We all know about Facebook and their public struggles about sharing your private information. Unfortunately, they aren’t the only company under the spotlight. Popular sites like Pandora, Yelp, Netflix, and every Angry Birds are dealing with the same issues. If you are the proud owner of a DROID or iPhone, odds are you are installing [...]
It took me a minute to remember, too. I think I’ve still got a MySpace profile collecting spam out there somewhere, but who knows the last time I logged in. I don’t think anyone I know still uses it either. So the announcement that the once-largest social network has finally conceded to Facebook came as [...]
They say drinking is a social lubricant but at some point in your life you might have called, texted, or even hopped on Facebook when you weren’t entirely in the correct state of mind. WebRoot has come to the rescue with a new browser plugin that may guard you from posting something on a social [...]
I always wondered where social networking would lead us. The first site I ever used for social media was MySpace, I thought it was fun to reconnect with friends I had during High School and actually reconnected with an old friend who is now my fiancée. Never in my mind would I have thought this [...]
I came across an article today that said a new survey recently determined that Facebook is as popular as filing taxes. Really? Filing taxes? The site with some 500M users scores poorly in customer satisfaction, the survey unveiled, within the same range as airlines, cable providers and the IRS. While we love to use the [...]
Lately I’ve heard people express concern over the safety of the information they provide on the web including social networking sites like Facebook. It’s true that although you may delete these accounts, your information can remain, forever encapsulated on the World Wide Web. Before you establish accounts on the internet, I suggest reading the privacy [...]