Archive for the ‘Facebook "No-No's"’ Category
Monday, December 29th, 2008
I got this in my mail a few days ago:
This is just like the thing I got a while back and wrote about, regarding Getemcode.
Click on it? Only if I want to spend the next week dealing with virus issues.
What if it's real? What if... well, I'd rather take the ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
It just doesn't get better (yeah, I know, it will get better, as stupid people come out of hiding all the time)... this story is a trip! Thanks to Gayle Howard, who shared this link on the Career Directors email list!
Basically a bunch of kids (yeah, I'm old) went to ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Have you received a message saying your picture has been found on another website? I got it a week or so ago, and was skeptical but figured I'd check. One of the links I know they are saying is getemcode.com (don't go there!), which redirects to something else, and then ...
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
I'm amazed that this stuff still happens... alas, some people still think social networking is their private, non-work environment. Thanks to Gayle Howard, a resume writer in Australia, for passing this link on. From the article:
Virgin Atlantic has sacked 13 of its cabin staff after they criticised the airline and ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
I just read a profound quote by Peter Shankman on NewspaperGirl's blog (which I can't get to right now):
“If you don’t know how to network in the first place, all social media can do is give you the chance to screw up to a much larger group of people in ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Today I received some interesting wall posts that claimed to be from my Aunt. The first looked like the following:
hey do me a favor and try the new crush calculator, don't worry its not some annoying facebook application that makes you invite all your friends, the crush calc works ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
In I'm on Facebook -- Now What??? we suggest building a Facebook Group for your School Class in order to collaborate with other classmates. Doing so can be an excellent way to get help with your questions about the material and meet with other classmates that are also studying your ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Yesterday I had the honor of joining Michael Port and hundreds of his friends on an hour-long teleseminar. Michael recently joined Facebook and was letting his contacts know about it. My friend, Mike Murray, introduced us, which led to the call. It was a blast!
I have to ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Robert Scoble, it appears, has been hit by the same types of restrictions on Facebook as Harry Joiner and Jon Swift. In the book, we mention two examples of previous bloggers who had their accounts banned because of normal activity performed within Facebook. Jon Swift was removed because ...
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