How To Improve Engagement on Your Facebook Brand Page
Have a fan or brand page on Facebook but not getting the engagement you were wishing for? Well, tough luck because your brand probably sucks, is what an unhelpful jerk would say, but luckily for you I’m not totally unhelpful. Read on for insightful advice from the folks at Facebook (sorta), and then Wildfire Interactive [...]
After School Special: Facebook Could Be Terrible For Kids
Move over Coca-Cola, MTV, and Ecstasy, there is a new trend exploiting the youth of America. It’s called social media. In a Huffington Post article, Jim Steyer, founder of Common Sense Media wrote that, “The average child spends more time today with media than they do in school or with their family.” Steyer’s company, Common [...]
Facebook Lets You Share Files–If You Dare
For new media artists and regular users alike, Facebook is slowly becoming a one-stop shop for everything social media. Now, for groups in the meantime, you can share files between members through a new Facebook feature that is slightly similar to file-sharing portals like Google Drive (previously Google Docs) and Dropbox. Here are two major [...]
An Interview With Venus Angelic, YouTube’s Living Doll
Like other 15-year-olds aiming to please credulous adults looking for signs of precociousness in children, Venus Palermo has her favorite school subjects ready to recite on cue. “I love math, technology, and biology,” she tells me without a moment’s hesitation. Venus is homeschooled, a consequence of her and her mother’s relatively recent move from a [...]
Bing Adds Social Media Face To Its Search Engine
In the ever increasing fight to stay relevant, Microsoft’s Bing search engine is making headway in attracting social media users. As part of its revamp, starting this week, Bing will input more searches based on your social media following and unlike giant rival Google, will include the option to get your Facebook friends’ direct input [...]
Tweeting About Yourself Better than Money and Sex
A group of neuroscientists at Harvard University AKA “nerds that study your brain” have determined why you post so much about yourself AKA “cool story, bro” on social media networks (it’s been shown that around 80% of all social media posts are announcements of an individual’s own immediate experience). In their study, the neuroscientists proved that [...]
Facebook Opens Up The App Center
On the verge of makings its stock market debut, Facebook is rolling out its very own app store in the coming days. It is Facebook’s second attempt at centralizing the myriad of apps that make the social media site home into one store and, as another way for the social networking site to make some [...]
Give Me A Social Media Break
Advertisers have finally found a solution to “social media stress”: Kit-Kats. Just kidding, although a firm that works with Kit-Kat in Singapore is trying to do to tackle the unfortunate problem of “social media stress,” which, if you’ve ever used Facebook or Twitter on a regular basis, you know is all too real. Their solution [...]
Is A Facebook “Like” Free Speech?
Depending on your opinion, you are probably going to “dislike” what you’re about to read (If they only had those buttons—but that’s a different story for a different day). Last week, a judge in Virginia ruled that a public employee’s like of a political opponent that resulted in his firing did not fall under protected [...]
The Downside of Facebook Brand pages
Toast, naps, Justin Bieber…you name it, I have probably like it on Facebook. Since brand pages first showed up on my sidebar in 2007, I have been liking and becoming a fan of a wide variety of pages without fear of retribution. I could handle it when things I had liked started showing up on [...]
