Ari Herzog

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How Bloggers and Webmasters Violate Your Privacy With Google Analytics

Ari Herzog

Before installing the customized JavaScript code on a site, how many people read the terms of service ? You will have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy and will comply with all applicable laws relating to the collection of information from visitors to Your websites. But you can’t have just any privacy policy.

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Follow Me, Friend Me, Do Me Wherever

Ari Herzog

What this means is if we’re friends on the site, either you’re appearing in the news feed or you’re not, depending how strongly you care about me. It gradually turned into a place where privacy doesn’t exist and I now share nearly-every post with the world. You can friend me here. Social media is diluting.

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My Blog is Changing Direction

Ari Herzog

I’m straying from writing about social networking, digital marketing, cloud computing, and internet tools; and toward societal issues around online privacy, security, and overall open government. This is to create an obvious home for my pending campaign site. For new visitors, here’s my current subscription link.

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Guess Who is Back on Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Citing privacy concerns and not wanting strangers to know where I was every moment I checked in to a location, I deleted my Foursquare account 14 months ago. How are social influence sites such as Klout and PeerIndex involved? Is the concern of privacy real or imagined? Make no mistake I’m an early adopter of technology.

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Former Facebook User Explains Why He Quit

Ari Herzog

More changes are apparently coming to the social networking site that approaches 500 million users. The privacy/ “Like&# issues themselves were not huge for me; I’ve always had very public settings on my profile and I’m generally very open on the web. Facebook has gone rogue. It’s very frightening.

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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. My privacy settings go a step further where I exclude the profile from search engine results for my name.

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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. For the longest time, I refused to connect with you because I was too obsessed with my own rules of how social networking sites should be used. I need to confess something. So, I said no.