5 Ways to Deal with the Internet’s Most Persistent Trolls

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Internet Trolls: You see them on your social networking sites, while playing your online games, in chat rooms, and maybe even in your emails. They are those annoying pests that literally troll around the Internet looking for groups they can penetrate to sell things to, get information from, or just annoy. Here are five ways to deal with the Internet’s most persistent trolls. Flaming Trolls Flaming trolls are those that go around chat rooms and social networking sites looking to annoy … [Read more...]

Infographic: LinkedIn Transforms Job Recruiting

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LinkedIn is often viewed as Facebook's stuffier, less popular cousin, but it has become an invaluable tool to recruiters as the professional social network's numbers have climbed from 37 million users in 2009 to more than 225 million this year. The company serves professionals in more than 200 countries, but not all of them are extremely active on the site. According to an infographic (below) from Masters in Human Resources, only 50.5 percent of members have complete profiles and most only … [Read more...]

Study: Anxiety and alcohol use linked to Facebook

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College freshmen who report higher levels of anxiety and alcohol use are more likely to feel emotionally connected with the social networking site than those who don't. In a quest to learn what leads some people to turn to Facebook to connect with others, doctoral student Russell Clayton of the Missouri School of Journalism found that anxiety and alcohol use seem to play a big role. For his master's thesis, which appears in the May issue of Computers in Human Behavior, Clayton … [Read more...]

Kik Messenger Tops 50M Registered Users, Adding Over 200K Per Day As It Delivers In-App Push For Kik Cards

Kik Messenger Tops 50M Registered Users, Adding Over 200K Per Day As It Delivers In-App Push For Kik Cards

The messaging space is a hot one these days, and early player Kik is no exception. The Waterloo-based company announced today that its cross-platform messaging app now has over 50 million registered users, and is adding new ones at a rate of over 200,000 per day. Kik recently introduced Kik Cards, an experience which lets users interact with HTML5-based mini-apps within the Kik messaging experience itself, and to date over 25 million Kik cards have been installed by users. Kik’s growth has … [Read more...]

LinkedIn, Twitter Rival Facebook for Marketing Dominance

LinkedIn, Twitter Rival Facebook for Marketing Dominance

News.Yahoo - Facebook still may be the king when it comes to social media marketing for small businesses, but other social networking sites are making significant gains among small businesses owners and entrepreneurs, new research has found. Overall, 80 percent of small business owners say they are using some form of social media marketing. Those business owners have shown a preference for certain social platforms for marketing. Eighty-two percent of small business owners say Facebook is the … [Read more...]

Social Media: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook & Pinterest

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Social Media: Twitter, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB +1.39), Tumblr, Google Plus (NASDAQ:GOOG -.08), Pinterest, and the list goes on and on. These social networking sites do play a role in how individuals interpret data but a very minimal role at best. For most people social media is just another way to express yourself to the people you care for most. For some businesses social media is a way out of the normal way a professional would handle business. Instagram is a popular social media website … [Read more...]

Pin-tusiastic Pinterest Ruling My Passion

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Written by Shiramae Sepida Social Media has grown faster than I have ever thought. I did not know the internet was born before I exist in this world. How rapid the internet changes, I imagine, will more than likely influence the younger generation. We could set our status on Facebook, tweet what’s on our mind on twitter or even extend what we are up to on Google+. See? How many social networking sites persuade our willingness to intereact more. Social Media connects billions of people … [Read more...]

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