The ever popular FaceBook has decided to make a few changes to its design, for a preview of the new look go visit http://new.facebook.com

They have done a nice job of opening it up, appears a more spacious while actually being more cluttered. They did a good job of actually hiding that fact, although with a popular site like FaceBook, more is less. More stuff in less space makes everything easier, they give you more updates, regarding your friend in the same spot, for example when a number of your friends change their DP, is shows you maybe 5 or so, on my page it is showing the last 17 changes. Although I highly doubt they are all extremely recent, either that or my friends were really bored.

Although hey, the link is listed above, so why not take a look yourself, it works with all your old details and shows you all the information that your old style would with a bit extra.

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Governments are allowing companies access to users facebook profiles of those who are applying for jobs at said companies. The HR departments use this information for personality profiling and then helping the decide weather or not to call you for an interview.

For the profiling they use your installed applications, groups you have joined, photos u have uploaded and even messages in your message box. Basically everything you do on facebook. Setting your profile to limited or private does not help and companies can access this information with a simple application form.

As for the full list of governments allowing businesses access to these profiles i am uncertain, i do however know that South Africa is one of them.

It has also happened that in America 2 people have been arrested, prosecuted and sentenced off information retrieved from facebook messaging, something you would consider a “private” conversation.

1 case was pre-meditated murder, a woman was telling a friend in a message in detail of how she had planned to kill her husband. He is now alive and happy, she is in jail serving life for attempted pre-mediated murder.

A second case was a young man bragging to his friend of how he molested a little girl, also in jail.

BE CAREFUL what you say on facebook, even better, don’t break the law.

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I use stumbleupon everyday but its starting to suck now. For some reason these really crap sites get through. I mean sites that say “welcome to wordpress, this is your first post”. Now that would not be such a big problem if it did not happen every 5 minutes. But these really crap sites are starting to show up.

I think Stumbleupon is being overloaded with spammers that work in teams. Its easy to get people to work with you and submit things to stumbleupon.

Hopefully something will be done before stumbleupon becomes a playground for spammers and advertisers to waste our stumbleupon time.

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Yesterday I was clicking around so much on Facebook, yes the site that I used to hate, but now I find it pretty useful since I realized what it could do since watching the Police brutality raid in Stellenbosch group on Facebook. Facebook can be very useful especially for things like getting people together for events etc. Yes yes I know its obvious but for someone that has not been using Facebook at all this comes as a surprise for me.

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Anyway as you can see by this image I did manage to max out the number of messages I am allowed to send on Facebook. I could go further and send that message but I did not want my account disabled since I just discovered the usefulness of Facebook.

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My opinion on twitter is that you can rather spend you time more productive. Please read on why I say this.

Twitter is a internet phenomenon in the same way people freaked out because of myspace a few years ago. But is your myspace account any worth now? I dont think so. Twitter can benefit you now but your main focus should not be on twitter but on your blog. What is the use of having that many followers? What will it benefit your future? Nothing. Your twitter account will be a blur on the internet 10 years from now. Except if they keep up with the new things arising on the internet twitter will also become a internet dinosaur one day.

I am just saying. Spend your time wisely. If you are going to be twittering just remember that it can get old one day and the time you spend on twitter might be time wasted.

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Using stumbleupon to get more traffic might not be such a good idea if you are aiming for targets. First of all when your page gets stumbled you are not likely to make 100’s of dollars since most stumbleupon users just get what they stumbled for and move on. If you thought the attention span of a normal browser was short, you have not thought about stumbleupon browsers. Not the software, I am talking about the user. The average browser’s attention span is five seconds and some stumblers, if they dont immediately see the point in the stumble they just go right on. Page stumbles can get lots of traffic but its not traffic most bloggers want that is in it for the money. Bloggers who blog for money wants to see conversion rates and high click rates. Meaning you want to see more people click on ads for less traffic. You dont want to have thousands of visitors and no clicks on your blog. That defeats the point of running a professional blog. So what I have learned is that you can get a lot of back links by getting stumbled and get the page ratings up for that specific page but as for traffic and making money that traffic is useless.

My experience. I had a blog and one picture got stumbled and some other content. My traffic was 30 000 for that page ( not on this blog) that day. I did not have one click on the ads although the page got stumbled not only the picture. While less traffic that came from search engines got me more money than all the stumbles.

One thing that will make Stumbleupon traffic worthwhile is if you have brilliant stuff to read and you catch the attention of the Stumbler quick enough to get them to read more content and maybe join the rss feed. That is one of the few ways I have tried personally which did in fact work.

What is your experience?

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Since I have left facebook and decided to work on blogs rather than waste my time on facebook I have a bit of money in this very short while. Its been about a month blogging full time for me and things are picking up speed really fast now.

Leaving facebook and all the social network sites behind has meant for me that I can blog full time. No more wasting time online. Life is to short to work on crap that you might just abandon in a short while when it becomes a old space on the internet that used to be cool.

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