Google+ people: Who are they? A friend recently commented that the only updates he sees on Google+ are from me and NASA. How can that be if Google+ is the second most popular social media site? Why is the image of Google+ as a virtual ghost town so hard to shake? How can you find active … Continue reading Google+ people: Finding signs of life on the second most popular social media site
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Don't get "scroogled" this Valentine's Day by letting Google read your love messages and use the content for targeted ads. That's the invasion of privacy Microsoft wants you to consider in their Valentine's Day Scroogled video, part of their campaign to get people to move away from Google services like Gmail. Google ad software analyzes … Continue reading A Valentine’s Day message from Microsoft: Don’t get scroogled
Google+ circles are how you organize people you want to see on Google+. What circles you need depends on how much you want to be able to filter what you are reading or control who sees your posts. New Google+ users sometimes seem intimidated by having to decide what circles to make and who to … Continue reading Google+ circles: You only need to have one
Facebook lists are not as good as Google+ circles for giving you control over who sees your posts. Like many Facebook privacy settings the behavior of custom Facebook lists is not obvious, which makes them difficult to use properly. Facebook offers the option to exclude people from posts using lists or individual names, which seems … Continue reading Facebook lists versus Google+ circles: Why circles give you more control
Internet security is rapidly becoming essential knowledge. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt recently spoke at Cambridge University about his view of our future as tied to technology. Among predictions about cyberterrorism and ransoming of online identities he emphasized the need to teach kids Internet security early in life. He predicts that in the future our … Continue reading Teach kids Internet security before the sex talk says Google Chairman Eric Schmidt
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