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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 […]

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, […]

How can I set up a strategic system or tweet plan where I am not creating more work for myself?

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Kim Edwards is writing an article for the Independent Book Publishers Association, and she sent me some interview questions. One of the questions was: “How can I set up a strategic system or tweet plan where I am not creating more work for myself?”. This is a great question for me because I just recently started using twitterfeed. This is a tool that has greatly increased my traffic, (doubled it from the day I started using it!), and saved me so much time. If you are using Facebook and twitter and Linkedin and not using this tool, run don’t walk to sign up now. Did I mention it is FREE. I would pay to use this. It does take about 30 minutes to set up correctly. Well at least it took me that long because I felt a little confused about the feeds and I did not get a confirmation message after filling things in and I kept trying to check it and was not sure how to do that. Sometimes when I find myself feeling like that online I discovered it pays to leave it and go back. When I checked back later it was all there to see […]