Jun 11, 2009 -
Hey, good news! Facebook now lets you use usernames in the URL for your Facebook page, rather than the series of crazy numbers to distinguish your personal URL. Why am I a little unenthused?
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May 21, 2009 -
There are a lot of cute songs about Internet love, but few are actual great songs you'd listen to more than once — the kinds of songs that get stuck in your head, that you desperately want to download so you can listen to over and over. "I Heart You Online," sung by two beautiful, angel-faced and accented girls and accompanied by the ukulele (the unofficial meme instrument), is the rare song that is a wonderful tune in its own right. I predict big things for these girls.
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May 18, 2009 -
Cataloging your trillions of social networking accounts makes cleaning out your packed closet feel like a walk in the park with an ice cream. There's TeamSugar, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Flickr, Picasa, Twitter and every other revolutionary community you signed up for to spy on friends and explore the digital landscape. I don't have enough mental bandwidth or time to keep up with every community, but I have come up with a few tricks for keeping up with all my friends across the world wide web.
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May 14, 2009 -
When the iPhone came out everyone went bananas over the so-called iDating phenomenon, so it's no shock someone has found a way to sneak Twitter into the online love game. Case in point — radaroo, a new Twitter dating app. You tweet your gender, preferred date's gender, zip code, and a series of interests.
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May 12, 2009 -
Have you noticed anything different about Facebook? Yesterday when I was checking out my profile, a new chat pop up appeared showing me all of my groups of friends. I didn't think much of it and then I realized — new filter functionality in chat — yippee!
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Apr 23, 2009 -
I may have breathed an audible sigh of relief when I heard that Google was launching Google Profiles, a hub for all your social networks.
Over the years, I've signed up for about 800 social networks (a rough estimate), have only consciously deleted one profile, and am only using an amount I can count on my hands at any given moment.
I'd love to claim that the high number of networks I belong to is purely an occupational hazard, but I tend to get excited about new networks regardless — there's always some cool new angle.
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Mar 21, 2009 -
I turned to Facebook a few years ago when MySpace had become too much of a friend request circus; I realized I wanted to have more personal connections with the kind of information I shared. However, with Facebook's new Twitter-like layout and option to share with everyone, I'm starting to feel like user privacy is not such a priority for the gargantuan site anymore.
On the note of privacy, though, I will say that I am letting in some new Facebook users I hadn't thought I ever would when I joined.
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Mar 11, 2009 -
Having some trouble keeping your myriad social networks organized? Or maybe you've gotten so addicted to Twitter that you're forgetting to update your LinkedIn account (guilty).
Though Cliqset is sort of a new social network to join — hear me out — it will organize those you're currently in, so you can have one hub to visit.
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Feb 25, 2009 -
I'm Hurt Helen wrote in yesterday asking for advice and venting her frustration about the fact that her boyfriend hasn't changed his online profile from single to dating, and I've got to say, I'd be pretty bummed if I were in her shoes too.
Using online social networks is definitely the easiest way to update your friends and family about what's going on in your life, but broadcasting your relationship status to the world wide web is a pretty big deal. Being ready to take that step is a personal decision, so do tell, how long do you usually wait to change your profile when entering into a new relationship?
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Retweeting, or copying a tweet from someone and sharing it with your followers, is a major ego booster for the originator (and central to the whole viral content sharing power of Twitter). But, you must do it on the up and up with the "RT" and not just take inspiration from someone else's isms.
A friend recently admitted she essentially tries to one-up the Facebook status updates from the many bright minds on her friend's list, which often means borrowing their original pun, joke or idea and playing it off as her own.