pamorama marketing, life, social media Home About Bookshelf Links Contact Facebook is Trampling Other Social Networks by Pam Dyer on April 21, 2010 Share Back in March 2008, Facebook was poised to overtake MySpace, but it wasn’t yet the most popular social network in the world. Infographic] Careful, Google: Facebook Has Passed You in Time Spent on Site [Chart] Social Media Ad Spending Will Hit $3.3 Now it’s obliterating everybody. Average Age of a Facebook User? All content on pamorama is licensed under Creative Commons MORE >>

Now, there’s a new website that collates people’s embarrassing updates, categorizes them and publishes them for all world to see (again). No information is posted that hasn’t been published by the social media users themselves.  When you consider that social networks started gaining popularity more than five years ago, it’s surprising that so many people still don’t understand how to or fail to use the privacy settings.  Google’s new privacy policy. Nicked from Marketing Pilgrim. It happens all the time.  MORE >>

We’ve talked for years about citizen journalism and self-publishing, but more important than the channels of distribution are the ways in which content and context are discoved via search engines and social recommendations, and the fact that theoretically this leads to any piece of content available online being indexable, findable and potentially popular. Digital Culture Digital Publishing Lifestreaming Media social networks user generated content Writing content curation self publishing social media user metadataAll totally normal. MORE >>

Unlike Google Places which is a search tool, Facebook Places is a check-in service focused on social interaction. The integration of a check-in service to the already dominant roster of services that Facebook offers is a boon for users and further solidifies Facebook’s hold on its community and their interaction (not to mention social supremacy over Google ). Yes, it raises privacy issues (again), especially when a friend checks-in for you without your permission, but my focus is what it means form the (former) leaders in the marketplace, Foursquare and Gowalla. MORE >>

You can't throw a rock and not hit a concern about privacy and the use of our data online. From newer media initiatives (think Facebook Beacon ) to cyber-attacks (see what Sony has been dealing with ), not a week goes by that some sort of privacy breach or plans for a corporation to do something funky with consumer's data isn't in the news. I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you join an online social network or sign-up to an online service, its incumbent on you to review and understand the terms and conditions. The other side of privacy. privacy. MORE >>