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How Do You Get Facebook’s New Graph Search?

I got Graph Search!

Facebook’s “Graph Search” is slowly being rolled out here in Australia. Facebook’s Graph Search is a new way to search Facebook so that you can use Facebook profiles with very personal details to pin-point and drill down exactly who you want to find, weather they are a friend or not. This new search uses your [...]

Facebook Tagging Approvals! Only half way there

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UPDATE: 28/11/12 Facebook have changed the wording around the Tagging privacy settings slightly, but as a colleague Kim Randall rightly pointed out to me, this privacy setting was always set to work ONLY on your timeline NOT OTHERS. It appears that you could only ever control tagged photos or posts from appearing on your own [...]

Pittwater Business Limited Networking Breakfast Featuring Leonie Smith Social Media and Cyber Safety

Leonie Smith Cyber Safety Lady At Pittwater Business Limited Breakfast

I’m honoured to be presenting a talk at the October Pittwater Business Limited Breakfast at Bayview Golf Club on the 17th October 2012.  This is a unique talk by Leonie Smith who was featured on 60 Minutes last Sunday for the Charlotte Dawson Interview on Bullying and Trolls on Twitter. Leonie expertise as a social [...]

When Will There Be A Facebook Backlash?

Facebook R.I.P

Will Facebook’s drive for us to share absolutely everything about our lives be the death of it?   It’s not a matter of if there will be a substantial backlash but when, as far as I can tell. Facebook has just bought a facial recognition company Face.com it seems they determined to make it “easier” [...]

Are Your Employees Embarrassing You Online?

Olympic Swimmers Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk Posted this on Facebook and Twitter

  All users of Social Media should be aware of how public their posts and private details are, but none more so than you as a business owner and your employees. The Australian Olympic committee either didn’t give athletes Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk (seen right) instruction on their social media use in regards to privacy [...]

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   [...]

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 [...]