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People and businesses are so hung up on the social buttons that are both placed on sites and social networks that they often get deterred from posting or often the morale is deflated since the numbers are not inflated. Understandably, your efforts of keeping your social activities active is time you do not want wasted and relying on numbers to be your be all or end all can be a big mistake. Everyone wants recognition for a job well done or even a task that is done at all. We all like to see a result to what we spent time investing in, from blog posts, sharing photos, questions, status updates and anything…

The latest Joy of Tech comic from Geek Culture hits many people in today’s economy close to home. It’s all fun and games until it happens to you and companies are going to extreme measures to make sure that the people they lay off don’t go and bad mouth them on social media. Opinions are often more powerful than facts and the power of social media allows people to spread their opinions in different ways today….

Social media is changing the digital marketing landscape. In the past 5 years, social media has become a major component of online marketing, embraced by small business owners and major corporations. Social media has become such a major part of online marketing; some corporations create divisions in their corporations for the sole purpose of conducting marketing on social media outlets. In the past, social media websites were not considered important for marketing, now they are considered to be highly important. The importance placed on them has led to some websites being valued at billions…

You have probably been wondering when the best time to post online is, perhaps for your personal profile or on behalf of your business, yet the times keep changing and it is hard to remember the finest times to share content on the web. Don’t stress, I am here to tell you that there are peak moments on certain days of the week and yes, even particular hours are emphasized due to social behavior, but to not let this constrain you or be the only times you feel the need to post. People are there, so go ahead and share. …

Okay, so perhaps the title sounds a little negative and normally I don’t like going to the Darkside, unless there are jelly doughnuts. However, I feel as though social sites like Facebook, Twitter and now even Google+ have people making the sites feel negative, or perhaps it is just the way it makes me feel, but there has got to be others out there that feel somewhat like I do. I am talking about the “like if you agree” or “please retweet this” posts; just typing them here makes my stomach turn. I get that social signals are rising and sites like Empire Avenue, Klout, PeerIndex and Kred all make…

Have you noticed the increase of pictures on Social Networks as of late? Google+ users have pretty much been doing this since the social network was still closed to the public. However, Facebook users have taken the picture sharing up a notch since that is what many people seem to be sharing these days. I am not complaining, in fact I personally part-take in posting pictures since learning that pictures that are directly uploaded to the site are preferred by the Facebook algorithm, more so than links. In fact this states true for anything that is organically added to the site like a status update or…

Searching on Facebook can be a nightmare when looking for a brand or especially when searching for a person with a popular name. You could spend hours trying to find that recognizable face in a profile picture with your fingers crossed that they actually use a picture of themselves as an avatar. If not, you are spent clicking on profiles hoping they haven’t set their privacy settings to “friends only” so you can creep their page and see if it is the person you are looking to reconnect with on Facebook. As addicting as this process can be for when you finally do find that person adrenaline pumps…

I wish I had used Quora more. I loved the idea and the interface was strong. It was one of those things that I always planned to do when I had time. Asking and answering questions is the ultimate format to transfer and expand knowledge, after all, and it’s an honorable pastime for someone who isn’t into water skiing or bar hopping. I just never got around to it. Now that Quora is getting into the passive-activity-broadcasting trend, I never will get around to it. Much like Facebook and other sites have been doing lately, Quora is going to let everyone know what you click. It doesn’t matter if you go into…

Facebook is becoming a little more translucent with your activities by allowing others to see what you are doing. Just a few months ago Facebook quietly began permitting its users to see if someone ignores your chat message by literally showing in the chat box that the message you wrote was seen with a timestamp. This means that the person on the other end either closed their browser or closed the chat box and therefore this triggers Facebook to believe that the person read your message. This can be a good thing to help with communication clarification in the written form, since it is at times difficult…

There seems to be a lot of surprise surrounding the amount of personal data that is being used by websites and social networks, as if all of a sudden this is new. Yes, Facebook in particular has received a lot of flak for its secrecy of using personal data for Marketing and Advertising purposes. The secrecy should be more upsetting than the fact that in this instance, Facebook uses personal data to substitute for dollars. Many ask why… the answer? Facebook is a business. As much as we (the users) like to think that Facebook is ours and arguably, we have helped build Facebook, since it is after all, a…