One of the ways, we as humans, like to communicate is still the telephone. In the world of social networking, who knows the reality of who the other person is on the other side of your conversations is. That is until you have met them in real life. So how do we get to that…
While we were recording Episode 9 of TheSocialGeeks podcast, one of the sites mentioned was UserNameCheck.com , a cool utility. It basically runs through almost 70 social sites (last time I counted) and verifies if your desired username is available. From there you could pick a new name that was open everywhere or go add…
Interestingly enough, Oprah had a show on that brought up an issue of their child receiving unwanted text messages on the child’s phone. While we make look at a simple text as harmless, the social pressure and stalking issue raises a thought. How do kids handle and protect themselves from stalking via SMS messages. it…
SocialStalking: The act of a person, or group of persons to gain information about a person, with or without their knowledge. If we look at actual definitions: “the willful, malicious and repeated following or harassing of another person.” “a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily“ Some people are actually stating they are…
With the launch of this exciting new resource site around social network safety and stalking, it will hopefully answer many of the privacy questions you have in the social networking/media space and how to counteract some of them. A sister site is also coming right along side.
