Togetherville is a kid-safe social networking site for pre-teens where parents control the friends list for their children. The site include games, art activities, videos, and educational quizzes, and has no links to external sites. If a parent administrator chooses …[Continue]
How To Untag Yourself on Facebook
Sooner or later it’s bound to happen. One of your Facebook friends thinks that photo of you is just so hilarious. They’ve uploaded it and tagged you. And now it’s there for all your friends to see. You, however, don’t …[Continue]
How To Delete Your Facebook Account
The blogosphere has been all a twitter lately about the rise in popularity in searches for “how to delete my Facebook account.” Here’s one such rant from ReadWriteWeb. If you also want to leave the iconic king of social networking, …[Continue]
Federal Privacy Guidelines for Social Networking Sites?
The use of Facebook’s new social plugins and its Open Graph initiative grew from an initial base of seventy-five partner sites, to use on over 50,000 websites in just one week. The ability for users to declare that they “Like” …[Continue]
How to Tweet With Your Location
Twitter recently announced a new feature that optionally adds your location to your tweet. The Tweet With Location feature is off by default (thank goodness!) and you’ll need to opt into the service before you can use it. After you’ve …[Continue]
Are You Buzzing?
Google recently announced Google Buzz, a social media platform that integrates social networking into Gmail and other Google products. To check it, login into your Gmail Account and look for Buzz in the left-hand column. Is this going to impact …[Continue]
Avoid Being Phished on Twitter
Twitter has recently been hit by a rash of phishing attacks, where users get email messages with fake Twitter login links, in an attempt to steal Twitter account passwords. If you receive a notification from what looks like the real …[Continue]
How to Keep Your Old Facebook Privacy Settings
In a recent announcement, Facebook has made the default privacy setting for status updates visible to “everyone.” What this means is everyone on the Internet, not everyone of your friends. The reason behind the change is Facebook’s desire to increase …[Continue]
