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• Social Networking is Not Always a Popularity Contest

  Published: July 29, 2007, 6:47 pm

  Tags: Reputation Management, Social Media, Facebook, Friending, Linkedin, Social Networks, Twitter

  Now that I have just about every popular social network profile under the sun, I wanted to share an observation: Having a social network is not just a popularity contest. Sure, the younger you are, the more you may want to be liked and show-off your popularity - that’s part of the reason why MySpace has become so popular. Once you get out

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• Things That Don't Really Work Offline: Friending and Emoticons

  Published: July 30, 2007, 4:08 pm

  Tags: Candorville, Emoticons, Friending, Im Speak

  Filed under: Social Networking, Social Media Mess, Sharing and MessagingHi folks -- check out today's Candorville comic (by comic stripper/blogger Darrin Bell), which deftly illustrates why the ease of making someone your friend online doesn't quite translate to the "real" world: Click through to see the comic. There are many different ways to

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• Quick Hits of Social Media Schtuff: Facebook Pervs, Freddi Staur & More

  Published: August 15, 2007, 3:55 pm

  Tags: Cnet, Facebook, Online Friending, Onlinefriending

  mostly better off just friending people you know in real life.* On Campus, Trying to Connect: Lastly, to complete the Facebook and social networking trifecta, this Washington Post article suggests that incoming college freshmen these days might be using online social networks, cell phones, IMs and text messaging to hang on a little too

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