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Top Five: Social networks invest in quality news

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s must-know social media news for marketing and communications professionals includes headlines about Facebook’s attempt to clean up, support for journalism from Twitter and Google, the continuing importance of links in SEO and some new, clever features from LinkedIn. — SS . Photo by Sam Shavers.

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Top five: social networks are cleaning up their acts

Sherrilynne Starkie

Top five: social networks are cleaning up their acts. In this week's top 5 must-know social media news, we see major social networks rolling out initiatives to protect privacy and increase transparency. The post Top five: social networks are cleaning up their acts appeared first on Sherrilynne Starkie.

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Facebook scandal: The dawn of a new era in social media marketing?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Issues about trust, transparency and ethics in social media are being discussed around many dinner tables this week. Facebook’s so-called data breach is dominating news cycles, and the story is making people more aware of how the social network uses their data. This is not the end of social media marketing.

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Embarrassing updates in social media

Sherrilynne Starkie

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. Social Stalker Site Shames Those Who Say Silly Things in Public.

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Top Five Social Media Must Knows: The new Google News

Sherrilynne Starkie

Social media management platform Hootsuite has announced a global partnership with Pinterest to natively integrate the social networking platform into the Hootsuite platform. Facebook privacy: Survey suggests continuing US loyalty. Hootsuite announces integration with Pinterest. May 09, 2018. May 09, 2018.

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We don’t discuss politics on Facebook, right?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Well this advice seems to hold true according a new survey by the Pew Research Center ’s Internet & American Life Project that on social networking sites. Postings on social networking sites reveal surprises for many users when it comes to the political views of their friends. Boomers flock to social networks.

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Path: the sequel

Sherrilynne Starkie

Well over a year ago a new social network, Path, was launched. It was positioned as ‘personal network’ and friends were limited to just 50, a number based on the psychology theories that 150 is the maximum number of social relationships any human can handle. This feature might ruffle some privacy feathers.

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