Author Archives: Terra Higginson

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Does social media makes us better parents?

Generation Xers are raising the first generation of children that will benefit from the information and access provided through Social Media, and I count myself in those parents that have joined in the experiment. I honestly have no idea how my parents or grandparents raised children without the Internet and quick easy access to fellow [...]

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How to Use Twitterfeed to Automate Twitter

There’s not a nice way to say this, so I’m just going to come out and admit that Social Media can take up a lot of your time. I find that I’m always trying to balance the relationships I make online with those in my real life.  It is a juggling act that has a [...]

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Facebook asks do you Like it or LIKE it Like it?

Facebook’s new pages feed asks: “Do you Like it or do you Like it, Like it?” Another day brings another change for Facebook: the new Facebook ‘Pages Feed’ is now available to a select set of users. The new feature is in response to the growing number of complaints that Facebook’s algorithm is unfairly squashing [...]

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The definitive guide for using Facebook lists to maintain your privacy

Facebook lists are one of the great features of the site. For those of us in the social media arena, it can be difficult to decide how to combine our private Facebook lives with our public Facebook lives. I debated between the two extremes of a more-honest-and-open totally private Facebook profile and a social-media-job-search-friendly totally open Facebook profile [...]

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