By this point, if you have a Facebook account, you’ve likely heard of the issues with Cambridge Analytica. You may be wondering if your data has been shared. You can find out the answer to that question by clicking this link.
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Facebook has been much talked about in the last few days as news of a pretty substantial data mining operation broke. You probably read about it. If you’re not ready to delete your account yet (no judgement here), you might want to check to see what apps have access at the very least. This handy how to walks you through the process.
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Remember LiveJournal? People loved that site and kept theirs up until very recently. In the social media landscape, that act of reading someone else’s journal really connected people in a very specific way. Dreamwidth is a website that is sort of like that.
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Hashtags are still an important tool for social media use. If you just use social media for your personal life, then it’s probably not THAT important what you tag posts with but if you’re into marketing or trying to get you work noticed by the right people, hashtags can ma e a difference. RiteTag is the app that helps you get the best hashtags for your posts.
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Managing social media can be a hard task for many small businesses. It’s best practice to be on every social media platform and gets even trickier when you have multiple “brands” that you handle. Make things more efficient with Hootsuite, the social media productivity software.
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Brands advertise their wares on social media all day, every day. But maybe you don’t have time to really shop right then. Then you have to save the post where it can be buried under all the news articles you’re going to read someday. Not cool. Make it easier with SHOPTHAT, the system that lets you shop Instagram and Facebook posts.
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Not so great at Twitter because you need more than 140 characters to make your points? Well good news then, the long time limit has been increased to 280 characters, doubling the size of tweets! Whether you use them or not, now you have the option.
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Everyone is busy but we should take time to keep up on the news, it’s what is happening in the world after all. It’s very hard keep up with various news streams when you’re a busy person though. Nuzzle is the app that uses your social media to keep you abreast of the news that matters to you.
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Hashtags can make or break your post on social media. You want to make sure your post gets seen by the right people but you don’t want your photos or hilarious tweet to be lost in a sea of other tweets and posts. Focalmark is the app that helps you find the best ones.
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Social media sometimes makes us question if our friends are really our friends and honestly, how well do we know anyone? Worried that your huge Instagram following is really full of bots and fake accounts? Check out FameAudit, the website that will let you know how likely it is that your followers are fake.
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Sometimes there are so many awesome things happening at once you want to capture them all but without having to manually capture them all. Don’t want to give all your attention to snapping photos of what’s happening around you, no matter how cool? Check out the Wearable Lifestyle Camera, the camera that captures life as it happens.
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Consider yourself a master of speaking in gifs? Why not test your skill in communicating in pictures against strangers with Dice, the chat app that only allows exchanges in images (and video).
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In 2017 a lot of social interaction happens on social media but Facebook and Twitter aren’t exactly what we would call “kid friendly”. Which is probably why LEGO went ahead and made LEGO Life, the social media site for kids.
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We’re all spending a lot of time on Facebook which can be very stressful. If you don’t want to log off completely for whatever reasons, there are a variety of extensions to help you lower some of the anxiety attached to using the platform. Facebook Demetricator removes the numbers game in hopes to lower your stress around checking social media.
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Videos are worth 1000 words, it used to be pictures but it’s 2017 now and we need to upgrade our turns of phrase. In any case, Quik is the app that turns your photos and video clips into full videos that you can share.
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