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"Like any social tool, Facebook needs to be worked in order to achieve specific marketing, event or fundraising goals. Yes, you need to have a an effective Facebook Page where fans can easily interact (see “11 Quick Tips to Enhance Your Facebook Fan Page” by @franswaa). And yes, you need to have compelling content.

However, even with all this, if you don’t consistently nurture your Facebook relationships, you’ll end up with visitors — potential fans — wondering, “Are they still in business?” "

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"Sometimes, social networking is just a bit too social. If you're feeling vulnerable on Facebook, the web's biggest social hangout, you can easily take control over who can see your information.

Facebook gives you quite a bit of say over who in your circle sees what. If you don't want to share any information anymore, the site also lets you remove yourself completely. Read on to learn how to take back your privacy. "

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"The new privacy controls include some great changes, and some not-so-great changes, but here are five privacy issues you should know about as these settings roll out across Facebook. "

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"Our conclusion? These new "privacy" changes are clearly intended to push Facebook users to publicly share even more information than before. Even worse, the changes will actually reduce the amount of control that users have over some of their personal data."

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"New and simpler privacy tools allow you to restrict every piece of information in your profile, control who can see just about anything you post, and more. Following an open letter from Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerber, the social networking giant unveiled the long-expected enhancements late Wednesday.

Key highlights include simpler privacy settings, more granular privacy controls for your profile and friends list, and the ability to control privacy on anything you post. A new transition tool greets you when you log in to Facebook, taking you through a three-step process where you review the changes and update your settings."

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"Facebook announced this morning that its 350 million users will be prompted to make their status messages and shared content publicly visible to the world at large and search engines. It's a move we expected but the language used in the announcement is near Orwellian. The company says the move is all about helping users protect their privacy and connect with other people, but the new default option is to change from "old settings" to becoming visible to "everyone.""

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The plan we've come up with is to remove regional networks completely and create a simpler model for privacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of your friends, or everyone.

We're adding something that many of you have asked for — the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create or upload. In addition, we'll also be fulfilling a request made by many of you to make the privacy settings page simpler by combining some settings. If you want to read more about this, we began discussing this plan back in July."

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"You’ve always been careful to protect information on your Facebook profile. Your political views and wall are only available to your closest friends. Your photo albums show you sipping tea in tweed jackets – those photos of you playing beer pong were scrubbed long ago. But you’ve never been too concerned that anyone who Googles you can see a list of your friends. After all, what can a list of your friends tell a stranger about you anyway?

A lot, it turns out. Fast Company just published a fascinating piece on its blog about the mapping of social network data, a growing facet of the practice called Social Media Monitoring (SMM). SMM is the logical confluence of two trends: an advertising-supported Internet that has a voracious appetite for information about consumers in order to deliver targeted ads and a rapid increase in the amount of information individuals make available online, mainly through social networking. As CDT Vice President Jim Dempsey told Fast Company, “It's only logical that marketers would be looking for value in that information.”

Fast Company focused on Rapleaf, a San Francisco-based company that consolidates publicly available information about your Facebook friends, Twitter followers, and Amazon.com book reviews. Marketers' assessments of you can be influenced not only by what you reveal online, but also by what is known about your online friends, such as their purchasing habits and credit scores. "

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"When the President of the United States warns schoolchildren to watch what they say and do on Facebook, you know that we've got a problem...and it's not one limited to the U.S.'s borders, either. People everywhere are mindlessly over-sharing on the world's largest social network, without a second thought as to who's reading their posts or what effect it could have on them further down the road. For example, did you know that 30% of today's employers are using Facebook to vet potential employees prior to hiring? In today's tough economy, the question of whether to post those embarrassing party pics could now cost you a paycheck in addition to a reputation. (Keep that in mind when tagging your friends' photos, too, won't you?)
But what can be done? It's not like you can just quit Facebook, right? No - and you don't have to either. You just need to take a few precautions.

Unbeknownst to most mainstream Facebook users, the social network actually offers a slew of privacy controls and security features which can help you batten down the hatches, so to speak. If used properly, you'll never have to worry about whether you should friend the boss and your mom. You can friend anyone you want while comfortable in the knowledge that not everyone gets to see everything you post. "

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"We've seen how social media like Twitter and Facebook can be used as part of a winning election strategy, but the same tools don't seem to influence elected officials or public policy.

Maybe it's because elected officials are rarely on Facebook or Twitter themselves -- those posts you see are from their proxies. Or maybe there's something different about the dynamic when it comes to generating momentum for or against a given law -- it's easier to get excited about a person than a law -- but there's also more fragmentation in cyberspace.

What I mean is, it's pretty easy to coalesce electronic activity -- both for and against -- around a particular candidate. Particularly when a social-media-savvy manager is running a campaign, it's fairly easy to ensure that the "official" Facebook page or Twitter account gets all the hits.

But it’s very different with issues, even big ones, because no one owns an issue the same way a campaign manager owns a candidate. "

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He might get there. He also posted a a group link on the Facebook suggestions page and is considering pushing forward a petition.

A woman in Nebraska who joined the group seemed to realize the youth of its leader and wrote on the group's wall, "THIS ISN'T A FACEBOOK ADMIN PAGE, THIS IS A KID!!!" But she was drowned out by thousands of other posters who didn't seem to mind at all that the group leadership is an eighth-grader.

Jonathan did not start the group, but joined it a day after it was started because he disliked the changes Facebook made. He noticed that the creator of the group, someone he didn't know, had quit. Believing in the cause -- and perhaps sensing an opportunity -- "I just pushed a button to make myself the admin, and that was it," he says. (Smart kid.) Now he's the leader of one of the fastest-growing things online. "I get a lot of friend requests from people I don't know," he laments. "

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"Have a Facebook page or creating a new one? Do yourself a favor and be proactive in setting your page up, so users can find you when they are looking. Too often, companies and brands don’t take the proper steps to be found and have to make adjustments in order to show in Facebook search. Whether you are setting up your first page, or tweaking an old one, the following tips can help you rise to the top of the search results."

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Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. They did this with a software program that looked at the gender and sexuality of a person’s friends and, using statistical analysis, made a prediction. The two students had no way of checking all of their predictions, but based on their own knowledge outside the Facebook world, their computer program appeared quite accurate for men, they said. People may be effectively “outing” themselves just by the virtual company they keep.

“When they first did it, it was absolutely striking - we said, ‘Oh my God - you can actually put some computation behind that,’ ” said Hal Abelson, a computer science professor at MIT who co-taught the course. “That pulls the rug out from a whole policy and technology perspective that the point is to give you control over your information - because you don’t have control over your information.”

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Protect Your Privacy on Facebook and Twitter
Here's how to safeguard your identity and your personal data in the age of the social Web.

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Smokescreen is a privacy game for kids, it runs them through a series of clever online missions that serve to explain how information disclosed on social sites like Facebook can come back and bite you in the ass:

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Unbeknownst to most mainstream Facebook users, the social network actually offers a slew of privacy controls and security features which can help you batten down the hatches, so to speak. If used properly, you'll never have to worry about whether you should friend the boss and your mom. You can friend anyone you want while comfortable in the knowledge that not everyone gets to see everything you post.

The problem in implementing these privacy options is that they're just too confusing for most non-tech savvy people to handle. And often, folks don't want to bother to take the time to learn. To simplify the process, we're offering five easy steps you can take today to help make your Facebook experience safer, more secure, and more private.

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We all know that employers are getting savvy to social networking sites and the information we share online. But what you may not know is that a recently conducted survey shows that nearly 1 in 2 companies are doing their online due diligence for prospective job candidates.

This according to research firm Harris Interactive, who was commissioned by CareerBuilder.com and surveyed 2,667 HR professionals, finding that 45% of them use social networking sites to research job candidates, with an additional 11% planning to implement social media screening in the very near future.

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Asked by one student how he could become President someday, Obama issued a warning about Facebook. “I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on FacebookFacebookFacebook, because in the YouTubeYouTubeYouTube age whatever you do, it will be pulled up again later somewhere in you

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Social media, it’s great for narcissists, analysts, marketers, and brands. But did you know that it’s perfect for overprotective and nosy parents? In fact, according to Today Now, Facebook (Facebook) and Twitter (Twitter) are revolutionizing how parents stalk their kids in college.

Of course, Today Now is actually a mock-news show by The Onion that parodies shows like the Today Show, but their new video is a must-watch for any avid social media user. It’s hard not to appreciate the humor in the utter honesty and exuberance of guest expert, Gloria, or E-MOM, who talks about how to use the internet to monitor your child’s every move.

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What’s the right way to tactfully avoid someone? It’s generally agreed that the best thing to do is to leave them in Facebook Purgatory for a long time, by simply not acting on the request. After a few months, you can go click Ignore. By then, the other party will have gotten the clue that you’d rather be Facebook strangers.

Facebook’s customer support team has prepared a new video, below, that explains both sides of the friend invitation process.

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