This simple list of 10 safety tips will help to make social networking a fun experience while being cautious.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-simple-steps-staying-safe-social-networks/
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Facebook’s Paper vs. Flipboard: Comparing Mobile News Apps
The app mixes curated news feeds with your Facebook timeline to create a platform that integrates news discovery and sharing into your timeline. With its tiled layout and gesture-based user interface, it feels very similar to Flipboard’s suite of apps. …
Perpetu Lets You Decide What Happens To Your Online Accounts After You Die
A startup called Perpetu wants to make it easier for us to ensure that our social network accounts are unplugged once we shuffle off this mortal coil. The service, which currently lets users add Facebook or Twitter accounts for free, …
Pinterest: A Beginner’s Guide to the Hot New Social Network
Pinterest is a place to organize and share online images you find interesting or inspiring. Once uploaded or shared on Pinterest, these images become known as Pins, which the user can place on customized, themed Boards. But like any new …
How a choice of social learning networks can make us smarter
The secret to why some cultures thrive and others disappear may lie in our social networks and our ability to imitate, rather than our individual smarts, according to a new University of British Columbia study.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-a-choice-of-social-learning-networks-can-make-us-smarter…
Teenagers say goodbye to Facebook and hello to messenger apps
Gradual exodus of young people towards WhatsApp, WeChat and KakaoTalk is just as their mums and dads get the hang of social networking.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/10/teenagers-messenger-apps-facebook-exodus
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The Must-Have Guide To Twitter Manners
In an effort to keep your Twitter manners properly set up and to make sure you know which part of Twitter is useful for a particular type of question or conversation, check out this visual guide.
http://www.edudemic.com/must-guide-twitter-manners/
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3 Free Tools to Manage Who You Follow on Twitter
If the list of accounts you follow on Twitter has gotten a little unruly over the years, we can help. We’re highlighting three useful tools that will allow you to analyze and manage the accounts you follow to improve your …
How to Use Twitter to Become an Expert on Any Topic
Sometimes you need to quickly immerse yourself in a new field. You might want to gain expertise or quickly gauge what the current issues are around a particular topic. One way of doing this is by creating a dedicated Twitter …
How to Stop Brands from Using You in their Facebook Ads
Facebook, unfortunately, doesn’t offer you an option to opt-out of these social ads so if you like a brand of Facebook, your profile is very likely to show up in sponsored stories appearing on your friends’ newsfeeds. There is however …
10 Hot Social Networks to Watch
We’ve compiled a list of 10 social platforms with huge potential. Some are expanding rapidly; others have yet to launch. Would you use any of these services instead of Facebook?
http://mashable.com/2013/05/29/10-hot-social-networks/
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Can Facebook Apps Help More Students Get Into College?
The Gates Foundation and Facebook have teamed up once again to host HackEd 2.0. As a result, developers are finding creative solutions to help students meet this challenge.
How Twitter has made me a New Teacher
The other day I managed to pass a couple of Twitter milestones, 500 followers and 3000 tweets, and I made me really stop and think about how this thing that many of us use named Twitter has affected my life …
Presentation of the Week: Facebook for Learning
The 25 Best Pinterest Boards in Educational Technology
Blogs and Twitter aren’t the only social tools out there that can help you keep up with the latest and greatest developments in educational technology. Pinterest is rapidly becoming a favorite tool of educators .
http://fluency21.com/blog/2013/01/15/the-25-best-pinterest-boards-in-educational-technology/…