Are We Obsessed With Facebook?

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I’m guilty of a couple of these … checking Facebook on my phone before I get out of bed: yeah. I don’t think I talk to more people online that I do in real life, but I do talk to people on Facebook that I wouldn’t talk to in real life — friends who live [...]

Facebook Did What?

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Every time Facebook changes things — which, it seems, it all the time, users get upset. Many of us are change-averse; some of us even react negatively to positive change. I often accuse my husband of being so change-averse he’d be upset if we won the lottery. (I’d love the chance to test my theory.) [...]

Google+: Dead or Alive?

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I’ve been a Google+ user since early on, as I’m generally an early adopter. I, and others in my circles, took to it immediately and many predicted they would soon abandon Facebook. Recently there has been talk that Google+ is dead, despite the adoption rate of 25 million users in one month. This post on [...]

7 Things I Dig About Google+

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I’m seriously loving Google+. I didn’t get one of the earliest invitations, but scored one earlier this week. First, let me say that I’m not a Facebook hater, I’m not looking for a reason to leave it and I think only time will tell whether or not Google+ will beat it. But if I had [...]

Cool Tool: Timely for Twitter

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Recently I discovered one of my new favorite Twitter tools, Timely, from Flowtown (@flowtown). I manage four Twitter accounts, and for some of them, the ability to schedule tweets is crucial. I’ve used Hootsuite for a long time, but always found the interface clunky and cumbersome. Timely’s interface is clean and simple to use. Start [...]