May 26, 2012

Twitter or Facebook?

social media

Facebook or Twitter? I currently have accounts with both. Also with identica, Tumblr and Type Pad. Twitter is the one I use most. The Twitter updates also feed through automatically to my wall on Facebook. Let’s take a look at the differences between Twitter and Facebook, bearing in mind this is my private view and [...]

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Regulate Facebook and ban hate sites

Ban Facebook hate sites

A cadet reporter came across a new Facebook group this week that was dedicated to denigrating a local teenager, let’s call him Joe. Categorised under “Organizations – clubs and societies”, the group was called “People who think Joe is annoying”. There was a photo of Joe wearing his cricket club cap, with a red line [...]

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Facebook vanity URL

Facebook now offers personal URLs.

I chose mgorey for my Facebook vanity URL this morning: www.facebook.com/mgorey. I wasn’t up at 2am when the personalised addresses became available in Australia, but having a relatively uncommon surname has its advantages. I now have the same username for Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Skype and Facebook. I don’t actually use Facebook much. The wall content [...]

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