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How To Control Your Privacy On Facebook

February 29, 2012 By Sherry Tingley

When you have over 500 friends on Facebook, you may think that you are stuck with reading news feeds from everyone. Save yourself some time by organizing your streaming updates. Facebook has made it very easy to read news feeds from only those you are interested in following.

Facebook Lists

How do you do filter out your stream of updates? Through Facebook Lists. Facebook lists make it possible for you to organize your friends into groups. You decide the group names and you pick the people you want in your groups. You might organize by family members, close friends, friends in the geographic area you live, work friends, high school friends or special interests like hobbies.

You will notice on the left side of the page a column called lists. If you hover over the word “lists” you can the word “more” to the right of the lists. Click on more. You will see a list of any current lists you have created. You can click on “create lists” to add new lists. There you will be asked to choose people you want to assign to the new list.

When you want to see the updates from each list, you just click on list name which is located on the left side of your Facebook account. You will save hours of reading through posts by people you really have little interest in following.

Smart Lists

What is a smart list? Facebook has created a function that will create lists automatically for you based on your profile. If you have listed a school you have attended, the list will appear automatically. Work, school, family and city are common auto created lists.

Control Who Sees Your Updates

Probably the most important privacy feature you should learn to use is choosing the audience of your status updates. When you make an update, there is now a drop down list in the bottom right corner of the status update box. This is where you can select which list you want to post your updates to. This allows you to choose who sees and reads your posts. Gone are the days where everybody sees all your posts. Finally a decent way to reclaim your privacy.

Using these features of Facebook can really help you enjoy the social experience much more. So if you have been hesitant to post because you are concerned about who sees and reads your posts, that problem is now solved. Share your private posts with those you actually want to share with.

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Facebook Characters In The Social Network Movie

October 1, 2010 By Sherry Tingley

Today, Oct. 1, 2010 marks the release of the movie, “The Social Network.” The story about the development of Facebook. Facebook has been recently estimated to be worth $22 billion dollars. Mike Morwitz, a venture capitalist said, “the product (Facebook) helps solve a real problem for many people in a simple, elegant way.” Mark Zuckerberg created the social networking platform that changed the way the millions of people communicates.

As with any company, Facebook has interesting twists and turns during the creation phase and the building out phase of their product. Knowing a little bit about some of the other key players in this company can help you appreciate the evolution of a social network.

Previewing the Social Netwok — Social Media Fans in SLC, Utah, Watch The Social Network Movie Together

Eduardo Saverin

Eduardo Saverin, a 26 year old born in Brazil, is a graduate of Harvard holding a degree in economics. He assumed the role of Mark’s business manager at first, however his role in the company diminished when Sean Parker was able to acquire venture capital form Peter Thiel.

He was the person behind the development of the movie, “The Social Network.” At the urging of a friend, Will McMullen, Eduardo eventually disclosed behind the scenes information to Ben Mezrich who later published a book called, “The Accidental Billionaires.”

Eduardo Saverin won a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg which allowed his name to be listed as the co-founder of Facebook. He owns a 5% share worth $1.1 billion dollars. Part of the settlement agreement stipulates that he does not discuss this situation any further. Eight days younger than Zuckerberg, he is the newest member of the Forbes 400 Richest People In America List.

Sean Parker

Another key player is Sean Parker. Sean’s childhood brings to light how he became involved with Mark Zuckerberg.

Sean’s father, a U.S. government oceanographer, began teaching him programming at age seven. When he was just 16 years old he was successfully hacking into various networks, some included the military and large national foundations. His obsession with computers led him to spend odd hours working through the night and basically having a hard time completing school work.

One night his father got angry with him because of his poor performance and grabbed the computer keyboard away from him. Although he told his father he hadn’t logged out of the program he was working on, his father ignored his pleas. He knew that his activities would be discovered.

The next day, his father pulled him out of school for a so called “orthodontics” appointment. Uncomfortable with the “orthodontics” appointment excuse, since he had no orthodontics, he anticipated his consequences. When he arrived home, the FBI was there waiting to interrogate him.

He was given community service for his punishment and for obvious reasons, barely graduated from high school.

At age 19, he invented the popular music sharing program, Napster.

In 2004, he emailed Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook and soon after they became partners. Mark Zuckerberg said, “few people are as smart as he is.” Once the President of Facebook, Sean was asked to step down because of his involvement with cocaine.

David Kirkpatrick, author of “The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World, says “He is one of the great serial entrepreneurs of his generation.”

“The Social Network,” opens today and should prove to be interesting for many social media fans and entrepreneurs.

Related Information:

Owners of Facebook:

Mark Zuckerburg – 25%
Accel Partners – 10%
Digital Sky Technologies – 10%
Dustin Moskovitz – 6%
Eduardo Saverin – 5%
Sean Parker -4%
Peter Thiel – 3%
Greylock Partners – 1.5%
Merich Capital Ventures – 1.5%
Microsoft – 1.3%
Li Ka-Shing – .75%
Interpublic Group – .5%
Five early employees – less than 1%
Mark Pincus & Reid Hoffman – undisclosed
Western Technology Investments – undisclosed

The Social Media Golden Triangle

August 23, 2009 By Sherry Tingley

If you have been baffled and confused and just don’t know where to start with social media, you must not have heard of the Golden Triangle. The Golden Triangle was lost thousands of years ago… Wait! That’s a different story, this one was discovered within the past two years!

This is a story of how the Social Media Golden Triangle can completely transform the way you communicate with your clients and customers and your business. We all know that economic times have changed. You have been hearing about Social Media, Social Networking, Viral Video and many other social media outlets that you wish you could leverage and turn into business.

What I’m about to discuss is nothing new, but it is a strong force that if used properly, will change the course of your business.

You have undoubtedly heard a lot of hype and hoopla around Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. These three sites make up “The Social Media Golden Triangle”. Now is the time to put them to work for your business. Using the Golden Triangle can help you identify, attract, and interact with your target audience. This powerful combination of websites can take you from just barely surviving to thriving in the current economy.

Let’s look at each piece of the Golden Triangle separately so we have a basic understanding as to what each piece does:

Twitter

Twitter is a new tool designed to keep things short and sweet. There’s no time for industry jargon, just tell me how it is and I’ll decide if it’s worth my time to view your full message. Part branding strategy, part relationship development, Twitter is one of the most popular and fastest growing websites on the Internet today. Twitter is a pitch free zone, don’t bother pitching your products or service, think and write frequently and consistently. Be sure to offer value, how can you help your followers.

Facebook

Social media marketing, actually, marketing in general shouldn’t be about you!

Yes I said it, in fact your company isn’t about you, it’s everything to do with your customer or client. Your website isn’t about you it should be about your clients or customers problems and how you can solve them.

A strategy to leverage Facebook is to create groups around the problem you solve, not the product or service you offer. People aren’t looking for the solution by name, they are searching for the solution to their problem, so start by talking about their problems .

YouTube

Know it, Like it and Trust it…If “you can’t believe everything that you hear,” “seeing is believing” and a picture is worth a thousand words, then video must be the “it”.

Done right, you can connect with, and get your audience to know, like and trust you.

Again, we are in a NO Pitching Zone, where people are more concerned with content and value than hearing what you have to offer. In videos, be yourself, talk about the problem your target audience may be having and ways you can help solve them. Educational videos position you as the expert and help you attract the right people, they also help people solve their problems, making you look like problem solver.

Bringing it All Together

Think about it, what we are addressing here is the need for communication with the people you want to get in front of, how to leverage you website better how to leverage all of these people flocking to these social media sites. How to get your message in front of them without pissing them off and just posting advertisements Social media isn’t just a new way to communicate, it’s a completely different culture and needs to be approached carefully when used as a marketing tool for your business.

Before jumping in and starting a campaign, learn each piece of the triangle’s culture first, social media users want value, not fluff and advertisements.

By Dan Beldowicz
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Dan Beldowicz is the Senior Marketing Consultant at Single Throw Internet Marketing. Online for over 11 years, Dan is helping companies develop websites that generate business and social media campaigns that connect with customers. Follow Dan on Twitter at http://twitter.com/danbeldowicz or on the Single Throw Blog.

Facebook Used to Make Money Online

October 18, 2008 By Sherry Tingley

Brian Campbell made $25,000 in 21 days on Facebook

Brian Campbell made an initial claim on his Facebook page that he could make $10,000 in 37 days.

Well, he surpassed his original claim and made $25,000 in 21 days. He decided to pay it forward and gifted John Chow $10,000.

So, how do you make money using Facebook?

To begin with, sign up for an account and learn how to use various applications of Facebook to reprint your website blog feed, find and communicate with friends, post videos, provide valuable content to your visitors and provide leadership to anyone who wants to improve their financial condition.

History of the Development of the Facebook Website

In 2008, Forbes Magazine declared the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, 24 years-old, the youngest self-made billionaire on earth with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion U.S. dollars. Described as a young geeky computer programmer, Mark is the mogul who is guiding the extraordinary growth of Facebook.

In 2006, Yahoo offered to buy Facebook for a billion dollars, but Mark Zuckerberg declined. Microsoft then made him an offer of $240 million dollars to gain 1.6% of the company. Based on this information, some analysts came to the conclusion that Facebook is worth $15 Billion dollars. Not all analyst agree on that valuation.

Mark Zuckerberg is not new to the field of computer programming. He wrote his first software program in the 6th grade. In high school he was approached by both Microsoft and AOL due to a hacking project he was involved in. He decided to go to Harvard University instead.

He built the original Facebook site in two weeks, while attending Harvard. Within a short period of time, more than 2/3 of the student body at Harvard was using the program. Within four months they had launched the program to over 40 colleges. He expanded Facebook to be used in high schools and then in 2006, he opened it up to the public.

Facebook now has more than 700 employees, has hired a lawyer, shares more than ten billion photos, has 100-million-plus users and is connecting people with each other like they have never been able to connect before.

Facebook Helps Entrepreneurs

It has been said that marketing in 2008 begins with conversations and what better way to have conversations with people than being an active member of the Facebook community? People around the world are using Facebook to connect with each other for social purposes and that provides the ultimate medium to network and share your personal recommendations for a huge variety of products and purposes. What kind of marketing system can you create on Facebook?

Watch the interview with Mark Zuckerberg on 60 Minutes here:

Updated October 21, 2013

In 2013, Facebook and Google reached an agreement about advertising. In a few months, Google will be able to buy ads on the Facebook ad exchange. A similar agreement was also made with Amazon.com. With Facebook being the advertiser’s nirvana, this may be the biggest surge forward to this date.

Forbes magazine, Sept., 2013 reported Zuckerberg to be worth $19 billion coming in a #20 of the Forbes 400 richest Americans.