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Social Networks and Privacy

Janet Fouts

I’m a bit more pragmatic than some of my co-panelists on what privacy we can actually have in this day and age. I’m trying to keep my focus in this case on activists and their issues with privacy online. You can’t mention activism and social media without James Karl Buck coming up. Good stuff here too.

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Facebook Groups: Privacy Bait and Switch?

Almost Savvy

Not only have I heard and seen a zillion blog posts and news reports about the latest Facebook changes in the hours following the press conference, many of the posts were even published during the press conference – all indicative of the frenzy to cover all things Facebook. Or so it seems.

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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 -. One of the conference speakers @AlexKilpatrick talked about small and large audiences. I’m live blogging from the Augmented Reality Event conference in Santa Clara the Viewdle application so that’s all for now folks!

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4 Emerging Social Media Trends to Watch in 2020

Social Media Strategies Summit

According to data from Pew Research , messaging apps dominated social networks in 2019. The top messaging apps now boast nearly 5 billion monthly active users combined (compared to the combined social networks which top out around 3 billion ). 3 Social commerce will come into maturity. Source: Pinterest.

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4 Emerging Social Media Platforms To Watch In 2019

Social Media Strategies Summit

Whether you’ve noticed or not, Gen-Z has also already made its mark social media. They crave extremely personalized experiences, but also fiercely protect their privacy. Gen-Z favors ephemeral platforms over highly-produced social media, changing the way marketers create and think about content.

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Is Facebook’s Social Graph Beacon 2.0?

Socialized

With its incredible growth (200 million to 400 million users in the last 12 months), and announcement at its April 21 F8 developer conference of new capabilities, Facebook seems to have become, as Chris O’Brien of the San Jose Mercury News says, “the most important company on the Web.”. All of this raises interesting privacy concerns.

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Facebook's Need for Better Communication

Social Media Marketing

With Mark Zuckerberg being named the Time Person of the Year for 2010, you would think that there would be a little more thought that goes into the company's approach to privacy, major UI changes, and how those are communicated to the very people those changes affect. He managed to leave the group , but not before the damage was done.

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