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Embarrassing updates in social media

Sherrilynne Starkie

Nicked from Marketing Pilgrim. ” The website sends search bots to crawl Facebook and Foursquare to find key words such as “hungover” and “cannabis” and divides the findings into four categories: “Who wants to get fired?”, Google’s new privacy policy. It happens all the time.

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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

Socialized

Changes announced today to Facebook’s privacy agreement suggest the company is about to flip the switch and add location-based capabilities to the social network. Some think this might mean the end for standalone location-based services like Foursquare and Brightkite. I don’t think so. I don’t think so. Wagers anyone?

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The 2012 Social Networking Privacy Policy

Webbiquity SMM

If you were to do a Google search for some of the top social networking sites , you’ll almost certainly stumble across a news story concerning privacy issues with user data. After an intense user backlash and a decline in numbers, Instagram pledged to readjust its terms to tighten up privacy. Guest post by Athena Newton.

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Third Grade Show and Tell: Online Privacy

Socialized

We ended up having a great conversation about online privacy, which was made all the more interesting by the students relating their experiences firsthand. I explained it was about social media (not a gripping topic for most nine-year-olds). Online marketers are asking, because the youth market is huge.

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The Takeaway from Social Media in 2010

Direct Marketing Observations

. Online privacy means a lot to us, but for a majority of us, it’s only important when we know our privacy has been invaded. In social networks and social media, every time we join a new shiny network, or register for something online, we give up a little piece of our privacy, like a sculptor chipping away at a piece of marble.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

Socialized

Here are my five social media predictions for 2010. A few AR applications have been rolled out by progressive marketers and other organizations this year, but 2010 will be the year AR explodes. Some of the most interesting applications will be outside of marketing and promotion.

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. It’s why a search for “social media sucks&# on Google yields almost 12 million results (so much for my SEO on this post, oh well).