How Can I Get My Content Shared On Social Media?
You have written a good content piece. It has taken you some time to research it, to write it, to proofread it and to format it. You want people to read it so you’ve made sure that it is posted on your social media pages. For websites though that content just doesn’t have much reach […]
Devin Nunes Sues Twitter
Being a politician may look easy and many Americans certainly feel like their representatives should spend more time representing them and less time raising money or schmoozing with lobbyists. Social media is a popular place to discuss this and in many cases to insult them, from the President of the United States all the way […]
Do We Read Too Much Into Social Media?
Sometimes we can read too much into what goes on on social media. We’ve all been there. Is that Facebook post from an acquaintance trying to subliminally say something? Is your girlfriend using code with someone on Twitter? Is your favorite sports team hinting at something on Instagram? These people know this as well and […]
Can You Get Arrested Because Your Data Was Stolen?
We’ve all read about the number of data breaches that have been plaguing the civilized world. In most cases nothing good comes of it and the amount of hassle that it brings for both companies and individuals who have their information compromised is too much for some people. But on occasion something good comes out […]
What Were the Most Visited Sites on the Web in 2018?
As the year comes to an end there are a lot of retrospectives and reviews going on. One things that you can do is to review how many people came to visit your site and to see if there are ways that you can increase the number of visitors. There are always more ways to […]
Free or Affordable Social Media Management Tools
Social media can be a great tool to help your business grow. It can also be daunting to keep up with it. In the time that you have been reading this a new platform has probably been introduced and a different one been bought up or is no more. For every Facebook or Twitter there […]
Could Federal Law on data protection be coming
The privacy of our data has been in the news a lot this year. It has brought some of our favorite social media platforms before Congress for hearings with all of the partisan bickering that we have come to expect from our elected officials in Washington. Overshadowed by the Kavanaugh hearings a few weeks ago […]
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. […]
Instagram has a new verification system
You know who you are. At least we hope you do. But how does the world know that you are who you say you are? Since social media companies are bringing the world together they have been at the forefront of trying to verify that their users are who they say they are. It has […]
Watch what you say on social media
For everyone out there who is on social media you need to remember one thing: It is permanent. What you enter into social media will never be deleted. It will remain on some hard drive in some data center long after you are dead. One day it could be your legacy so with a plethora […]
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 […]
When Twitter goes horribly wrong
There was a time when to break a news story it required multiple legitimate sources or catching someone in the act. In today’s world, thanks in large part to social media platforms like Twitter, that is not the case (Roseanne Barr, I’m looking at you!). Anyone anywhere can put out a story and potentially ruin […]