01.07.10

Unfriended by Facebook?

Posted by Stacy in Business, Digital Marketing, Digital Publishing, News, Security, Social Media

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Facebook Community Council: Citizen’s Patrol
Using users to monitor the facebooksphere for ‘ethically offensive material.’

I, for one, love Facebook. Yes, it has its glitches here and there and can quickly become like a DVR inbox of “to-friends” or “to communicate” lists, but all in all, it has eliminated the need for me to spend 30 minutes on the phone catching up with each friend every once in a while.

On-going privacy setting tweaks aren’t so bad, though it helps to stay on top of managing them for personal and business pages. Otherwise, all your posts and information could potentially go über-viral. At moments I do wonder if all my personal photos (and those taken of me in public venues) are tagged with deliciously insightful personal information and stored away on some server that could be purchased by the government one day (thank goodness I am pure and innocent).

Earlier this year, Facebook took some flack for not removing pages posted by the Holocaust Denial Movement. So when the social monolith announced its Facebook Community Council—whose goal…

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11.06.09

Post-Twitter Hack: Social Engagement Guidelines

Posted by Stacy in Business, Digital Marketing, Digital Publishing, Security, Social Media

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A follow-up to yesterday’s post on our Twitter phishing hack. Here’s how we all pick up and proceed with caution. What to do next? Our Own Little Social Engagement Guidelines (aka: How to Clean Up and Not Feel Dirty After Getting Hacked on Twitter) 1. Clean thyself. Follow the Twitter Compromised Account settings changes. 2. Notify your partners. Immediately put a status message warning about it. 3. Don’t rush. Take time to read messages and notice URLs. Gregg Jaffe of Big Teeth Productions says “Those of us getting hacked are not the type to fall for a Nigerian million dollar bank account email, but with the speed at which Twitter travels…Read more »

11.05.09

Twitter Phishing Hacks: What to Do

Posted by Stacy in Digital Marketing, News, Security, Social Media

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Twitter hacks have been on the rise since October and here are the things to do to protect yourself or recover from a hack immediately: - log out of twitter - clear your cache - close your browser - log back in - change your password - deactivate suspect connections. We feel dirty cause we got hacked on Twitter. How do clean-living, intelligent, digital-savvy folks get hacked? It happens. Our wake-up call this morning was mobile notifications that we (but not us) sent a Twitter DM about an IQ quiz with an unusual shortened link. Thankfully, our posts are about technology and web trends, not IQ quizzes, so most people recognized…Read more »

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