Recently Facebook have been experiencing many complains about their privacy policy. This raises concern of several business entities about the security of facebook. Since the number of entrepreneurs have created online stores and support on the social media site designed for their consumers.

Facebook is now at its peak and this also means more development for privacy options, additional applications, quick consumer-concern response and additional staff. Many concerns have been raised against facebook—especially in the user privacy options.

Lately, the Business Herald columnist Deborah Hill Cone’s identity was stolen was dreaded on the complex procedure of closing down an account. This was not new to the social media network and for some celebrities which experienced an identity theft.

Another major problem facebook is confronted with, is the cyber bullying issue which is prevalent in many university belts worldwide. Recently, a delinquent student made a pseudo-profile of a 12 year classmate and posted pornographic pictures, sexual references and racial discrimination.

But despite security issues, an Australian Bank owned by New Zealand, ASB Bank established the first virtual branch on Facebook. Which critics consider as not very pleasing to the image of ASB—concerning a social network with security breach.

But to what extent should Facebook imposed user privacy options? Social media is a broad field and regulations should be appropriate and suitable for every different user or else these could harm the progress of the entity. Experts’ advised that Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg should initialize regional managers.

Perhaps the future of Facebook relies on the ability of its captains in sailing against the stormy ocean. The business world specifically the internet has a changing nature. The previous years, Myspace was the hottest social media network until Facebook grabbed the spot with its unique applications and social media trends.

The question is? Can Facebook cope with the user privacy demands of its consumers? Or will it be superseded by a more secure social media site.

Social media have indefinitely conquered all ages –don’t be surprised when your grandmother has been very inclined with the usage of Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and other social networking sites.

Individuals in the mid-50’s which are social media users have increased its numbers over the years. Facebook alone has catered to ages ranging from 60-74; mostly with the purpose of communicating to some relatives and colleagues.

According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, social media users aging from 50 have grown dramatically by 88 percent all over the years while users aging 65 has doubled their numbers.

Overall, 26 percent of the internet users from 50 to 54 have been using Facebook and other social media networks. Researchers found that most of them go into social networking sites get in touch with their former workmates as they find potential jobs or getting ready for retirement and others for research and age related health issues.

They also concluded that people of all ages get inclined to the usage of social media because it bridges the gap among different age brackets. Video connection, uploaded photos and daily updates connect every family and friends regardless of the distance. Younger generations utilize the social media air with professional networking, continuing education and activism.

Data shows that 92 % of individuals from 50 to 64 and 89 % of individuals aging from 65 above uses e-mail on a regular basis. While baby boomers and elder Americans read their news online. And gradual increase on the individuals over 50 which are inclined on using Twitter.

The study also supposed that more Y generation social media network users will grow monstrously in the upcoming years despite the fact that teenagers invented Facebook and 20+ adults have been its pioneer. And the possibility of taking over youth is just as big as the possibility of catching colds.

The World Wide Web was born in 1995 and two years later, news websites followed suit. But it was not until the mid-2000s that social media sites such as MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Digg and a dozen others were the trend. These social media sites are not just source of get-togetherness and hangout pit stops but they are also one’s virtual connection to just about anything under the sun. Think of the tremendous application social media offer.

1. Source of News – In the past, we only regard sites such as CNN.com and usatoday.com as our source of online news. With social media sites such as twitter, we can now get our news all in one page. Just subscribe online news sites and link it to your twitter page and voila! You can have updates every time you click on your twitter page from all of these news sites that you had bookmarked.

2. Doing Business Online – Before 2005, business models were highly traditional. Then came Amazon.com, whose business pattern is imitated by hundreds of online business sites. Then came social media as a platform for businessmen. Simple yet cost-effective. If you don’t have that much capital, all you need to do is link your business site to other websites. You may employ various online methods too to promote your business site. What’s even better is that if you don’t want to buy your own domain, then you may use your blogger or Multiply account as a platform of your business on the Web.

3. Meeting Friends - It’s really a pleasure to meet new friends online, learn and chat with them. But the best and safer way to gain lots of friends online is through social media groups in which you can have access to their real profile. This is practically a group for everyone like for example Facebook; there is a group category for Catholics, Hippies, Russians, Naturist and even UFO existence theorist.

Travel agents or anyone engage in associated industries, have lately been offered a present on a golden platter which is online social networking. The travel industries have been driven by kind utterance of mouth and comparable forms of personal communication. Twitter, Facebook, and other online social networking methods are good example for Internet Marketing in regards with travel and tourism.

Now a day Facebook is an outstanding example. You can create a Facebook Business Page or group that executes a variety of tasks for you. You have a possibility to “yielding sell”. Lucky for us, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, and all other online social networking make it simple to expand “them” to include millions.

When I take a research on Google I found that these days, traveling by air to other countries are easier than you can end your thoughts. Plus there are literally thousands of destinations in over a dozen countries to choose from. Some of the hottest destinations nowadays are Trinidad and Tobago, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Singapore and the United States.

There are many airlines available every day to go to these countries. Some of the airlines which offer real quality service yet have got the most reasonable air fares are Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Continental Airlines and Pegasus Airlines.
Some of these airlines only offer domestic flights within the United States but most of them offer inter-Atlantic flights such as the Southwest Airlines flights.

Lastly, I can really recommend online social networking sites for further information and ideas to make your travel light and easy.

What’s your favorite Social Media site? It depends of what kind of person you are. If you like watching shared videos then I recommend Youtube.com is the right Social Media site for you. You can watch movie clips, product demos, business tips, funny advert or prank clips (one of my favorite theme in watching) and even funny events in the Hollywood sphere. Click here for more categorized videos

Like what happened in the Video Music Awards of 2009, it was totally a stage prank. When Taylor Swift won the best female video awards and she was in the middle of thanking her fans and amazingly surprise about the awards, suddenly Kayne West grab the microphone from her and start taking “Yo Taylor, I’m, I, really happy for you, I let you finish BUT Beyonce had the one best video of all time” and end up with Whatever-gesture.

I really like the reaction of Taylor Swift, she was just standing and sympathazing the crowd to cheer for her and it worked. Beyonce Knowles won the best video of the year, Kayne West maybe then the best speculator but at the wrong time.

Guess what? Social Media sphere really helps celebrities in promotion, as Taylor thanking her followers in Twitter and Myspace for her last message.

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We just can’t deny it; Michael Jackson still reigns supreme even in death. The King of Pop passed away at a critical time when he was preparing for one of the major points of his musical career – This Is It, a series of 50 concerts to top his successful, colorful, and controversial career. However, due to Jackson’s untimely death, This Is It did not come into bloom.

This Is It may not have pushed through but the preparations for the event were well documented. The video footage of the preparations were collected and turned into a documentary aptly called This Is It. The documentary is set for release on October 28 and the trailer was first shown at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 14.

MySpace, one of the top social networks in the world today, has released a high definition (HD) version of the trailer. The trailer features costumes, sets, green screen effects, videos, and Michael Jackson’s signature moves.

Michael also said of what people could expect from his supposed set of concerts:
“This is an adventure, a great adventure. We want to take them places that they’ve never before. We want to show them a time that they’ve never seen before.”

It’s so sad This Is It the series of concerts did not come into fruition but many thanks to MySpace for the This Is It documentary trailer below.

Michael Jackson’s This Is It in HD

MAKING your website search and social media-friendly is so simple that it doesn’t entail any tech geekie to do that. The first factor is so obvious that you may have missed it a hundred times – fresh content! Why yes! Obviously, your website ranks higher in search engines if it is refreshed every now and then.

If you want your website to be always number one in search engine rankings, then you update every day if possible. Don’t just blabber about anything though, make it senseful. Fresh content doesn’t mean that you bombard your website with text. Fresh content may also mean audio or video.

The next factor for a searchable website would be the sense of the content of the website. And that would include inputting in interaction with website viewers such as forum threads as well as allowing even anonymous viewers to comment. If numerous comments enter into your website, the more probability that this trending would be picked up by search engines.

The third factor would be to add a supplemental webpage or two to your main website. This may come in the form of a blog. You can even use Wordpress or Blogger for that. And you can also utilize popular social networking sites to promote your webpage because membership for these is free. Examples are Plurk, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace or in case of the Philippines , Friendster.

And the last factor that would affect the searchability of your site is its ability to be easily linked or embedded to other sites. Don’t forget this factor as well.

Recently, myriad numbers of social media sites are emerging. Some of them don’t have an appeal to the social networking users. This is because most of these users are confused what would be the best social media site to use for their business, to communicate with their friends, for job hunting and more. Today, there are top 5 appointed social networking sites that have been used by many users. And these are the following sites:

Facebook—despite the reality that Facebook never swayed in the previous months still its level have never been reach yet by Twitter. Recently Facebook introduced various features that Twitter doesn’t have.

Twitter—it never failed yet as a microblogging social site. When you were looking for updates about news, lifestyle, celebrity talks and more, Twitter is always in.

LinkedIn—since it was established, LinkedIn has been renowned as the social networking site for businessmen and for those who were looking for a job.

Myspace—since it was established Myspace is still on. Despite the surveys that it slows down in this recent year, Myspace is still the top choice of the artists and musicians.

Ning—one of the best social networking sites for those who love blogging. There are millions of users of Ning because of its features where users can create its own niche or specific topic. This is the best site if you would want to create a group of your own.

Since web browsing has been the latest trend in gaining information today, social network sites have a big role in communications. These sites will help us re-connect with friends whom we haven’t seen for a long time, get updates from friends and relatives from distant countries and meet people whom we have same interests with. Because of its demands nowadays, social networking sites have increase in numbers but there are those network sites that are phenomenal and very useful in networking and communicating.
Here are some social networking sites that you should join to help you connect with friends and network with other people.

Facebook- is one the most visited social networking sites in the world. It has 70,278,000 unique visitors as of May 2009 according to comScore based on US Internet users. Facebook focus more on interactions and usage of their sites. Users can create profiles including photos and lists of personal interests, exchange private or public messages, join groups of friends, become a fan of the fan pages and even play games (Mafia, Poker, Farm Town, Pet Society, etc.)

MySpace- is the largest social networking site in the world. It offers networking with friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for all ages internationally. MySpace focuses on the music industry so users can get updates to concerts and albums of artist and look for bands or singers that they like. Unlike Facebook, users can customize their MySpace profile according to their taste.

Bebo- is a social networking site that is more popular in Ireland and UK. Most of their users are from younger generations. Bebo’s profile is also customizable which includes the “About me” section, comments section, photo albums, friends list and other modules of you favorites and interest.

Hi5- is a social networking site that is currently the twenty-fifth most popular website according to Alexa Internet. Like Bebo and MySpace, users can also customize their profiles according to their taste. Users profile also display user information, interests and comments from friends.

Tagged- is one of the fast rising social networking sites. Users can customize profiles, send messages, leave comments, post bulletins, customize status, browse photos, watch videos, play games, give gifts, give tags, chat and make friends.

Social media blogger Samir Bawani said many marketers today are still confuse how they could effectively market their products online. Simply because these marketers cannot yet differentiate what really works right now. Bawani believes thinking about the foundation is what makes social media effective. He said social media marketing is not just putting your account on Facebook, Twitter or other big and respected social media networking sites. Here’s what Mr Balwani believes the basic fundamentals of effective social media campaigns:

1. Always listen – Listening to other experts when to engage in social media is also very important. Bawani advised that internet marketers failed because they don’t actually make a good study – instead they just jump in right away because they’re too excited to market their products online. It’s just like a man marketing his TV sets when the people of the area are looking for affordable cars. Truly, social media will take time and the marketer should have patience before he can be noticed online especially that the competition is strong.
2. The brand is public – Just because the brand is public you should be able to effectively market the brand. Once the brand’s message is already out in the market you will have no control about it.
3. Don’t forget personality – The people around you are also important. This means you should also empower them to speak for you and sell your product lines. What’s so special about your brand should be passed on to the consumers what they can say. Bawani’s favorite brand personality is Mr. Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos. His reported style and humor was instrumental in building the Zappos community.
4. Creativity wins – If you are so creative in social media marketing then it would be your own strategies that can make wonders for your products. Although it’s quiet a bit difficult at first, but once you become professional internet marketer, then you will believe in yourself you can do the job. It‘s simply because some bloggers are already preparing for this one. They knew marketing online is not just Facebook, Twitter or MySpace. Creativity means making your own original gimmick how you can drive traffic and market your products.