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New Facebook 101: Merging Lists

September 26, 2011
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Welcome to the next installment in our “New Facebook 101″ segment. Previously, I showed you how to set up your “Close Friends” and “Acquaintances” lists for maximum power. In this post we will dig a little deeper into how you can move your previously set up lists into these lists. Why merge lists? In my [...]

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New Facebook 101: Lists

September 22, 2011
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If you are a user of Facebook, you are no doubt aware that there have been some major changes lately…especially around the Feed. I’m not going to tell you why the new way is better, because either a) you already know, so why bother, or b) you already decided it’s not, so again, why bother. [...]

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The Great Google Plus Experiment

September 6, 2011
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I’ve been using Google Plus since the beginning of July. I’m a big fan of it and have decided to try to make it my main “social media” platform. To test this theory out, I am going to be taking a hiatus from Facebook for the rest of the month of September, using Google Plus [...]

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How to rock Facebook but maintain some respectability

February 18, 2010
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(Originally posted on 1/30/2009 – updated for the latest Facebook settings) So you’ve given in to the peer pressure and signed up with Facebook. You’ve hunted down your old high school pals. You suddenly have a strong option on the Pirates v. Ninjas debate. You play Scrabulous Lexulous.It’s great. Everyone is on the Fizzy Bizzy. [...]

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Hundreds of Facebook users are apparently really dumb

February 10, 2010

I know, I know, it’s a Wednesday, which means I’m supposed to be posted Web Wanderings. But this was just too hilarious to NOT share. Earlier today, ReadWriteWeb posted an article about Facebook Connect. Apparently, RWW has some amazing Google-fu, because within hours, that post became one of the top 5 results for Google searches [...]

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The Unicorns Know About Facebook Now Too

February 5, 2010
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Since Christina has been complaining about a lack of unicorn content on this blog, it seemed only appropriate to share this little tidbit with all of you. For those who are not on Facebook, there’s a meme making the rounds that requires the user to look up their first name on Urbandictionary.com and then then [...]

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Facebook Fan Pages vs. Networked Blogs

February 4, 2010
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Love it or hate it, Facebook is here to stay. Despite challenges around user privacy and an ever-changing interface, Facebook is rapidly becoming THE gateway to content for many users. As a blogger, Facebook can be a great tool to promote and share your content to potential readers. But the real question is…what’s the best [...]

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