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Jean
Join Date:
2012-01-22
Blogs Owned
1. Simply Squirrel Food
Social matters, manners & madness
Tags: facebook, twitter, social media, post, status update
Latest Blog Posts
- London 2012 Social Media Olympicson Jul 24, 2012 in you tube infographic london 2012 olympics social media facebook Pinterest google plus twitterTechnology has been a part of the Olympics modern era since 1896. Events of the early years were captured on still cameras and motion pictures. The first televised games were limited to a local audience in Berlin in 1936, while the rest of the w...
- Don't Be a Party PooperAlmost everyone likes a party - but nobody likes a party pooper. Thefreedictionary.com defines party pooper as: 1. One who declines to participate with enthusiasm, especially in the recreational activities of a group; 2. A person whose behaviour...
- Playing Hide & Seek on Facebookon Jul 10, 2012 in like customize facebook newsfeed obnoxious behavior facebook repeating bleating game apps tickerThese days it seems that I have hidden or blocked so many things from my Facebook newsfeed there's not much left to read. Everytime I log in I'm treated to a new kind of hide-and-seek game. I hide everything (and nearly everyone) who is ob...
- Oversharing (Infographic)on Jul 3, 2012Facebook is a social-sharing site. People share tidbits about various things in their lives. I won't try to address the riddle (at least not today) of: Do narcissists naturally take to Facebook like a duck to water - or is it Facebook that...
- Who's Watching the Children?There's been a lot of talk lately about children on Facebook and how to protect them. With Facebook's announcement that they may open the site up to pre-teens, a flurry of discussion was launched about how to protect children online. This is cle...
- Where Have All the People Gone?A few years ago I took to social media like the proverbial duck to water. As the self-designated "Queen of Small Talk" I found it to be a wonderful outlet to share daily events and observations. Everywhere I went I encouraged people to join...
- Do You Have Facebook Addiction Disorder?Following is an interesting infographic. It shows traits found in a newly described behavior - Facebook Addicition Disorder (FAD). Giving it the FAD acronym places it in the same alphabetical soup of better-known diagnoses an...
- To Like or Not to Like - That is the Question.Okay, so who amongst us has never envisioned themselves featured in some kind of advertisement? Many of the print and television ads I see try to portray the model as a normal person, someone easy to identify with. And when I can ...
- Friends and FrenemiesAlmost everybody has heard the quote "Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer". Though the origins of the quote seem ancient and undocumented, modern lore attributes it to Vito Corleone as cited by his son Michael in The G...
- Link Me - Friend Me - Follow Me: A Comparison of Social Media Site Popularityon May 22, 2012 in LinkedIn User Activity Comparison Of Popular Social Networking Sites facebook Pinterest twitterInfographic by- GO-Gulf.com Web Design Company...
- How Rich Could You Have Been?Everywhere you go these days, it seems everyone is talking about Facebook and the long-awaited IPO. Well today's the day the company that originated on a college campus in 2004 goes public. In the span of slightly more than 8 years, Facebook has...
- Flying the Socially Friendly SkiesNow that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been around for more than a decade, I thought I had figured out how to prepare for a flight to incur the least amount of interference and delay possible. I move all sharp and poi...
- Yogi Berra Logic & Social Mediaon May 11, 2012I love it when I can connect two of my favorite things - baseball and social media. I came across a wonderful piece about how some of Yogi Berra's sometimes mangled logic can be applied to social media. I know you'll find it both entertaining an...
- Spying or Safeguarding?Do you think it is okay for a parent to spy on their teenager's Facebook account? I know a couple of mothers who admittedly do, and I know they sometimes struggle with the mixed bag of guilt and sense of respon...
- Say No to Facebook's Health & Wellness OfferAfter dangling the promise of a 'life saving' Facebook announcement, earlier this week we learned that the behemoth social media site is now offering a place on each person's timeline to show their organ donor status. The announcement was met wi...
- Discipline Lesson or Public Humiliation?With all the stories that keep coming up about how parents are utilizing Facebook as a tool to discipline their children, I'm really glad I was raised during an age when the latest-greatest technology was color TV. During that era, so long ago,...
- The Billion Has a Lot of ZerosEarlier this week Facebook disclosed that they have 901 million monthly active users. The number is expected to exceed the one billion mark sometime within the next few months. To give the magnitude of that number perspective, consider...
- They're There & Their Bad Grammar is EverywhereIt's true, it's not what you say - it's how you say it that can really make a difference. Enjoy this fun and informative graphic! Like this infographic? Get more copywriting tips from Copyblogger.
- Is God Your Friend?Thank you www.OutThere-byGeorge.com for permission to use this great cartoon! Some people just aren't comfortable embracing social media. Many see it as a waste of time while others are hesitant to post anything that promises to leave indelible i...
- To Be or Not to Be...A FriendEven though I've got my Facebook privacy settings buttoned down tight, I still manage to get friend requests from people I do not know. I'm sorry to say I don't always remember people's faces, but I usually remember the names of people even from my d...