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Recently, I re-activated my Facebook account. I didn’t think I would ever go back (see my post announcing my Facebook account deletion), but my new job has more than a small presence in the community, and as Community Manager, I need to integrate myself into any community using any service. Facebook also did something right [...]

Michael Arrington put up an interesting post on TechCrunch recently regarding Twitter’s continued growth in popularity, stating “I realized that in the last two months a subtle shift occurred: I now need Twitter more than Twitter needs me.” For me Twitter became indispensable in March 2008, when my usage skyrocketed (I started using a desktop [...]

Despite my ever increasing traffic, my Alexa and Technorati ranks seem to be taking a nosedive. The only real change I have made to this site that can account for that is the decrease in my social media promotion. I find it strange that not promoting my stuff all over the Internet has created such [...]

One of the social sites that was taking up a decent bit of my time and mindshare was Facebook, and the worst thing of all: I wasn’t getting anything out of it. Facebook is great for almost creating a high school reunion of sorts. I got re-introduced to people I knew in my childhood on [...]

Over on CrowdSpark there is a great post up that asks the question, has Facebook become Spambook? I think the answer is a resounding yes. I think this paragraph from the article sums it all up nicely: Facebook now resembles the preverbal high school party to which one invites a few friends and ends up [...]