Social Protection: The Best Ways to Safeguard Personal Data

Social media sites are fun, but when you participate, you run the risk of sharing more about yourself than you should. The good news is that close to 99.9 percent of social network privacy issues are under your control.

This article provides a few tricks I’ve discovered to keep information private on some of the more popular social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, FriendFeed and Twitter. Hopefully, these steps will give you ideas to use on other sites not listed.

Check out these tips and the full article at Internet Evolution.

The social media that cried wolf

I remember when voice mail kicked in the late 80s – I had one co-worker who labeled every voice mail as URGENT.  Then when email took off in the 1990s there was always somebody who labeled every email as HIGH IMPORTANCE!  As Social Media has taken off in recent years, I think that some bloggers have fallen prey to the same issue and added social media links to every blog posting.

Check out this full article at Blogging Tips.com.

Research Identifies Your Chance of YouTube Fame and Fortune

Who are the people who create all this social media content; specifically, the ones who spend their time creating all these YouTube Inc. videos. The standard assumption is that these people want fame and fortune, or at least fame. They want to top the charts with the most-watched video on YouTube. They want their videos to go viral and be emailed from person to person. They want to be like JerryC, who played Canon Rock to more than five-and-a-half million viewers!

But how easy is that to do? If you get inspired to create your own YouTube video, what are your real chances of success?

Check out this entire article at Internet Evolution.

I fought the law and Facebook won???

As the Facebook debate rages on over whether the creators of social media data or the companies hosting it are the real owners of this data, it’s interesting to see that innovative members of the legal system are bypassing the whole discussion and saying, “The data is public and we are going to use it.”

Consider this example from New Zealand. A young mother was convicted after using the Internet to declare a relationship she was concealing from welfare authorities. She had reported that she was a single mom and was thus eligible for $480 a week. But Web 2.0-savvy investigators checked out her Bebo and Facebook pages to find the truth: She was living with the father of her 2-year-old son, entitling her to only $140 a week. The convicted mom commented, “It came as a big surprise when I was caught. I didn’t ever think they would look me up like that.”

Read the whole article here on Internet Evolution