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5 Things Never To Do On Amazon.com

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So you’re at the figurative checkout counter of Amazon.com, groceries and gadgets and George Foreman grill in your e-shopping cart, and you’re ready to charge your credit card. As you hover your mouse cursor over the final “Purchase” button, however, a single drop of nervous sweat forms above your temple. The question materializes in your mind, as you begin to fret: “Am I paying too much for this stuff?”

On Amazon, or any online shopping store, finding the lowest price can be difficult, not to mention nerve-wracking. That’s why we’ve put together these four things you should always remember when shopping on Amazon. The tips herein should help you make better purchasing decisions and ensure that you’re buying your items at an optimal time and price.

Here are our four best tips and tricks for shopping on Amazon. Your wallet (if it could, in fact, both talk and experience a feeling of gratitude) will thank you later:

Facebook Has 83 Million ‘Fake’ Or Duplicate Users

Category: Social, Technology Tags: BBC, CNET, facebook, Facebook 83 Million Fake Account, Facebook 83 Millions Fake Users, Facebook Active Users, Facebook Bots Advertising, Facebook Fake Advertising, Facebook Fake Profiles, Facebook Fake Users, Facebook News, Facebook Public Filing, Facebook Users Fake, Fake Users Facebook, Indonesia, Percentage, Social network service, Turkey, United States Leave a Comment

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In its company filings published this week,Facebook revealed that more than 83 million of its users are ‘fake,’ CNET reports.

Last week, in its first quarterly earnings report as a public company, the social networking site announced that it has 955 million monthly active users and 543 million monthly active mobile users.

But this week, tucked away in the company filings, Facebook has revealed that 8.7 percent of these accounts are likely fake.

More than half of these “fake” accounts are duplicate profiles, while 2.4 percent are “user-misclassifed” (think: pets and memes) and 1.5 percent are considered “undesirable” accounts, such as those created by spammers.

Why We Quit Facebook

Category: Social, Technology Tags: American Customer Satisfaction Index, Bartlett, comScore, Dear John letter, facebook, Facebook Users, Josh Marshall, New York Observer, New York Post, Quit Facebook, social media, Stop Facebook Leave a Comment

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It turns out people leave Facebook the same way they lived Facebook: with lots and lots of sharing.

Artist Man Bartlett posted a blog earlier this weekcalled “Why I Deleted My Facebook Account,” which marks the latest installment in the burgeoning genre of Facebook-quitter confessionals. Call them the de-Facement diaries.

Usually when we decide to stop doing something online, we just stop. We unplug, we close the window, delete the app, or just never come back. But like a four-year relationship that suddenly bites the dust, leaving Facebook apparently merits an exegesis of what went wrong and why. And just like a messy, acrimonious breakup, it’s always, “It’s not me, it’s you.

How to Create and Remember Strong Passwords

Category: Social, Technology Tags: CNET, Declan McCullagh, facebook, how to, internet explorer, LastPass, LastPass Password Manager, Password Hackers, Password Protection, Password Protection Tips, Passwords, Protecting Passwords, Remembering Passwords, RoboForm, Strong Passwords, yahoo Leave a Comment

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This article was updated from one that appears on ConnectSafely.org after the Yahoo password breach on July 12, 2012

A strong and confidential password is essential, not just for financial sites, but for social networking sites too. With social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, there’s the danger of people faking their way into the site and posting something embarrassing about you or others. They could use your account for hate speech or to bully or defame another person or put something on your site that jeopardizes your reputation or even your safety. Another risk is that they could use your online profile to assume your identity as part of a con, such as logging into a person’s Facebook account and using it to solicit money from his friends to a “friend” out of a tight spot.

Yoga Teacher, Fired From Job At Facebook Over Smartphone Ban

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Alice Van Ness, Alice Van Ness Yoga, Cisco Systems, facebook, Facebook Fires Teacher Over Cell Phone, Facebook Fires Teacher Over Smartphone Ban, Facebook Fires Yoga Instructor, Facebook Yoga, Facebook Yoga Instructor Fired, Hinduism, LinkedIn, Menlo Park California, MSNBC, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Chronicle, Smartphone Yoga Teacher Fired, Teacher Fired, Van Ness, Yoga Teacher Fired, Yoga Teacher Fired Facebook, Yogi Fired Leave a Comment

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It’s common practice to be asked to turn off your smartphone during a fitness class. But one Bay Area yoga instructor’s device ban cost her a job at Facebook.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Alice Van Ness routinely started her classes at the social networking company’s Menlo Park campus with a request that students stow their phones.

In March, one student started fiddling with her device at the front of the class while in the middle of an acrobatic half-moon pose, MSNBC reports.

Although Van Ness didn’t say anything to the student, she did give a disapproving look. And the look didn’t go unnoticed.

Facebook to target ads based on what mobile apps we use

Category: Social, Technology Tags: facebook, Facebook Connect, Facebook features, LinkedIn, Mobile, Mobile device, Privacy, Sheryl Sandberg, Social networks, WSJ Leave a Comment

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Do you use your Facebook account to log onto places like LinkedIn and Yelp from your phone?

If so, get ready to start seeing ads in your mobile device’s Facebook News Feed that will be targeted based on your mobile app usage.

Here’s how it will work, according to the Wall Street Journal: if you like to play Zynga Inc.’s “Words with Friends,” your mobile News Feed will soon target you with ads for yet more Zynga games.

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