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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Facebook is now offering journalists the same tools as celebrities – or maybe not.


Facebook is now offering journalists the same tools as celebrities – or maybe not.

September 15, 2015 Kevin E. Dayhoff

On September 10, 2015, I was intrigued to read, “Facebook is now offering journalists the same tools as celebrities” by Benjamin Mullin, on Poynter.

The article began, “Pop quiz: What do Kim Kardashian and Bob Woodward have in common?

“If that question were posed Wednesday, the answer might be that both had written books — one about selfies, the other about presidential self-destruction. But as of today, Kardashian and Woodward have something else in common: both have access to the same suite of exclusive social media tools, privileges that have also been extended to thousands of other journalists.

“Earlier today, Facebook announced it was allowing journalists and others with verified profiles to use Mentions, an app originally intended to empower celebrities to manage their social personas. After Mentions launched in 2014, news outlets dutifully chronicled the list of actors, musicians and professional athletes that flocked to the app, then dubbed a “VIP only” service.

“Now, journalists and public figure whose profiles have been verified by Facebook — as indicated by a little blue check mark — will have access to Mentions. Using the app, they can monitor Facebook chatter about various topics and hold question-and-answer sessions from their phones…”


I immediately took the time to process a Facebook request for be verified as a journalist.

All the while, I kept thinking about the Franz Kafka 1925 classic dystopian fiction, “The Trial.”  

My request was immediately denied… This by media that recognized folks such as Kim Kardashian as an accomplished “authentic public figure,” that meets “Facebook's standards for notability…”

Meanwhile I had posted the Poynter article on my Facebook page… To which a journalist friend, Steven R Berryman, on Facebook remarked, “Yeah right Kevin like where are we going to find any journalists anyway?”

To which I responded, “LOL, Steve, apparently Facebook agrees with you and denied my request for verification as a journalist. ‘On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 3:10 PM ... Hi Kevin,

‘Thanks for your request. We've reviewed this account and found that it's not eligible for verification at this time.

‘While the profile or Page may represent an authentic public figure, brand, business or organization, verification is also based on Facebook's standards for notability. We hope you continue to connect with and grow your audience on Facebook...’”

To which I responded to Facebook, a faceless existential entity often confused with the enigmatic prosecutorial entity in “The Trial.”

"Hi, Thanks for your response to my request for verification as a journalist. Thank you for your time.

“I sent in my request for verification in response to an article I found in Poynter, ‘Facebook is now offering journalists the same tools as celebrities,’ by Benjamin Mullin, Published Sep. 10, 2015 12:59 pm.


“The article left me with the impression that ‘Facebook's standards for notability,’ now included writing for a major newspaper. Of course, my critics may not feel that I am a journalist and that the Baltimore Sun is not a major newspaper, but I have in fact written for the newspaper for 12 years.

“I would like to qualify for a verified account, so that I and other "journalists may decide to use Facebook as another avenue for reporting and engagement, thereby solidifying the social network’s place as an arbiter of news."
Please advise. Thanks for your time.”

I never heard back from Facebook. No word if the flogger will appear at a later date… now that I have been rendered a first judgement…

Then as failure piled on to failure, I had tried to leave a comment on Poynter and failed… If I had been successful in posting my comment, this is, in part, is what I wanted to say…. I have since added to it, since I did not need to be concerned with brevity…

Days later, I went back to the Poynter article just to confirm as to whether or not I really did read the article or if it was a manifestation of my over-active imagination – and if I had read the article correctly.

I was amused to see a comment, “And this is a good thing?”

At that point, I did notice that my comment was finally published…

Anyway, my elaborated response reads:

Mr. Benjamin Mullin,

Thank you for this article. As a result of your article, I visited the page for Facebook.com/about/mentions and saw that in order to get the “Mentions” app, I needed to be verified on Facebook as a public figure. I immediately applied for a verified account with Facebook, along with a jpg of my government-issued identification card and a link to 12-years of articles in a major U.S. newspaper - - and was promptly denied.

The threshold of my amazement has been moved once again.

Have you applied to be verified as a journalist by Facebook?

Although I have navigated the internet and computers for decades; with Facebook I find myself occasionally adrift in a sea of ever-changing byzantine rules of which I simply lack the sophisticated and intercultural competence to navigate.

I was excited to read your article for many reasons. Time and space do not allow me to elaborate. However, I have worked at my journalism skills all my life. I take great pride in my profession. Yet, I sometimes bristle at whom Facebook has deemed to be worthy of its “standards for notability.”

Let’s just say that I was amazed to find the names Kim Kardashian and Bob Woodward in the same sentence in the context with a discussion about Facebook “allowing journalists and others with verified profiles to use Mentions, an app originally intended to empower celebrities to manage their social personas. After Mentions launched in 2014, news outlets dutifully chronicled the list of actors, musicians and professional athletes that flocked to the app, then dubbed a ‘VIP only’ service.”

The fact that, to date, Mr. Woodward is not considered “public figure” and Ms. Kardashian is – can be fuel for much discussion. Let’s just say that I was happy that the profession of journalism was getting some recognition.

To be certain, I’m not sure that I am looking at Facebook for indemnification for what I have done with my life. I am not always the most confident writer …. And of course, my critics may not feel that I am a journalist and the paper for which I write is not a major newspaper, but I have in fact written for the newspaper for 12 years…

I guess that I was simply excited about “the latest overture from Facebook to the world of media, and [that] it signals that the social media giant is looking to strengthen its position as a destination for news….” I am always looking for new outlets and keep hoping Facebook will grow to be something more than a vehicle for rants or what to have for dinner.

Sometimes the greatest hoax in life is the hope for safety

J.K.'s last words were, "Like a dog!" Just saying
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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Facebook rethinks the fate of your posts after you die | PCWorld

Facebook rethinks the fate of your posts after you die | PCWorld: "

By Zach Miners @zachminers Feb 21, 2014  

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2100400/facebook-rethinks-what-happens-to-your-posts-after-you-die.html#tk.nl_today

What will happen to your Facebook account when you die? Facebook has been giving it some thought, and it’s come up with what it hopes is a better way to deal with a sensitive issue.
When a Facebook user dies, the person’s mourners can ask Facebook to memorialize the account. Until now, if an account was memorialized its visibility was restricted to friends only.
“This meant that people could no longer see the account or any of its content unless they were Facebook friends with the person who passed away,” Facebook said in a post explaining the changes.
But starting Friday, memorialized accounts will be left as they are, so that posts are visible to whomever the user intended.
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Thursday, February 06, 2014

Facebook marks 10th birthday with personalized 'Look Back' videos

Facebook marks 10th birthday with personalized 'Look Back' videos
By Salvador Rodriguez February 4, 2014, 1:24 p.m.


Facebook turned 10 Tuesday, and it's letting users get in on its birthday celebration with a new feature that creates personalized videos highlighting users' top content over the years.

The feature is called "Look Back" and can be accessed when users go to facebook.com/lookback. That link takes users to a video created from their history on the social network.

The personal movie starts by recounting when users joined with one of their first profile pictures. It continues by showing users their "first moments," meaning some of their popular early posts, followed by their most liked posts, including pictures and status updates. From there, the video shows users' popular pictures they have shared over the years.


The videos are a bit cheesy, but it's an enjoyable bit of nostalgia that's only one minute long. Facebook also allows users to share their videos by clicking on a "Share Your Movie" button located at the top right corner of the page.




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    Sorry, Today Isn't Facebook's 10th 'Birthday'

    The Huffington Post | by Dino Grandoni



    Exactly 10 years ago today, Mark Zuckerberg opened thefacebook.com to every student at Harvard. Today, the $150 billion Internet company that the little campus website would become commemorates that moment as its birthday. But that doesn't mean you have to.

    Facebook pumped a lot of energy into the timing of its Feb. 4, 10th anniversary, including the release of a new iOS app and a rare interview with CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The PR effort paid off. "Paper," which converts News Feeds into an iPhone-sized magazine, was well received, while Zuckerberg came off as affable and was able to erase some of his bratty image in his talk with Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

    But like any website -- or, really, like any big, complicated project that people undertake -- Facebook was not "born" on a specific day.

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    Tuesday, August 11, 2009

    Facebook acquires social media giant "JamieKelly"

    Facebook acquires JamieKelly

    By Kevin Dayhoff, Kant BeTrue and New Bedford Herald news staff reports.

    Facebook acquires “JamieKelly,” a new age, cutting edge social media networking empire founded by a mysterious mid-west social media guide

    August 11, 2009, Cedar Rapids Iowa - - Earlier today, Facebook successfully acquired “JamieKelly,” a cutting edge social media networking site that is considered by to be a hot property among the much sought after 18 to 35 female demographic.

    Jamie Kelly, also known as “JK,” a service based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is named after the charismatic – some say, messianic founder, by the same name, who is quoted to have said, that his service was first launched when he was a sophomore at Dickenson College, a nationally recognized and highly selective liberal arts college located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

    When reached for further comment as the exciting news broke across the wire services, Kelly said, “I’m wearing a bow tie today was just a set up for my master plan. One day, I'm coming to work in a tux with tails, spats, and a walking stick.”

    As he shuffled away to his office, he noted, “I just mailed out a bundle of letters. Next thing, I'll be hunting a saber-tooth tiger.”

    Young women were reported to have gathered outside the world headquarters of JK at 500 3rd Avenue SE, Cedar Rapids, IA, chanting “Jamie Kelly” and holding sounds which read, “We love U,” and “JK Rocks.”

    Whatever.

    This the latest in a series of tech wars, and mergers and acquisitions after the recently announced Microsoft-Yahoo search deal.

    JamieKelly's 12-employee team will join Facebook family.

    The four founders of JamieKelly – Emily Johnson, Boris Hartl, Carrie Ann Knauer and Jamie Schmidt Wagman, will take senior positions in Facebook's Engineering and Product teams.

    Currently, the acquisition amount is undisclosed but JamieKelly looks happy with the acquisition and the joy was obvious in a recent interview with Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly, who have been good friends for many years.

    JamieKelly was looked upon as close competitor of Twitter, microblogging service for the same task - sharing information online.

    However, both services combined don't have enough users to match up Facebook's more than 250 million user base. Facebook couldn't buy Twitter, a service that has seen a tremendous growth since its inception, so, the next close substitute was JamieKelly.

    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “I've admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information.”

    As of now JamieKelly will work as it is and the founders are yet to lay out future plans for integration of both services.

    Facebook's JamieKelly acquisition is buzzed as directly challenging Google and leapfrogs Twitter.

    JamieKelly service went out cold until they had announced the second version of their API this month. So, now Facebook will make use of ex-Google's excellence in expanding Facebook platform to the next paradigm: Real-time search.

    If Google and Twitter are listening to this, they better sit together at least for mutual partnership on Twitter's search technology.

    Asked what’s next on the horizon for JamieKelly, Kelly, a former rap star from Pittsburgh, PA, said quixotically, “The music industry is proposing a new format for digital music…”

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    Monday, August 10, 2009

    How to lose your job on Facebook

    How to lose your job on Facebook

    August 10, 2009

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    Tuesday, June 02, 2009

    GIs Use Facebook, Twitter, YouTube Against Taliban

    AP: GIs Use Facebook, Twitter, YouTube Against Taliban

    Monday, June 01, 2009

    KABUL — The U.S. military in Afghanistan is launching a Facebook page, a YouTube site and feeds on Twitter as part of a new communications effort to reach readers who get their information on the Internet rather than in newspapers, officials said Monday.

    The effort, which officials described as a way to counter Taliban propaganda, represents a sea change in how the military can communicate its message.

    "There's an entire audience segment that seeks its news from alternative means outside traditional news sources, and we want to make sure we're engaging them as well," said Col. Greg Julian, the top U.S. spokesman in Afghanistan.

    Read the entire article here: AP: GIs Use Facebook, Twitter, YouTube Against Taliban

    20090601 GIs Use Facebook Twitter YouTube Against Taliban

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    • Click here for the Facebook page of U.S. Forces — Afghanistan.
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    Monday, April 27, 2009

    Could more changes be in store for Facebook?


    Report: Facebook to open up to developers by Steven Musil April 26, 2009

    Facebook plans to announce at a developer event Monday that it will open up user-contributed information to third-party developers, according to a
    report Sunday in The Wall Street Journal.

    […]

    The move seems a continuation of APIs (application programming interfaces) Facebook
    launched in February that let developers access content and methods for sharing in Facebook apps including Status, Notes, Links, and Video.

    Of course, all this hinges on persuading Facebook's 200 million users to share their personal data, a topic that ruffled some feathers in February. Facebook users threatened to revolt after the company
    announced changes to its terms of service

    […]

    But facing a rebellion from thousands of users and a
    possible federal complaint from the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the social-networking service returned to its previous terms.

    Read the entire piece here: Report: Facebook to open up to developers by Steven Musil April 26, 2009

    20090426 Report Facebook to open up to developers by Steven Musil

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    Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. Before joining CNET News in 2000, Steven spent 10 years at various Bay Area newspapers. E-mail Steven.

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    Saturday, February 07, 2009

    What Career Service Office Advisors Should be Telling Law Students About Social Media [Part 1/2]

    What Career Service Office Advisors Should be Telling Law Students About Social Media [Part 1/2]

    Feb 5th, 2009 | By Josh Camson | Category: Facebook, Lead Article, LinkedIn, Twitter

    If you're new here, and interested in using social media in the legal profession, you may want to subscribe to the RSS feed or follow me on Twitter @Rex7. Thank you for visiting SocialMediaLawStudent.com.

    A friend of mine attends a top 20 law school. At the beginning of his first year this past fall, his Career Services Office (CSO) told the entire 1L class that if they wanted to be employable, they should remove themselves from social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. That way, potential employers will not come across any damning information about the student.

    To me, and I’m guessing to anyone who reads this website, that advice sounds well-intentioned but bad. We are well into the 21st century. Law students and CSOs alike need to realize that the internet is a tremendous tool at every law student’s disposal. It is true that like any tool, if the operator is not careful, there can be dangerous accidents. However, law students should be utilizing the internet in their job search and networking efforts to show others that they are a more rounded individual, and a better applicant. Law students should no longer cower in fear, worried that a potential employer will see the drunk shenanigans they got up to last weekend. Instead, they should use the internet, and social networking in particular, as a tool to aid them in their efforts.

    This pair of posts will look at the three largest social networking sites: Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn. I will show you how to keep (or start!) using these services while protecting the information intended only for your friends from getting into the hands of a potential employer.


    Read more: What Career Service Office Advisors Should be Telling Law Students About Social Media [Part 1/2] | Social Media Law Student

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