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How did you feel when you got your own first Follow Friday mention? Its pretty good feeling, right? I think that a Twitter Follow Friday mention is like receiving a Golden Globe nomination. A Follow Friday where you are mentioned with a comment as to WHY you should be followed, is like an Oscar nod. [...]
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Have you ever been on Facebook, start a chat and then realize its not them online but their better half on your friend’s wall instead? If you are logged in to your spouse’s page (because you don’t have a page of your own), and you see my chat note pop up please take this advice:
Yesterday I blogged here about Friend Request Manners. Well, not an hour later I get this message (see below) on Facebook. This is why you need to think & write, before you connect. You will see that names removed for privacy. I wish I could loudly display names of those abusing the etiquette or have [...]
Would you send a birthday card to someone without a personal introduction at the beginning? And then forget to sign your name, assuming they know who you are? That’s what its like when you Facebook Friend someone and you don’t say why you are connecting. True, sometimes you know them already so well that you [...]
Where is the most unusual place you have ever posted to Facebook or Twitter? The bathroom? In line at the store? In Bed? During a job interview? While driving? In the ambulance? During your mugshot? How about the Intensive Care Unit? Phone Rings. “Cara, Its Dad. ..Dr says it bad… What are your last words [...]
Rude Awakening #2: Kids know more about social media than us! (Could this be true? Do you care?) Here’s my thought process: I’ve been working on launching the Virginia Beach chapter of www.SocialMediaClub.org because I dig their “If You Know It, Share It” tag line. Picture events where all walks of life hang out [...]
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I daydream that when some people log into Facebook they are ejected from their chairs, flying through the roof into space . There. I said it. I feel better now. While reading an article about the first case of a Facebook Bully arrest I started thinking of the things people do to abuse it. Bullying [...]
Did you see my last blog video interview “Swimming Against the Tide? Part I”? Now read below and let me know if you’ve encountered or identify with these types: Life Guard people say: “Yikes! I don’t want anyone knowing where I am , what I think or to see pictures of my family” Sunscreen will [...]
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