You Are No Longer Anonymous Online

Social media has given individuals the chance to join global conversations and comment on any range of topics. However, some prefer to surf the Internet anonymously, and would rather protect their online privacy by hiding behind screen names or usernames when leaving comments on a blog, news article, forum, or video. While you might think [...]

Privacy and Facebook Facial Recognition

Back in June, Facebook shocked the world when it announced its acquisition of Israeli-based facial recognition software startup face.com. The company’s technology was already used by Facebook to help suggest photo tags but the acquisition led to many questions from Facebook users and privacy advocates. Users want to know whether people who aren’t friends will be [...]

Social Media and Privacy

Pew recently released some interesting findings about social media, which show that more people are taking control of their online reputation management. Deleting Friends One interesting stat shows that 63% of respondents have deleted people from their “friends” list, up from 56% in 2009. 67% of women say they have deleted friends, compared to 58% [...]

Twitter Clean Up

As a follow-up to our popular post, Clean up Your Online Profile, we have created a blog series about cleaning up online profiles. Today we will provide tips for a successful: Twitter Clean Up The major social media networks have often been described in this way: Facebook is what you use to keep in touch [...]

Marketing with LinkedIn

As a follow-up to our popular post, Clean up Your Online Profile, we have created a blog series about cleaning up online profiles.  Today’s post focuses on cleaning up your LinkedIn so that you will achieve effective: Marketing with LinkedIn The internet has completely changed the way we socialize, with Facebook and Twitter being some of the [...]

Cleaning up Facebook

As a follow-up to our popular post, Clean up Your Online Profile, we have created a blog series about cleaning up online profiles. Today’s topic:  Cleaning up Facebook                Facebook started as a site for college kids to socialize with their friends, but these days it is not uncommon for [...]