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If Facebook is a virtual nation, it’s a tyrannical one

by Jay Garmon on Jun 24, 2010 in facebook

Earlier this week, we discussed Robert Scoble’s flaming of Twitter’s draconian “death sentence” account takedown procedure. This led to some folks complaining that Twitter doesn’t have an appropriate “appeals” process for account suspensions — as if Twitter was a nation-state and its users were citizens. Indeed, two weeks ago Brad Burnham explicitly said web servcies [...]

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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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There will still be plenty of people on Facebook even after it’s “dead”

by Jay Garmon on May 27, 2010 in facebook

Like most of genius parody news from The Onion, the video above is hilarious because it contains a grain of truth: All online social networks rise and fall in rather short timespans. Moreover, as Broadstuff points out, membership in social networks remains steady even after usage declines. See the graph below. Thus, predictions of Facebook’s [...]

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