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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. — SS. — SS . Photo by Sam Shavers.

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On Trust and Children in Social Networks

Direct Marketing Observations

1) Not 2 weeks prior to this happening, I was on television and in front of a live audience, as well as members of the school board, explaining why I did not see the point in children (freshman to sophomores on down) using Facebook, let alone a social network at all. 4) My daughter saw the event on television. One of many.

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Social Networking Friends vs. Real Life Friends | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

How secure should I feel when using Facebook’s privacy settings to determine which groups of friends can or cannot see particular photos? Social Networking Lines Get Blurred With the unprecedented growth of Facebook, it has become the largest social networking platform by far.

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Just Because We're Social Networking “Friends” Doesn't Mean I'll.

Almost Savvy

If this happened at a live networking event, the conversation would go something like this: “Hi. Related articles which may interest you: How Facebook Hurt My Feelings Social Networking Friends vs. Real Life Friends Happy Holidays! Uh…ewww. My name is Irene. No one enjoys being taken advantage of.

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Path: the sequel

Sherrilynne Starkie

Well over a year ago a new social network, Path, was launched. It was positioned as ‘personal network’ and friends were limited to just 50, a number based on the psychology theories that 150 is the maximum number of social relationships any human can handle. This feature might ruffle some privacy feathers.

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The Facebook Conversions API: Tips for Implementation

Ignite Social Media

A pixel or tag is a snippet of code placed on a website that allows social platforms to collect event and conversion data via the browser. For more, see our 2020 article, Growing Privacy Concerns Put Social Networks’ Targeting at Risk.) However, the Facebook pixel is still able to report on those events right now.

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Facebook and hashtags: at long last

Sherrilynne Starkie

Up until know, it’s been almost impossible to see into the world’s most popular social network to gain insight that could be crucial in developing social media strategies and campaigns. The move makes Facebook altogether more searchable and integrates searches with other platforms which also use hashtags (most social networks!).

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