by Tina Gasperson
Social networking is fun, but you have to be careful about monitoring your privacy in online communities and behaving accordingly. Otherwise the whole world might see you with the cyber-equivalent of a lampshade on your head at the company Christmas party. Either watch what you type, or make sure your privacy settings are set to prevent anyone you don’t want nosing in your personal business from doing so.
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by David Hakala
Social networks such as MySpace, LinkedIn, and Facebook are all the rage. There are a staggering number of social networks now, but you can’t join them all. Each social networking site requires some maintenance. Joining all of them would be like joining every bowling and billiards league in town. You would be spread too thin.
Which social networking site(s) you should join depends on what your objective is. For some, it’s making business contacts. For others, it’s hooking up with long-lost friends, classmates, etc. For still others, it’s about hanging out with strangers of a certain demographic profile, usually their own. The variety of motivations for joining a social network explains why so many different ones have popped up.
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by Tina Gasperson
Your friends finally talked you into getting a Myspace account, and you dutifully learned how to “pimp your page,” posed for Myspace photos with puckered grins, and checked in each day to see who left you a comment. Just when you felt like you had it all down, now your friends are telling you to come on over to Facebook and do it all again. If “why?” is the first question that comes to mind, rest assured that there are differences between Myspace and Facebook that are worth taking a look at. You may find that you want to try having an account at both sites, or you may realize that one really is enough.
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by Tina Gasperson
Social networking is great for keeping in touch with friends and business contacts, and for getting the word out about your latest project – or just your latest vacation. Sometimes it can get difficult to manage all your online social activity, though. For example, once you’ve updated your status in Twitter, you still have to remember to update your status on Facebook because not everyone who follows you on Twitter is also your friend on Facebook. To keep up with all of that, you might find yourself spending more time online than you want to. Alternatively, you can grab a simple application that will automatically update Facebook at the same time you update Twitter, and vice versa.
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