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Slowing Social Media Amazon Spammers
The Daily Dot published a very interesting and telling interview with a spammer on Pinterest, which is a relatively new social media site for posting photos. This spammer floods the site with fake accounts to increase popularity of his posts, which points to an Amazon.com affiliate account. His engagement on the site is purely for posting affiliate links. While he’s not breaking any laws, people like that tend to ruin things for the rest of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Spam Files
3025269252 Phone Number Texting You?
Yesterday I wrote about a text I received for a free iPad2 giveaway. Today I received almost the exact same text from 302-526-9252. Is this place a scam and is this giveaway legit? Let’s take a look at the text itself, received today: … Read entire article »
Filed under: Who Called Me?
4802367582 Phone Number Bugging You?
I received a text on March 25 from the phone number 480-236-7582 with an offer to win a free iPad if I went to a website and entered a code. Who is this and is this offer legit? … Read entire article »
Filed under: Who Called Me?
Would You Hand Over Your Passwords to Your Employer?
The shocking practice by some companies and government entities of asking an existing or prospective employee for their log-in info for their email or social accounts is on the rise, and the story is spreading this week. As reported by the Associated Press and others, this obvious invasion of privacy has been able to exist because it hasn’t been challenged properly. Until now. Facebook, often on the wrong end of the privacy debate, has decided … Read entire article »
Filed under: Social Media
Why Google Plus Isn’t A Failure. A Response.
CBS News published an article written by John Baldoni on March 13th, entitled “Why Google Plus is a Failure” which states the author’s belief that the social network is all but dead. Here I will present my rebuttal to the article and other Google Plus naysayers. Taking Sides? Before we even get to the body of the article, we’re met with a headline firing the author’s warning shot of his allegiance in this debate. His claims of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Social Media
Porter Stansberry: End of America or End of Truth?
A few months ago I wrote about the ubiquitous television ad from Stansberry Research that began with the ominous “A very wealthy American…” So I finally saw an updated version of the commercial from Stansberry Research, aka Porter Stansberry, aka Frank Porter Stansberry, aka End of America. I was wondering when I’d see this back on TV, and wasn’t surprised when I saw the slightly updated version of his gloom-and-doom ad recently. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Scams & Deception
Can You Really Get 3000 Twitter Followers in 1 Day?
It’s hard to avoid spam on Twitter, but lately I’ve been seeing more and more of the “gain 3000 followers in one day” type to the point that I just have to say something. There was one particular person I noticed who kept showing up in my timeline over and over. Looking at his profile, I found he was tweeting the same link every minute, all regarding getting thousands of followers in one day. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Social Media
Blogging Stats: Useful Tools or Distraction?
One of the fun aspects of building a blog is checking your stats to see how popular you are, how many hits you’ve made, and how much money is coming in. All of that is great until you find yourself distracted with checking the stats far too often or being driven solely by their results. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Blogging
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