Archive for the ‘SOCIAL MEDIA’ Category

Top 20 Facebook Messages: My Hit List

ShareTweet The Power of a Pic It’s incredible the effect a Facebook profile picture has on people. When you upload or update one [depending on your privacy settings], your entire list of “friends” gets to know about it – which in turn usually results in a pleasant bombardment of either approving messages and thumbs up’s […]

The Lebanese Blogosphere: Blogs to Blog About!

ShareTweet Being relatively new to the blogosphere, I tend to discover and learn new things about blogging everyday. Not only that, but the amount of random knowledge I’ve accumulated over the last couple of months (from researching), is simply ridiculous; in a good and valuable sort of way. The best part though, is that I […]

Facebook Facts & Figures

ShareTweet February 4th was Facebook’s 6th birthday. Yes, believe it or not, the social networking titan and the most talked about website [actually, the most talked about anything] in the world, is a measly 6 years old! I think that Harvard dropout and boy genius Mark Zuckerberg as well as his roommates do more than […]

The Sh*** My Dad Says Made Me Famous [nG’s 100th POST]

ShareTweet *Twitterati – as defined by the Urban Dictionary: The Tweet elite, whose feeds attract thousands of followers and whose 140-character spews capture the attention of the rapt who doggedly monitor them. *Twitterati – as defined by PCMag.com: The Twitter upper crust. The tweet writers who have thousands of followers. Now that you’re familiar with the term Twitterati (in case you […]

The Different Profiles of Twitter Users

ShareTweet Whether it’s to promote your work, communicate with like-minded individuals, make some great connections, inform your friends what you had for breakfast (please don’t) or simply follow every move or comment that @aplusk, President Obama, or @copyblogger make, Twitter is the place to do so! Its’ usage has grown and developed over the last year as […]

Google Enters Social Networking World With ‘Google Buzz’

ShareTweet we live in the social media age. with more and more communication taking place online, the social web has become the best and preferred way to share interesting things, chat in real time and stay connected to a larger number of people. if you’re a gmail user, you may have recently noticed a new […]

Social Media 101

ShareTweet Seeing how big and popular Social Media has become the last few years and that nittyGriddy is an example of such a site [not the big and popular part – at least not yet ;)], I thought it only necessary and relevant to post a brief 101-style piece on the subject. It’s very probable that […]

The Top Facebook Fiends

ShareTweet Facebook this, Facebook that – it’s always something about frikin’ Facebook! Although I think it’s by far one of the most brilliant inventions on the net, I also sometimes refer to it as the ‘homewrecking site.’ Facebook = a place where friendships start and end, relationships begin and shatter… a community where sharing is […]

Sleep Talkin’ Man – Blog Out Loud Funny!

ShareTweet While reading one of my favorite blogs, Mashable – a well known and highly regarded social media guide, i came across a post they published a few days ago called, “sleep talkin’ man is a viral sensation“. The article directs you to a blog entitled, “Sleep talkin’ man“, which is indeed, as the Mashable author, […]

Is Facebook Watching You?

ShareTweet Is  Facebook watching me? Does the social networking giant know about every profile I visit, every image I view, every private message I send, every person I poke…? Can employees access anyone’s account? I’m sure that every single one of you on Facebook (meaning all 500 million of you) has wondered at one point or […]

Big Names on Twitter

ShareTweet it seems that everywhere you turn, twitter is flying around somewhere! tweet this, retweet that, follow her, dm me, let’s tweetup, what’s trending, #hashtag, bla bla bla… all this ‘twingo’ (twitter lingo) talk has got my head spinning faster than a ten speed ‘twicycle’! it seems that pretty much anybody and everybody is tweeting […]