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11 October 2013
Opinion: How to stay private now that anyone can find you on Facebook

Facebook is tweaking your privacy settings again, but it's not quite as serious as it sounds--the change, which removes an option to hide your name in search results, was announced last December and has already been in effect for 90 percent of users. On Thursday, Facebook removed the option for the last users still hanging on.
03 October 2013
Opinion: How to stay safe on Pinterest and Tumblr

There has been a lot of talk regarding safety and privacy on Facebook and Twitter, but what about the others? Here's how to use Pinterest and Tumblr safely.
30 September 2013
Opinion: Twitter is up for sale and going public.

Following on from Facebook, Twitter has announced it is to be floated on the stock exchange. As the IPO approaches we look at why the micro-blogging site is important, and how stockholders will change its ideals.
17 July 2013
Opinion: Twitter power: avoid purgatory by following the pope

The pope has turned to Twitter and other forms of social media for one of the Vatican's favorite pastimes: handing out plenary indulgences.
16 July 2013
Opinion: Home of the strange: The web's weirdest places

The Internet is a strange, odd, whacked-out place. Yes, there are some crazy people out there, and many of them have found the web to be a powerful outlet for their craziness.
07 June 2013
Opinion: Matchmaking app Tinder is tech's answer to 'How I Met Your Mother'

"Let me tell you the story of how I met your mother," a father tells his young son, gazing misty-eyed into the distance as he relives the experience. "It was on the iPhone app Tinder. We both swiped to the right."
30 May 2013
Opinion: Bad social media strategy for any business

Until last month, few had heard of Amy's Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro restaurant in the US city of Scottsdale, Arizona. It's a family-owned eatery offering slightly upmarket burgers, pizzas, and cakes.
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.