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Charlottetown Police are online in a social way

/ April 15, 2010 / local, social / Permalink

Did you know that the Ch’town Police are online? Did you also know that you can get updates as to the goings-on around town using Twitter? Or an RSS feed? Or on their website? You can, and it’s pretty interesting. Their site is at http://charlottetownpolice.com/, but you can also follow them on Twitter or subscribe [...]

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History of Social Media – In One Pic

/ April 6, 2010 / awesome, social / Permalink

After seeing “The Social Network“, I was really curious on the other types of social networks which are out there. I found this awesome infographic on the explosion of social networking sites over the past decade… below are some of these communities with over 1 million users, both active and defunct. What’s scary is that [...]

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How The Internet Has Saved Lives

/ March 19, 2010 / everyday life, social / Permalink

I found this article absolutely fascinating so I wanted to post it myself. Just a number of instances where the Internet has come to the rescue and the various ways it’s helped. Since the dawn of the first bulletin boards and chat rooms, the Internet has been slammed for a number of perceived social ills. [...]

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My favorite Twitter and Facebook reactions to the HUGE Canada win!!

/ February 28, 2010 / everyday life, funny, social / Permalink

Had to post some of these.. they’re hilarious!!

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Do you need an “LOL” Today? Facebooks’ Funniest Status Updates EVER!

/ January 26, 2010 / funny, social / Permalink

I stole these off Sympatico.. put them on one page cuz their slideshows are slow and stupid.

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Want To Know The Deal Behind Those Facebook Status ‘Color’ Updates?..

/ January 8, 2010 / social / Permalink

Well, the men are going to like this one.. well, I think anyhow… For the past couple of days, Facebook status updates have been confusing me with ‘pink’, ‘white’, ‘black’, ‘blue’, etc..etc.. and truthfully, that’s the whole point of the silly thing! Women are putting up the color of their bra’s that day!! The idea [...]

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Facebook Lets Advertisers Steal Your Profile Photos in order SPAM your friends!

/ July 24, 2009 / social / Permalink

Consumerist just posted this article and I never knew about it.. so I decided it was time to disable it just to be on the safe side.. I’m an avid reader (checking multiple times per day) and thought you guys would appreciate the attached ad I was presented with after I finished taking a friends’ [...]

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This is interesting – Facebook breaches Canadian privacy law..

/ July 16, 2009 / everyday life, social / Permalink

Facebook shares personal information with developers who create games and quizzes in a way that breaches Canadian privacy law, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has found. The popular social networking site, which is used by 12 million Canadians, doesn’t have enough safeguards to prevent those third-party developers from getting unauthorized access to [...]

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Don’t drop your FaceBook Friends.. just filter them out, easy and they don’t know!

/ June 25, 2009 / everyday life / Permalink

There’s been a few friends status updates I’ve seen lately that are ‘cleaning up’ their Facebook to only include people that they talk to regularly, care about, stalk.. you know.. that sort of thing. I think the reason for this is the amount of updates some people put in, and the application updates that are [...]

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Clean up Facebook’s application updates (instead of hiding them all) automatically!

/ June 15, 2009 / everyday life, social / Permalink

Are you as sick as I am of seeing the Facebook applications show up in the feed.. stuff like “Which Safari Animal Are You?” and “What type of car are you?”.. well.. I sure as hell am. Two steps and you can get rid of those annoying buggers if you’re using FireFox! 1. Install Greasemonkey [...]

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