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10 social media sites, blogs and links you might have missed

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I haven’t done a post on stuff I’ve saved lately, and I love when others share links, articles and sites with me, so here’s a few that I’ve accumulated. I’ve been writing and talking a lot about Facebook and children and parents lately, and the site Togetherville is at least a step in some direction.

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Children and Facebook-15 links to Help Parents Learn

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I’m listening to the pushback from Facebook users and parents who are concerned about Privacy. I’m compiling an exhaustive list of blog posts and articles related to Facebook, children, and privacy and how it impacts all of us. Facebook May Share User Data With External Sites Automatically. Stay tuned for the wiki.

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Some Social Tools You Should Know About

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UserVoice creates engaging survey forms on Facebook and other sites to solicit feedback from fans and visitors. PinBoard is a really smart, user-centric, privacy-focused social bookmarking platform. Disqus is a better, real-time comments system for users’ site or blog with fully integrated social network elements.

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10 Things I Thought About in 2016 that Will Still Matter in 2017

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That thinking posed a question internally… ‘How about a site on things I said? Trust issues were a common thing on some of my pages when it came to privacy, the customer and brands. Today I was thinking about a website that I go to, from time to time called Quotes on Design. I quickly shut that thought down.

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Social Media: What’s Right, What’s Wrong, and What’s Next?

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Now add the mobile element to this and what you will see is a continuous explosion of mobile apps, mobile marketing, and mobile sites all geared towards our escalating migration away from the desktop. Mark this down as well: As Facebook rolls out their Facebook email, look for there to be issues around privacy and data collection.

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Protecting Children from Social Media

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Know all social sites that your child is a part of it. Create rules of engagement on social sites that are built on being “accountable&# to you for their actions-A 3 strikes rule is not a bad idea. Review the privacy settings in your child’s social networks and map it to their profiles and then review their profiles.

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Ashley Madison and the Case for In the Moment Marketing

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Think Bitcoins and Silk Road but in the name of cheating… For those in the know, this is just another notch in the belt of just how “nonprivate” your privacy is and how your data is, for wont of a better analogy, nothing more than sargassum seaweed. There’s a tribe and a site for everyone. Pun intended.

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