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by Greg Cruey on June 28, 2009
Judy McGuire from the blog the Frishy recently wrote an interesting article on being ditched by a friend - through Facebook.We'd been having problems that had culminated in a huge argument the day...
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by Linda Roeder on January 15, 2008
Ever since the World Wide Web first began there have been Online Relationships, some of these virtual relationships have turned into real ones. I have a brother-in-law who's wife left him for ma...
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by Linda Roeder on December 29, 2007
Everyone gets them, it's nothing to be afraid of. You can't please all the people all the time. Sometimes people are just in a bad mood and need to take it out on someone. They come across you...
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by Linda Roeder on December 12, 2007
Maybe I want to have a social networking site so that I can be who I want to be without all the restrictions life puts on you. Maybe I want to talk about my personal life without having to worry that ...
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by Linda Roeder on November 6, 2007
They're the best. I don't have to check all the social networking sites I belong to every day. All I have to do is sign up for email notifications and let the network do all the hard work for ...
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by Linda Roeder on October 7, 2007
No it's not spelled wrong, and it's not food. It's a new term creeping into the social networking community. Just as spam (also the name of a pork product) is unwanted and totally annoying...
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by Linda Roeder on September 5, 2007
"Even more visitors stopped by. I began linking to other bloggers and they showed their Love by linking to me in return." ~Debng's Blog (Aug 27)
Share the love, link love that is. The m...
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by Linda Roeder on July 26, 2007
When you have 2000 friends on your list that you never communicate with and don't know anything about, that's worthless. Actually, if you have 10 friends on your list that you never communicat...
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by Linda Roeder on July 18, 2007
You've joined Facebook or MySpace, or one of the other social networking sites out there, only to have a deluge of people contact you that they want to be your "friend". You don't kn...
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by Linda Roeder on June 27, 2007
""Friend" still means "close acquaintance", but now it also means "edge in a network of people nodes"" ~Talk Techie To Me (June 18)
What does the work "Fr...
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by Linda Roeder on June 8, 2007
My Top Eight Reasons for Hating MySpace.com is an eight part article about why the author hates MySpace. I'm going to tell you what's wrong, or right, about what he's saying. Then I want y...
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by Linda Roeder on May 29, 2007
When you join Tagged you can add people to your friends list. When you do, they will receive an email that says, "Please respond or friend's name will think you said no :( ". Notice the ...
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by Linda Roeder on March 3, 2007
As in real life, if you want to make good friends, real friends, you need to remember a few simple things. Making friends on the Internet is almost the same as making friends in the real world. If you...
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by Linda Roeder on March 2, 2007
As far back as I can remember writing in all capital letters has been considered rude. Writing in all capital letters on the Internet is the same as shouting at people, it's also harder to read. M...
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by Linda Roeder on March 2, 2007
If you really want to make friends on your social networking site then you need to tell them a little about yourself. Fill out your profile. When your profile asks what your favorite books are, write ...
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by Linda Roeder on February 27, 2007
What are you going to put on your social networking page today? Will you be proud of it after you post it? Next week? Next year? In 5 years?
My point is that whatever you put out there on The Net wil...
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by Linda Roeder on February 21, 2007
Anonymity is an important feature of a personal Web site or profile when the author of the site (ie. you) wants to write about things that would just not fit into his real life world. If your mom, you...
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by Linda Roeder on February 20, 2007
Employers are searching the net when they go to hire you. I remember reading a news story about a woman who was in the hiring phase where you talk about money and when to start. Then the employer foun...
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by Linda Roeder on February 16, 2007
Have you seen these messages on MySpace yet. I don't know if they are made by MySpace or not but they are definitely telling people how they can't use MySpace.
The first one is a message for ...
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by Linda Roeder on February 10, 2007
When kids reach a certain age parents are supposed to have "the talk" with them. This is a talk about how babies are made, what is sex, why is your body changing, what are those new feelings...
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by robyn on December 20, 2005
Cyber-sleuths (see men and women bored out of their mind with nothing better to do than check DNS entries to and look up the whois info) have discovered teh founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales has been ...
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by robyn on December 11, 2005
I think the hardest thing when networking is deciding a to accept or reject a connection. I'm one of those people who was nice to everyone in school and since then...
So when I go to hit the rej...
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by robyn on December 5, 2005
A new grad sent an inquiry about using LinkedIn in her job search, to a LinkedIn user email group: here's my answer to her. The fact is that a social networking site like LinkedIn can be tremendou...
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by robyn on November 27, 2005
It's amazing how many job-seekers don't know about the essential post-interview thank you letter. When companies have interviewed several talented candidates, the thank-you letter is an easy w...
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by robyn on November 27, 2005
By now, you'd have to have lived in a cave in Afghanistan for the last decade not to know the importance of networking. Whether you're job-hunting, or growing your business, or just striding i...
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