Information Technology & Social Media News

In case you missed this from Mashable last week, great information on 845 million active users on social networks. 

 

**More than 66% of adults are connected to one or more social media platforms, but who exactly are these people?

Via janlgordon

Start 2012 by Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions

 

Try guessing how many apps have permissions to access your private information... Now click the icons and get ready for a surprise!

 

Obviously many of us are very involved in the online world. We have Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Instagram and the list goes on. Over the course of time, we have given authorization to specific apps (applications) which plug into our various social media platforms. Things like Hootsuite, iPad, Twitter apps for Facebook etc. In fact, we probably don't even remember what we have authorized over the time we have been involved with social media! I think you are going to be stunned when you see how many apps have access to your private information! It is time to clean up your information act

 

Quick video tutorial on how you can clean up your social media applications in about 2 minutes!

 

Read the full article: http://kimgarst.com/how-clean-up-your-social-permissions-quickly-easily#comment-2027

Via Martin Gysler