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The Next Big Thing in Social Networks

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How much information are you willing to make public in order to improve your social networking experience? What capabilities might the next social networks have to “improve&# our intimacy with our online friends? Pollygraf, as its name implies, is the truthful social network.

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The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks

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Everyone’s talking about the launch of Togetherville , a social network designed to bring parents and their kids together with the goal of learning responsible social networking. In other words, they are not using a social network. The idea is not to teach them to use social networks.

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10 Laws of Social Networking Terms of Service

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With Instagram under fire for changes to its TOS (Terms of Service), I thought it would be useful to review The 10 Laws of Social Networking Terms of Service: Your content is not yours. Social networks and media outlets own more of your content than they ever have before, and always.

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Forget the Social Network, It’s Just Etiquette

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A piece on Forbes.com titled Are You Practicing Proper Social Networking Etiquette? The article goes on to ask, “(is) it wise to accept a colleague or higher-up as a ‘friend’&# on a social network? This question in the previous paragraph involves both social networking issues and pre-Web 2.0

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Social Network Mass Unfollowing is an Empty Gesture

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Recently a couple of people told me they were thinking about unfollowing all of their social network friends and starting over. Sometimes it’s done as a “grand gesture&# to convey to the world that the quality of social network relationships matters more than the quantity. Just keep it to yourself.

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Webinar: Practical Social Networking

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Along with Patrick Schwerdtfeger, author of Webify Your Business , I’ll be participating in a free webinar on Practical Social Networking this Wednesday, October 21, 5:00 p.m. More information is available on the Social Networking 101 web site , or you can register at no charge. to 6:00 p.m.

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Could you go social-network-free for one day a week?

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What if the preferences for your favorite social network allowed you to pick one or more “blackout days” during which you could not log on? Could you get by for a full 24 hours, or more, with no access to Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed or any of your other favorite social media tools? The API would be shut down, too.).