All Posts Tagged Social Network

What social networking needs is less PR

January 8th, 2007 | No comments

I hope online predators are too busy hiding from the cops to read the latest Pew study. The premise remains – kids are smarter than their parents think. But maybe what we need is a little misinformation now and then to quell the concern. I’d like to see a study released that says “85% of [...]

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Where social networks and web threats really clash

August 2nd, 2006 | No comments

With all the talk about social networks – the inherent safety issues of “going public,” the politics that won’t help, and the sneaky buggers taking advantage of the situation, we’ve forgotten to take a step back and see what might be headed this way so we can prepare. You have some much in your face, [...]

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Spam has new venues (or spam suffers from boredom)

July 7th, 2006 | No comments

According to MessageLabs, spammers are growing bored with POP/SMTP and are shifting their marketing time to web-based venues. Instant messaging (nothing new), blogs, and social networking communities (it “comes with the territory”), makes this kind of a bore in the way of announcements. Not even kind of.

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Social networks annoy, period

November 9th, 2005 | No comments

An old Friendster user is calling the service annoying, as the company seems to be resending old invites to potential users. I stay away from the online social network scene for two reasons: 1) I am anti-social, and 2) I think all those emails I get everytime someone posts something are annoying too. Speaking of [...]

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