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Forewarned is forearmed: Your social media records will (eventually) be subpoenaed

by Jay Garmon on Jun 14, 2010 in Lifestreaming
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Image by Leonard John Matthews via Flickr Few and far between are the consumers who at this point don’t realize Facebook, Google, Yahoo and virtually every other online player of consequence is collecting data about your online activities. What most consumers fail to consider is that almost any of that data can be subpoenaed in [...]

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PrivacyDefender gives you the Facebook privacy controls that Facebook won’t

by Jay Garmon on Jun 10, 2010 in facebook
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It’s not enough to know what data you’ve placed on Facebook; you need to know with whom you’re sharing that data. Facebook actually gives you surprisingly granular control over your personal data-sharing, but comprehending the whirlwind of options is hardly simple. That’s where PrivacyDefender comes in. A product of ReputationDefender, a developer of online identity manager [...]

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A popular Twitter account is rare (and valuable)

by Jay Garmon on Jun 07, 2010 in Twitter
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Image via Wikipedia Business Insider recently published a list of 14 must-read Twitter usage charts, and for those of us grumbling about three and four-figure follower numbers, take heart — we’re really rare. Over 60% of Twitter accounts have 5 or fewer followers. Of course, over 70% of Twitter accounts have tweeted less than ten [...]

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Why Facebook has become too big to fail

by Jay Garmon on Jun 03, 2010 in facebook
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Image by edkohler via Flickr May 31, 2010 was Quit Facebook Day, which managed to convince about 33,000 people to leave the world’s largest social network. While that number would fill a mid-major college football stadium, it’s less than one percent of one percent of Facebook’s 400 million users. If the object of Quit Facebook Day [...]

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Why you shouldn’t delete your Facebook data — even if you delete it

by Jay Garmon on May 20, 2010 in Backups
Deactivating my Facebook Account

Image by mark_am_kramer via Flickr The trendy new meme among the internet intelligentsia is that it’s time to delete your Facebook account. Granted, Facebook doesn’t make it easy to do so, but conventional wisdom now holds that it’s better to go through the ordeal of deletion than leave your data in Facebook’s nefarious hands. Unfortunately, [...]

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