My wife and several of my Facebook compadres have engaged in the latest version of the “things about me” meme. Only this time, it’s 25 things and 25 people. You may recall about a year ago, I started up a version of this meme, a.k.a. blog tag, with the eight things/eight people format. If you… Read More
Tag: social hacking
Social Hacking is Primetime
No sooner had the ink dried on my post about tweeting with care, than my feeds yielded this post from TechCrunch. The short version is that a phisher hacked into some poor dude’s Facebook account, then whipped up a friend-in-need story and tried to sucker one of his friends into sending money using FB chat.… Read More
Tweet with Care
This post features 95% more obvious than your average post, and as usual, insert Twitter disclaimer here. Obvious Point 1: Twitter is growing fast. According to Mashable (data from Compete), Twitter grew 752% in 2008 in terms of daily unique visitors, rising from about 500,000 uniques in January 2008 to 4.43 million in December. And… Read More