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Social You Should Know—April Social Media Updates

Ignite Social Media

A lot happened this month in social media with most of the news centered around the Facebook privacy scandal. What we learned from that experience is that many people in Congress do not understand how social networks work and that Facebook has a lot of action items to follow up on. Facebook Faced Congress.

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April Showers Bring May Social Updates

Ignite Social Media

Controversy around Facebook’s privacy data consumed the news in April but in May, new features and announcements brought less cloudy news and more updates to look out for. Like: Facebook’s new rating system. Social Media Today reported that Facebook will be testing a new rating system for brand pages.

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This Week in Social Media – 6/26/13

Social Media Marketing

Industry Social networks continue to expand globally, with nearly one in four people using social networks worldwide. Legal/Regulatory Federal Trade Commissioner Betsy Brill is calling for Congress to create new legislation around data privacy. When it comes to big data, sometimes the numbers can be misleading.

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What Could Kill Google and Facebook

Webbiquity SMM

One of the biggest complaints about Facebook is of course its constantly changing interface , and its convoluted privacy settings have also repeatedly come under fire (as have changes to its privacy settings ). Google not only accounts for 85% of all web searches but controls an astounding 44% of the global online advertising market.

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How Spying On Your Friends Causes Reevaluation of Endorsed Content

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reply Our Monmouth May 1, 2008 at 8:49 am Internet privacy concerns always make me think twice before I click. Frankly, opt in social media does not bother me more than the data government and corporate America is silently collecting. In one case because of privacy issues. Thanks Tamar. Great post.

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Dear Facebook Friends, You're Doing it Wrong

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In an effort to make Facebook data more public, Community Pages let people share ideas, thoughts, and their interests in a fully open forum. A religious institution using a personal profile which uses default privacy to broadcast information about its offerings. Honesty: Honor your privacy policy and terms of service.

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Want to Friend Me on Facebook? Please Use My Public Page or.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Despite the fact that Facebook has the most customizable privacy settings of all social networks (though we could argue with their effectiveness in a whole other post), people don’t like maintaining a “business&# identity on the same profile as their “personal&# (fun?) I’d be honored to have you join me.

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