Yesterday afternoon, Amanda Arms posted a message on her Facebook wall (see post for the image). I didn’t know Amanda at the time, nor were we Facebook friends…but my wedding photographer was. Around noon, Jennie (who knows I couldn’t turn down a loving pit bull) sent me an email mentioning what she saw on Facebook. I asked her to have Amanda contact me. Around 8pm last night, Michael and I became foster…

After declaring on Monday that I’m going to be using social media as much as possible in my own personal wedding planning, I thought it was fitting for me to post a little something about the groom who changed his Facebook status and tweeted at the alter. Literally…right before the “you may kiss the bride”…

Every now and then someone will ask me — when you’re looking to hire someone, do you really look at their Facebook account? My go to answer is to advise they keep the account on private…because yes, some people DO care what’s on there. But do I? Honestly no. If I look at a person’s social network accounts before an interview, it’s more to get to know them a little better as [...]

Online ad firm uSocial is selling Facebook friends, Twitter followers and more. Basically, you pay them money and they’ll make you APPEAR to be big on the internet. However, I really have a problem with this whole business plan. As numerous people have said many times before, social media is [...]

We all know about brand loyalty. We either like Coke or Pepsi, PC or Mac, Google or Bing…but are social medium fan-bases divided by brand loyalty as well? Or will they become divided as networks like Facebook and Twitter continue to evolve? Last week, Facebook bought Friendfeed and launched Facebook light – two things which somehow seem to be moves [...]

If you’re following me on Twitter, Facebook, or any other social network, chances are you knew that last week, my dog Diesel went missing. He disappeared from my front yard Wednesday night, and by Thursday morning I had lost “ads” posted everywhere I could think of online. We visited the shelter everyday. By Saturday afternoon [...]

Last week a CNN headline read, “[Michael] Jackson dies, almost takes Internet with him.” Google, Perez Hilton, CNN, Facebook, AOL and Twitter all experienced high volumes of traffic and immense lag time. When was the last time you heard of AIM on the verge of crashing? [...]

Two days ago, I blogged about the end of MySpace and the future of social media as a whole. I posed the question: what major social network is the next to go? And who will take its place? Well, ironically I came across an article about a really interesting new social network – Vyoom…and I think it might be coming for Facebook [...]

As I’m sure you’ve all already heard – this week, MySpace will lay off hundreds of its employees and close at least four offices. I can’t say I’m very surprised by the fact that MySpace is on the major decline (I deleted my own personal account over a year ago). However, I wonder now – who’s next? With MySpace soon to be out of the way, which major social network(s) will be the next to go? And what does the future of social media [...]

Yesterday, Mashable reported that Facebook would begin offering vanity URLs (or usernames) this weekend. At first, I thought – cool… facebook.com/nicolevanscoten. But then I started thinking, is Facebook becoming even more like MySpace? Opinions on the Twittersphere are mixed, so I want to know – what do you think? Will Facebook just become full of users with [...]