional bigger prize?

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How to Set Your Facebook Privacy Settings If You Don't Want Your.

Saying It Social

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How to Set Your Facebook Privacy Settings If You Don’t Want Your Personal Profile Searchable Why would you want to do this? In the upper right hand corner click on Account>Privacy Settings.

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