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Important Facebook News: Privacy Updates

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As you probably know, Facebook has been facing a barrage of complaints regarding their “public is the new norm&# approach to privacy which resulted in much of your/our content being made public by default. The feedback we heard from users was that in our efforts to innovate, some of our privacy settings h ad become confusing.

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Facebook Groups: Privacy Bait and Switch?

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How To Opt-Out of Social Ads on LinkedIn in 5 Clicks

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As much as I also adore Twitter and Facebook, LinkedIn is still the one place to get started building your brand and career online. I can hear you thinking that 5 is a lot of clicks to opt-out of anything regarding privacy. Would you like to see future privacy changes on LinkedIn communicated differently? Or did they?

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How Facebook Hurt My Feelings | Almost Savvy

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In the end, it turned out that somehow Facebook had totally screwed up her privacy settings and a bunch of her friends now had limited access. Still, it shocked me to see how a little check-box deep in the Facebook privacy settings led to my own feelings of self-doubt and rejection. Two things occurred to me: 1. Thanks Irene.

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What Was the Hottest Topic at LeWeb 2010?

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The issues surrounding Wikileaks and its release of mountains of sensitive information exist at the intersection of privacy, safety, security, technology, social media and politics. Facebook Groups: Privacy Bait and Switch? How Not to Use Twitter for Business (FroYo Edition) New Tool Makes My Email Work Harder and Smarter.

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New Tool Makes My Email Work Harder and Smarter

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It is amazing how much work and communication I get done through Facebook and Twitter, but email is still the reliable workhorse it always was. I don’t recognize her name because she follows me on Twitter as @bloggymama43. Stack Overflow and Twitter, as well as thousands of organisations’ public websites.

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Is Social Media is the Brussels Sprouts of the Internet?

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Yes, there are people who, by choice, do not have Facebook, Twitter or Google+ accounts. Though she has never used Facebook, she has extremely strong opinions about many aspects of the widely popular social networking site, ranging from privacy to rampant oversharing to the implicit meaning of the Like button. Judging from a distance.