Latest Social Networks Opinion

16 April 2013
Opinion: The perils of corporate tweeting

Many enterprise level-tech firms have sophisticated social media strategies. Unfortunately, all it takes is one employee with inflammatory social media skills, and the firm's brand takes a beating.
08 April 2013
Opinion: Facebook's new app: 'Slave'

My name is Stefan Hammond and my picture is above. OK, the pic's a few years old and I don't look quite that good. But that's me.
01 April 2013
Opinion: Spruce up your Facebook chats with fancy emoticons

A couple years back I showed you how to add symbols to your Facebook status updates.
28 March 2013
Opinion: The 'Other' Facebook inbox you didn't know you had

I know loads of Facebook users who never bother to check their notifications. You know, that area in the top-left corner of the screen, the one with the little red number badges?
12 March 2013
Opinion: Use Twitter to get real-time customer service updates and info

Yesterday, digital-comic-book reseller Comixology held a promotion offering a whopping 700 free comics--first issues of old and new series ranging from The Avengers to The Fantastic Four to Spider-Man.
29 January 2013
Opinion: Get a free shared workspace for your small business

I truly believe that effective organization and communication can make the difference between business success and business failure.
24 September 2012
Opinion: What's in your Facebook Activity Log?

Do you use Facebook? Hundreds of millions of people use the social network to connect with friends and family, share pictures and videos, play games, and more. What you might not realize is that everything you do on Facebook is tracked and logged.
18 September 2012
Opinion: Do Klout Perks carry any real-world weight?

You may be more than the sum of your parts, but to Klout, you're just a number. The analytics company monitors your interactions on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and beyond. It then sorts through the data to generate a numeric score that purportedly "measures a person's overall online influence" on a scale from 1 to 100.
17 September 2012
Opinion: Beware of fake 'likes,' and other false social signals

As social networks continue to grow, businesses are scrambling to grab customer attention and convert it to dollars. Some companies, however, aren't afraid to turn towards sleazier methods to amplify brand awareness. Gartner Research predicted today that 10 to 15 percent of all social media reviews by the end of 2014 will be fake critiques paid for by unscrupulous advertisers.
12 September 2012
Opinion: Make your Facebook news feed default to Most Recent

Oh, Facebook. I'm always setting your news feed to Most Recent, and every few days you decide I'd be happier with Top Stories.
03 September 2012
Opinion: What's Facebook's Secret Sauce to Wash Out False 'Likes'?

Facebook claims it's cleaning up the proliferation of false "likes" on its system, but its methods for doing it are opaque.
Opinion: Twitter Rival App.net Gets Its Own iOS Client

A startup that pledges to do Twitter right expanded its reach Saturday when its first app built from scratch for users of the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPhone arrived at Apple's App Store.
14 August 2012
Opinion: Klout Now Wants To Measure Your Real-World Influence

We've explained to you how to increase your Klout score here on PCWorld, but a new update to the service may have boosted (or dropped) your score without you doing a thing.
09 August 2012
Opinion: Facebook Turns to Users to Help Combat Phishing

Facebook wants to fight back against phishing attacks targeting its users, so it is asking users to begin forwarding any suspicious emails they receive.
03 August 2012
Opinion: Twitter Gets Political with a Political Index

The "Twitter Political Index" helps the masses figure out just how the rest of the Twitter world feels about the two presidential candidates. Instead of relying on intuitions of political experts or waiting for the polling phone calls to be made, Twitter's new tool powered by Topsy will keep you informed about the general consensus on the candidates.
02 August 2012
Opinion: Facebook Unveils New User-Generated Feature: Facebook Stories

The nearly 1 billion users (fewer, of course, if you don't count all those bogus accounts) who use Facebook every day sure share a lot of stuff. However, a lot of it gets lost in the shuffle.
26 July 2012
Opinion: Facebook's Recommendations Bar: A Privacy Concern?

Facebook has rolled out a new feature called the Recommendations Bar for website owners. The Recommendations Bar allows website owners to tap into the social network's database of what you and your friends read, share, and like.
Opinion: My Twitter Account Has Been Hacked!

GoGators complained to the Answer Line forum about his hacked Twitter account.
13 July 2012
Opinion: Betaworks Digs Under Sofa Cushions, Finds Change, Buys Digg

The social news pioneering site--once rumored to be worth $200 million to Google--Thursday was practically given away.
03 July 2012
Opinion: Facebook Promises Fix for @facebook.com E-Mail Glitch

Facebook is working to clean up the mess after it decided to hide e-mail addresses besides its own @facebook.com e-mail from users’ profiles. The switch happened last week, and those who sync their contacts with Facebook soon found that all their friends’ e-mail addresses were missing -- only to be replaced by @facebook.com addresses.

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