One downside of easy to create website platforms
Natural disasters happen. Whether it is an earthquake, a tsunami, a hurricane, a tornado or a whole host of others Mother Nature lets us know that she is still in charge. Once the disaster is over the cleanup begins and that takes time and money. For many relief and charity organizations they need to raise […]
Facebook to fact check videos and photos
Fact checking our politicians is one of the great things that has sprouted up from the Internet. Is Donald Trump lying or stretching the truth about something? It’s much easier to find that out now in the digital age than when say Grover Cleveland was president. According to the Washington Post last week Trump has […]
How do you determine if a social media account is fake?
Social media companies have taken it upon themselves to clean up fake news from their platform. That can be good and bad. Hopefully the number of strange people sending you friend requests has dropped precipitously in recent months but their overzealousness has placed these companies in hot water with their users and with the government. […]
Facebook is now rating its users trustworthiness
In today’s world of 24/7 news availability as well as the ability of anyone to offer commentary or record what is going on we don’t know quite who to trust. This has led to a rise in fake news and labeling news that one does not agree with as fake news. It has only been […]
Could Facebook Groups become a subscription service?
For anyone who runs a Facebook group there is a fine balancing act between letting in everyone and anyone and making a group too exclusive. One side allows in people who may not really be interested in a subject and just want to rile up people and the other turns away people who do not […]
What is API?
With the recent developments with social media and the use of apps one term has been thrown out that you may never have heard of: API. Facebook’s API has come under fire and changes are being made with implications for anyone who is using social media or apps that connects to the Internet. So what […]
Facebook working to save endangered languages
Helo pawb o Safleoedd Nicely Done, rydym yn gobeithio eich bod chi’n cael diwrnod gwych. Do you what that sentence says? Probably not. It’s Welsh and it just says hello from Nicely Done Sites and we hope that you are having a great day. Welsh is one of hundreds of endangered languages around the world. […]
A plan to replace the Facebook and Twitter platforms
Unless you have chosen the hermit lifestyle and have completely unplugged it is hard to have not noticed the stories that have gone on around social media giants Facebook and Twitter in the past few months. Many users have left those platforms or have decreased their usage, instead seeking different platforms embroiled in none of […]
Papua New Guinea to ban Facebook for a month?
The reaction to the recent data scandals that have embroiled Facebook have varied. Some people have continued on like normal, some have curbed their usage while others have taken more drastic steps like completely stopping using the platform. This has been, for the most part, up to the individual but that may not be an […]
Are you utilizing a Facebook Group?
There is an easy way to get your business in front of the right eyes on social media. Sure having a social media presence can get your message out and people will see it but will they really truly see it? Probably not, so why not create a Facebook group to get your message in […]
Fallout of the first days of GDPR
With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) going into effect on May 25 it did not take long for the first complaints to be filed. This should be no surprise, even though Europeans are nowhere near as litigious as us Americans. Among the early targets of these complaints were Facebook, Google, Instagram and WhatsApp (the […]
Are there alternatives to Facebook?
Unless you have been hanging out in a cave for the past few weeks you know that Facebook has come under a great deal of scrutiny for its data privacy practices. This has the possibility of leading to sweeping changes to the world of social media and the possibility (or probability) that users will leave […]