How much weight do you put on the online click to connect? Thoughts on the audacity that social media’s brought into our lives and if relationships are suffering.

So, LinkedIn has this nifty email campaign it sends out to advise you of a connection request. A lesson to never assume what your audience wants or has to offer.

“I spend an inordinate amount of time cleaning-up the mess that a previous firm has left behind.”

Twitter’s been digging forever for monetization opportunities and it appears that partnerships and data access are the path they’ve chosen. Does the LinkedIn addition just add to the keyword-drenched spam potential though status updates?

This blogger’s reaction to social media stalkers…and stalkers in general. Yes, you can be *too* clingy online.

It was those days of my youth where I could spend hours on the phone, talking about everything and nothing at all, that prepped me for my current geekish life as a social media addict.

See, search engines are really no more than eavesdroppers on the web-based conversations of the world. They’re the tabloids of what’s hot and what’s not. They send their little ears (aka web crawlers or spiders) out into the sidewalk cafes of the internet and find out who’s talking about what sites.