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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. LinkedIn is a crucial platform for businesses.

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Five Things to Do About Facebook Privacy Other Than Closing Your Account

Socialized

Sure you’re ticked off about Facebook’s abuses of consumer privacy, but does closing your account accomplish anything? Facebook should not make it so hard to maintain personal privacy and should not make clandestine changes to its privacy settings. Read Facebook’s own Privacy page. Inform Your Friends.

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I've Used Bluesky for 6 Months – Here's What You Should Know

Buffer Social

Among them is Bluesky , which is a decentralized, invite-only social network built on an open-source protocol  (I’ll explain what this means even though I barely understand it myself). Bluesky is a decentralized social network created by Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter CEO who started it while still in the role.

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Has Social Media Killed Off Privacy?

Laurel Papworth

What with Tom Tom selling our GPS data to the police that then book us for speeding, and facial recognition connecting our faces to our social networks and the privacy implications that entails, are we thinking enough about the big issues in our rush to upload, tag and share content in online communities?

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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A member of my religious community disappeared. These terrifying statistics make me wonder if it’s time to change given that our privacy is starting to diminish. After having read the immensely resourceful book, The Facebook Effect , I’m starting to understand how our world is changing thanks to social networks.

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Facial Recognition, Privacy and Social Media

Laurel Papworth

This is what I was talking about in this post on privacy and facebook facial tagging and recognition -. This is how I interpret it: One to one – you stick your face in a webcam and the system recognises you. Facial recognition and pulling in status updates is live to the mobile phone camera, NOT on the computer!

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Sysomos Audience Moves Towards Measuring Social Media ROI

Dave Fleet

However, Audience really focuses in a different direction, providing tools that should pique the interest of your sales, marketing and community management folks alike. It does so by examining peoples’ previous web activity, including competitors’ websites, blogs, social networks and so on. Community management.

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