Allen Lew’s Thoughts

Quick Sprout has some tips on using Facebook to help your career. Reminds me of Guy Kawasaki’s posts on using LinkedIn like 10 ways to use LinkedIn and his LinkedIn Profile Extreme Makeover. (via Lifehacker)
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So we’ve all done a few of those surveys and our friends do that too. But did you know those kinds of survey’s could lead to people *gasp* finding out our interests *gasp*, particularly *gasp* online predators *gasp*?
From a Dateline NBC article on Myspace:
Stafford: You dont think you gave him any private information?
Amber: No. [...]

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Facebook now does something with the interest data, aggregating it into a Pulse Feature. Fun facts:

33% of Berkeley students prefer The Beatles to Green Day.

18% of male students have moderate political views.
17% of male students are looking for whatever they can get.
57 people have birthdays tomorrow.
124 students poked each other today.
1.4% of Berkeley [...]

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Future Problems with Facebook entries?-
”I would bet that in the 2016 election, somebody’s Facebook entry will come back to bite them,” Steve Jones, head of the communications department at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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