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99 Days of Freedom Experiment- Quit Facebook and report happiness

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Would you be happier if you were off of Facebook? This Dutch nonprofit initiative has created a website, 99 days of freedom, and is asking people to try their own experiment. My own kids left FB years ago. On their own. They felt like the fights, the gossip and the drama was not worth it. All three of them say they are quite happy to not be on Facebook. Most of their friends are not on anymore either. The young people who still use it, tell me it for family and to keep in touch with their grandparents and family. How they use it has changed dramatically. The young people I am speaking with are college age and high school. Most of them use Instagram and snapchat to communicate now. Facebook paid one billion dollars for Instagram in 2012, so they found a way to get back and keep those kids who have migrated to Instagram. Do you ever wonder what life is like without Facebook? In response to Facebook’s controversial mood experiment involving some 700,000 unwitting users, we present you 99 Days of Freedom; an online study on how life without Facebook impacts user happiness. Joining is very simple: follow our three […]

How do you feel about Facebook secret psychology experiment on users’ emotions?

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In many ways, Facebook owns you. When you clicked that little TOS box, (terms of service), you agreed to let Facebook use your content and photos. Now they have done something that I feel is ethically wrong. You and your friends, and followers may of been part of an experiment conducted by manipulating your feeds. Facebook manipulated over 683,000 of it’s users feeds to see how people reacted to either positive or negative posts from their friends. Conducting secret psychology experiment on users’ emotions. You can add this worry to your lack of control and privacy online with Facebook. Facebook has conducted a secret massive psychology experiment on its users to find out how they respond to positive and negative messages – without telling participants. The article above is from the Telegraph, UK and it is quite detailed. If you would like to read it, it has what is known as a “paywall” in front of it. The work around for that is open your browser in privacy mode or with Chrome, it is called incognito, so that is a good tip for you today. How to read protected articles online. Facebook manipulated peoples feeds. Then they then monitored the users’ response, to see whether […]

Do you use Twitter? Sometimes fun things do happen.

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Twitter. Ah twitter. Say it all in a #hash tag in under a 130 characters. But say what? And say it to whom? I am still not sure what I am suppose to do with twitter. I feel like a small fish in a very big sea. Sometimes though a fun thing happens, and you realize maybe the world is not so big and vast when it comes to people touching other people. I love Masterchef Australia, and then I started watching Masterchef UK season 9, and I just finished it last night. It was quite enjoyable. The cooking was amazing. One of the contestants you could not help but like and root for is a talented young lady named Natalie Coleman. She is a lovely person, humble, hard working, sweet and close to her family. She feeds her Grandpa and Uncle, to help look after them and because she loves them. She tries out her recipes on her Grandpa. He must love that. She is a creative and talented cook. She seemed to have things so well thought out. I thought it must be her career in finance, she was so orderly and always made sense with her food. […]

Yahoo buys Tumblr. User Community Reacts. What is Tumblr?

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What is Tumblr? Tumblr sold to Yahoo. Yahoo buys Tumblr, community upset. What do you think? Is this a good or bad thing?
Tumblr and Yahoo, click here to read more.

Failed Social Media Sites,Google products graveyard.

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Failed social media companies, and google product graveyard. chronicling failed Google products and social media failures. Click here now to see the list.

Is Twitter dying or dead? Why Biz Stone the founder has left the company

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Will twitter die? Is twitter dying? What do you think? Who is really using Twitter today? When Twitter started, I seriously thought it would never catch on, ( but I also thought DVD players would not replace VHS, so I definitely can miss the boat big time.) Now wherever you go, any conference, any “Internet Marketing” type of gathering, you are told to use twitter and other “social media”. I even signed up and have been using Tweetdeck, since Tee Morris taught a class with me at the San Francisco Writers Conference on Social Media. (Update: Tweetdeck was absorbed by Twitter and they run a different program and interface with it now). Another tool that many people use that is a paid option is Hootsuite, they do offer a limited free program as well. Part of my philosophy about working online is to try to minimize distractions and stay the course on what you are trying to accomplish. So it was with great interest that I read this article about why the creator of Twitter, Biz Stone has left the company. Why Biz Stone really left Twitter. By FastCompany-2011 A few items jumped out at me. The majority of Twitter users, […]

Google Plus One, or Google+1, How to add the button on your website.

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Google plus is DEAD. I have been working online since 1998 and I am here to tell you, Google needs to stop trying to be a social networking site. So many attempts and so many failures. This entire article I wrote is now defunk. It is is still good for just setting up a google ID, but that it is it. 1. Get a Google account. Click here to start a Google account. 2. Set up a Google Profile. Click here to set up your Google Profile. 3. Set up the Google Plus 1 button on your website. ( Never mind this, Google Plus is dead).