If you’re a Facebook user, are you subscribed to Zuck, Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerburg? From the looks of it, more than five million people are subscribed because he converted his Facebook fans to subscribers. Zuckerberg may already have more subscribers than your favorite celebrity! To see if you’re subscribed, go to your profile and click [...]
If you’ve got a smart phone and post pictures of yourself or your kids online, you may want to disable your location (GPS) settings for your camera. Watch the video below to see why changing your settings could be important for your safety and for that of your family/children. (You may need to scroll down [...]
I’ve FINALLY gotten into Google+ (gplus.to/cherylsmith) and now I’m ready to share the love. (This after receiving two invites last week and was still denied access because of beta blah blah. What’s up with that?) So, I sent my first invite to Peter, because, what good is Google+ if the love of your life isn’t in? Next [...]
I’m not sure how long this feature has been available, but I just learned today that I can now leave a Facebook conversation (i.e. private message sent to all 500 of your friend’s friends and you get to read each and every reply). Here’s how. Step 1 When you’re in the message that says between [...]
I just came across this great post about Facebook security and a short (1 min. 49 sec.) video on how-to enable HTTPS/SSL encryption on your Facebook account. Blah blah blah. Whatever. You don’t have to understand it to do it. Bottom line, changing this setting makes your account secure (in theory, because apparently, even Zuckerburg [...]
I’ve just done a thorough review of our teens’ Facebook settings. Yes, I took my own advice. One of our teens had several applications which needed to be deleted, but it took us forever to figure out where to do it. After several failed attempts, I finally searched the Facebook blog and found this: I [...]
Read Write Web reported on Sunday that Facebook is now giving Third Party Application Developers access to your phone number and address. You can read the full story here. You really should! Stop the presses. Check your permissions and be sure you know what you’re agreeing to when you sign up for all those applications [...]
Have you seen those Facebook 2010 review applications ? There are at least two that I’ve seen lately. As I understand it, both apps search and analyze your status updates. One spits out a Reader’s Digest condensed version of every update you’ve made during the year. The other highlights your top three words and also [...]
Over the last few months, I’ve noticed people commenting about politics on social media platforms with increasing frequency. People are sharing links and opinions on Facebook and Twitter left and right. Duh! It is election time. This is, of course, not new. Obama used social media to his advantage and forever changed the way candidates [...]
I think I’m depressed. Not in the, “I can’t get out of bed” sense of the word. And maybe “depressed” isn’t exactly right. Maybe it’s just a funk. Whatever you call it, for the last few months, I seem to be stuck. Stuck in the “what to do next” phase. I don’t have a sense [...]
