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On Trust and Children in Social Networks

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1) Not 2 weeks prior to this happening, I was on television and in front of a live audience, as well as members of the school board, explaining why I did not see the point in children (freshman to sophomores on down) using Facebook, let alone a social network at all. Here’s 4 of them. They’re too young. One of many.

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Why Social Media Will Challenge Marketers in 2019

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In 2007 when I joined Twitter, those were not front of mind questions for those of us using the social network for the first time. Now it’s about so many “other” things besides you and yet, in 2019, it still comes back to you, particularly when we have to synthesize the latest batch of Facebook data privacy breaches.

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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: Children evade social websites’ age limits. Stay tuned for the wiki.

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We didn’t mean that transparent…

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Believe In Privacy. What Do New Facebook Features Mean for Your Privacy? NJ Principal Asks Parents To Ban Social Networking. Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline. We care about our privacy. We just didn’t realize how much social networks didn’t.

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Some Social Tools You Should Know About

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NutshellMail users social network updates so they don’t have to login and check. MemoLane is a “virtual scrapbook” generated by a user’s social media history. It also allows users to search their social history across multiple networks.

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The Takeaway from Social Media in 2010

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. Online privacy means a lot to us, but for a majority of us, it’s only important when we know our privacy has been invaded. In social networks and social media, every time we join a new shiny network, or register for something online, we give up a little piece of our privacy, like a sculptor chipping away at a piece of marble.

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

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From one of our weekly Tweetchats hosted by JD Lasica on Facebook and Privacy , this link was shared: Facebook Backlash Sparks Transparency Tools which has a couple of really good tools in the article. This has some potential now that Ning has constructed pay walls; Add a forum or social network to your blog with BlogFrog.

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