The 7 Deadly Sins of Social Media – Fast Company
I followed a link from a marketing VP whose profile showed up as a feed I should subscribe to on Twitter. Â That made me think it would be an opportunity for amusing mockery here so I followed the link. Seeing it was a Fast Company story, I got myself set to have a good rant.
Shocked and amazed I say to you; Â It’s a pretty good article. Go read it!
“Be careful of what you post on these social networking sites,” said Capt. Ron Dickerson.
http://www.wmur.com/r/24943582/detail.html
It seems at least 18 of 50 August 2010 burglaries in Nashua N.H. were solved when an off duty cop heard the telltale sound of a known-to-have-have-been-stolen firework.
For the curious, whether I’m home or not, there are platoons of heavily armed Attack Wombats patrolling the entire compound. You have been warned.
– Jon
Tweet This seems a much more civilized way to allow users to Tweet and Facebook your WordPress postings than Share This which includes a lot of tracking functionality.
Again, while I can’t claim to be the highly trained codemonkey, I have learned from my very quickly fixed (less than an hour!) faux pas with Share This and have now added Tweet This to this site.
After reviewing the code, Tweet This seems to do send nothing to or via any third-party sites and, unless configured to use a third-party URL shortener, includes no traffic logging click-thru tracking or similar functionality. It doesn’t appear to load any external .js either.
So, unless somebody educates me to the contrary, I’m going to call this ‘safe’ and leave it deployed. I hope you find it useful.
– Jon
