Category: Social Media

First of all Facebook is not hacked.

Nor there’s a data leaked.

The whole huh-ha about Cambridge Analytica, FB users’ privacy crisis, and Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress on main stream media is entertaining. Watching Mark’s responses to some of the questions remind me (a lot) of the movie “The Social Network”.

Many of these questions and writings are focusing on the shallows or issues that don’t matter.

When you are ready to dive deeper, I suggest reading:

• Why (almost) everything reported about the Cambridge Analytica Facebook ‘hacking’ controversy is wrong by Chris Kavanagh
• The big data panic by Felix Simon

Recent Shareaholic traffic report indicates that web traffic pattern is shifting from social to search in 2017. Pinterest, Google, and Instagram came out as the big winners as Facebook share of visits dropped ~8% in 2017. Social network, in a whole, is no longer the biggest traffic driver for the 250,000+ sites (this blog included) using Shareaholic app. Instead, search is.

Search finally had a comeback year and overtook Social as the top traffic driver within our network.

Something in my to-do/wish list: A perfect LinkedIn profile.

Some quick takeaways

• Write catchy headlines on your job position.
• Include industry you work in.
• Publish/syndicate posts on LinkedIn (BTW LinkedIn is a steady traffic source to WHSR)
• Go into details (use rich medias!) on past job history.
• Reorder skills and place important ones on top.
• Volunteer experience matters – 42% hiring managers view volunteer experience as formal work experience.

The 10 Tips to Perfect LinkedIn Profile

Everything Facebook announced at F8 2016
This week Facebook unveiled the future of Messenger, live video, chatbots, artificial intelligence, and Internet-beaming satellites at its annual F8 conference in San Francisco.