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Starting today, Facebook is rolling out their Facebook Questions (FQ) feature.  If you've used Yahoo! Answers then you are familiar with the concept - you post a question, and anyone else on Yahoo! Answers can provide and answer, and vice versa.  With FQ, of course, your FQ can be answered by 500 million of your closest friends . The feature will be visible on the left-hand side of your homepage (identifiable with a light bulb).
 
Facebook Question includes some interesting featur ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this week that Facebook had added its 500 millionth member .  Facebook has only been around for six years and in that short time has become the reigning force in Social Media.  To put that number in perspective, 500 million people includes the entire populations of both Brazil and the United States.  
 
For Facebook though, with rapid growth has come bigger issues. A new national survey reveals that Facebook lags behind the insurance and ...

Being able to state your views without stating your name is a favorite way for a lot of people to post their views on websites. The ability to say what you want to say without fear of personal backlash or condemnation is very appealing.

CNN has reported that several newspapers, including the Buffalo News (New York) and the Attleboro Sun Chronicle (Massachusetts), have decided to not allow anonymous or guest postings anymore.  Their reasoning is this: to “raise the level of discourse” on-l ...

To tweet or not to tweet? That is the question. Poor Shakespeare; if he was around today Romeo and Juliet would’ve just tweeted each other about their plans and avoided tragedy, therefore, robbi ng the world of this great love story. Tweeting your every move or thought has become very popular in the last two years. There are more than 100 million tweeters worldwide. But, the question still arises: to tweet or not to tweet?

Tweeting was one of the topics of discussion this week during the openin ...

Changing Your Facebook Privacy Settings – You Are Sharing More Than You Think!

On April 21st of this year, Facebook announced new platform settings.  Some of them are good, and some aren’t so good. Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the new Open Graph protocol. The Open Graph protocol gives any web page the same functionality of a Facebook page. This technology allows the web to determine meaningful connections between people and real-life things.  If you click on a website ...

I GET MOST OF MY BUSINESS FROM REFERRALS, HOW WOULD SOCIAL NETWORKING BENEFIT ME?

Social networking is online business referrals. More people turn to the internet first to find a lawyer than to any other medium, and when they see that a lot of people have a lot of good things to say about you, it could make them more inclined to hire you as their attorney, as compared to an attorney that has no social networking presence.

The end.

Well, not really.

It is more complicated than that, but that is th ...