Facebook’s privacy policy under scrutiny once again

Once again, Facebook’s privacy policy has been under scrutiny. This time it has been found to be in breach of Canadian law by holding on to users’ personal data indefinitely, even once they have deactivated their accounts.
This is not the first time that the issue of data rights has been raised in terms of social [...]

Being an open book could be risky for your career

According to an article on MyBroadband, job-seekers are being warned to avoid posting compromising photos and status updates, and even innocuous details like hobbies; political opinions; and personal lives, on social networking sites like Facebook as it is a growing trend for employers to routinely check potential employees’ backgrounds by doing online searches, sometimes even [...]

What’s hot and what’s not in social media

According to Abrams Research, which recently conducted a survey on the future of social media, Twitter is the best social media tool for business, pulling in 40% of the votes. This was followed by LinkedIn, then YouTube, and bringing in the rear with 15% was Facebook. However, the reverse was true when it came to [...]

Has internet killed the video star?

With the increasing popularity of social media platforms such as YouTube, there has been a change in the way media is consumed. In the 1980s, MTV revolutionised the way the world saw music by popularising music videos, and being one of the few mediums making such content available. However, according to a story on The [...]

The etiquette of defriending

When social networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn, began their rise to popularity, users seemed to race to add as many friends as possible, in an indiscriminate manner, perhaps out of curiosity to find out what acquaintances were up to, or maybe just to be seen as popular online. In this way, the [...]

Two simple steps to increase your blog traffic

Mack Collier of The Viral Garden recently wrote a post titled “Better post titles work, and here”s the proof”. He explained how the blog’s highest traffic received in a single day was 1 508 visitors, but on posting a story titled Six reasons why no one likes you online, the blog increased its [...]

When is too much enough? The status overload

Gino Cosme blogged about a topic close to my heart recently, titled “how many social networking profiles is enough“. In it, he says: There are so many social networking sites out there. MySpace; Bebo; Facebook; Xing; Twitter; LinkedIn; Second Life; Friendster; Digg – in fact, there are thousands of social networking sites on the internet. [...]