Remember the pants on the ground act from American Idol? Of course, you do. Well, someone decided to open up a Pants on The Ground Facebook fanpage and the page has over 2 million fans! After digging around I found the fanpage was created on January 13th and as of now (Jan. 24th) it has [...]

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I am sure there are many who use iGoogle to centralize information that relates to them. Although many use it to add unnecessary gadgets and games, if used properly it can be quite effective to stay up-to-date on things. I have been using it to subscribe to some of the best social media blogs out [...]

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When it comes to social media marketing, Facebook is the “it” platform. If you are going to dive into reaching out to your customer/reader base, it’s a platform that just can’t be ignored. The sheer number of users alone is a good enough reason to get into it and the fact that it’s almost certain [...]

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Voyeurism.
Although the term “voyeurism” is usually related directly to sexual interest, these days we use this particular term to define other behaviors as well. Here is the definition of Voyeurism according to Wikipedia,
In clinical psychology, voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual [...]

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Warning : Written on a Saturday morning before a cup of coffee. Ignore the typos.
I use Facebook quite actively and this is something that I just noticed yesterday. I am pretty sure this feature was rolled out sometimes yesterday cause I had not seen it before. I have yet to see anyone talk about it [...]

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I rarely use hootsuite but there is a good chance I might be using them soon. I logged in this morning and was surprised to see a little “plus” sign next to each tweet. That plus sign is your gateway to finding what the URL is all about. If you see a link, whether it’s [...]

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