CRUSH – Your one and only source for juicy social media news in four minutes or less. Don’t forget to join us on Facebook and Twitter, and get your daily crush at www.commonsensenms.com As promised, we’ve got the latest on the debate heating up over Facebook privacy. U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is adding fuel to [...]

CRUSH – Bringing you the latest in social media news in four minutes or less. And in our own exciting news – we’ve gone HD, making our crushing capabilities that much clearer. Enjoy! Don’t forget to join us on Facebook and Twitter, and get your daily crush at www.commonsensenms.com Facebook took center stage this week [...]

CRUSH is a fast and fun weekly round-up of social media news – Join us on Facebook to keep up with all the latest. What was this week’s theme among your favorite social networking sites? Change. Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook are all rolling out a handful of new features. Including Twitter’s addition of “most popular [...]

Facebook Backup Plan It may not occur to you but have you ever though about backing up data from your Facebook account? Recently for some odd reason Facebook has decided to go Battlestar Glitchtastica on some of my friends recently to the point of having some of my friends completely lose their Facebook account information [...]

There will always be critics, haters and naysayers out there in the real world and online world. How many times have we heard sayings like: “I don’t care what people are doing or where they are going, don’t tell the world on Facebook/Twitter” The funny thing is mostly the people who do complain about this [...]

Social Media Scene Kids This is a Fun Post I am merely writing about due to the fact of “Web Stereotypes” out there, it came about when I overheard people discussing about how they dislike “Group A” so much and how they can’t stand “Group B” in a local Starbucks.  So In my head, I [...]

  The Blame Game Over the years, there has been many articles written about how certain Social Networks were causes for certain events. Below are a few examples: Mashable writes about how Facebook Can Get You Fired, Dumped, And Yes, Evicted Gawker explains how a bank intern gets fired because of Facebook. Another story of getting fired [...]

  Facebook Adults Vs Myspace Teens So recently Facebook has surpassed Myspace in unique visitor count with a total of 150 million visitors.  It wasn’t too long ago where Myspace was king and Facebook was just a rookie. There are many reasons and theories how Facebook over took the throne of Myspace.  The one thing [...]

Guest Blogger Tina Merritt Tina is a good friend of mine who is a Real Estate Agent & Internet Marketing Trainer for Long & Foster Realtors, Founder of Wolkia a consulting company for Real Estate Agents embracing Technology, Activerain Blogger, Awesome Mother & a Virginia Tech Hokies fan. I was honored to have her guest [...]

      Google Friend Connect Earlier this week on December 15th 2008, Google’s Official Blog wrote a post on how Twitter was integrated with Google Friend Connect service.  This allows Twitter users now to sign in and join in with this social networking service by using Twitter Ids now so you tweet about the [...]

  Google Friend Connect officially launched in May 12, 2008 [via Google Press Center] Google Friend Connect is in BETA stage at the moment and requires people to register to be white-listed to use the service.  Since my blog is fairly new anyways I figured I give it a shot and find out if this [...]