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How To Promote Your Favourite Facebook Pages!

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Did you know you can help promote other peoples Facebook Fan Pages on your own F.B Fan Page? Not only is this great for your community but also great for helping out another business to get noticed and get “Likes”. Once you get your own Facebook Fan Page up and running, you should then log [...]

How To Use Friends List Feature in Facebook

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Possibly taking a leaf out of Google+ circles idea, Facebook now has a list feature that can actually work. Previously they had lists but you could only post to 20 people at a time. With this new feature you can post to 1000 and have as many as 100 different lists. Here’s where to find [...]

Anti-Social Networking. Leonie Smith Interviewed For Peninsula Living Magazine

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I was recently interviewed for Peninsula Living Magazine’s September 2011 issue below is the interview. Texting, Facebook, instant messaging and Twitter are now an integral part of most people’s lives but rather than promoting relationships they may be doing just the opposite. Gillian Currie reports.   Follow Me on Twitter! Click here → @_LeonieGSmith   [...]

Should You Use Your Real Name On The Internet?

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Fake names…. There’s a lot of discussion going on at the moment around the issue of using what some people call “Fake” names on the Internet, particularly around Google+ which has outlawed them, as has Facebook, although on Facebook you can set up a Fan Page under your “Fake” Name. On Twitter you can call [...]

You Can’t Automate Cyber Safety

You Can't Automate Cyber Safety

Filth & Magic Apps In the war against Cyber Bullying and Online FILTH! I’m constantly hearing parents asking for suggestions for computer timers and programs for blocking certain sites from young eyes. Most program developers would love to invent a fail safe app for parents to use to keep their kids totally safe online, (they’d [...]

Real Friends Don’t Back-Stab On Facebook!

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It used to be that when you had a disagreement or an argument with a friend, the worst that could happen is that they would “bad mouth” you behind your back. Local rumours might be spread, hurtful yes, but in many cases repairable, if on a small scale. If you were in the public eye, [...]

Facebook Dilemma, Should My Tween Be On Facebook?

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From my article on ABC Technology + Gaming this week. Should kids under 13 years of age be allowed on Facebook? Should the age limit for Facebook, which is now 13+ be raised to 18+? From a recent article on Dawn.com: “WASHINGTON: Some 7.5 million of the 20 million minors who used Facebook in the [...]