STUDY: Photos Make Up Most Facebook Page Posts, But Videos Draw Huge Engagement
While photos remain the most common type of post for Facebook pages, and they continue to generate strong engagement, videos result in significantly higher engagement, yet they accounted for just 3 percent of pages’ posts in a recent study by social analytics firm Quintly, compared with 54 percent for photos.
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STUDY: One Out Of Six Primetime TV Viewers Are Also Using Facebook, Other Social Networks
The television is definitely not the only screen capturing viewers’ attention, as a new study by the Council for Research Excellence found that one out of six primetime TV watchers are also using social media, and about one-half of their social media activity is related to the programming they are watching.
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Philadelphia To Facebook: We Are Not Camden
The Delaware River separates Philadelphia from Camden, N.J., but the river has apparently run dry when it comes to location on Facebook, as WHYY/Newsworks reported that Philadelphia users of the social network are frustrated about their posts being tagged with “in Camden” or “near Camden.”
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STUDY: Age Has Direct Correlation With Facebook Usage Patterns
At various points over the past year, the Internet has been aflutter with the idea that Facebook is having trouble attracting younger users to its platform. However, recent statistics from PrivacyGuard, an identity-theft-protection company, show that these claims may be overstated. In fact, there appears to be a direct correlation between a person’s age and the likeliness that they’re on Facebook.
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Sheryl Sandberg: No 2008 Agreement With Google To Limit Recruiting Of Its Employees
When Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg left Google to join the social network in 2008, all Google employees were fair game in terms of recruitment, Sandberg said in a court filing for a lawsuit in which neither she nor Facebook are named, as reported by Bloomberg.
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Facebook Names Head Of Marketing Communications For Central And Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa
Mark Hamilton, who had been a client managing director, Middle East and north Africa, for Starcom MediaVest Group, joined Facebook as head of marketing communications for the central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (CEEMEA) regions, The Drum reported.
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Facebook Offers More Details On New Pages Layout
With the new layout for Facebook pages on desktop in the process of being rolled out, the social network sought to answer the most common questions from page administrators with a post on the Facebook for Business page.
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REPORT: Facebook Working On Mobile Analytics
Facebook’s transformation into a mobile company will continue with another huge step, as VentureBeat reported that the social network is working hard toward being able to provide its own mobile analytics platform.
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Mark Zuckerberg Not Pacified By White House Meeting On Government Surveillance
Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and five other technology executives met with President Barack Obama at the White House last Friday to discuss the National Security Agency and government surveillance, but the meeting apparently did not adequately address Zuckerberg’s concerns, based on a statement released by the social network.
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Facebook Weekly Highlights Brings You March Madness
Facebook Weekly Highlights features photos and videos posted to the social network by celebrities and athletes. This week’s edition featured this photo of the University of Dayton Flyers celebrating an upset victory in the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship tournament.
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Social Media Jobs: McMurry/TMG, MRM//McCann, Agency 720
This week, McMurry/TMG is hiring an interactive art director, while MRM//McCann needs a community manager. Agency 720 is seeking an interactive social media designer, and Wise Bread is on the hunt for a financial writer. Get the scoop on these openings below, and find additional social media jobs on Mediabistro.
- Interactive Art Director McMurry/TMG (Phoenix, AZ)
- Community Manager MRM//McCann (New York, NY)
- Interactive Social Media Designer Agency 720 (Detroit, MI)
- Financial Writer Wise Bread (Los Angeles, CA)
- Social Media Account Manager for Beauty PR Agency Creative Media Marketing (New York, NY)
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Ex-Facebook Software Engineer Josh Wiseman Surfaces At Education Startup Remind101
Former Facebook Software Engineer Josh Wiseman, who left the company last May to accept an engineer-in-residence position with The Social + Capital Partnership, announced in a Facebook post that he has joined startup Remind101, a mobile messaging service for teachers.
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DataPoint: Will FunPlus’ Family Farm Find FarmVille-Size Success?
This week brought news that social gaming company DianDian Interactive, otherwise known as FunPlus, raised $74 million in a series-B round. It’s the largest funding round for a social gaming company in nearly a decade.
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SPRING BREAK: Which Beach Destinations Have The Most Facebook Check-Ins?
Wouldn’t you rather be on the beach for spring break right now? Facebook examined its check-in data during the month of March, comparing it with February, and compiled lists of the 10 most popular beach destinations for college spring breakers (users aged 18 through 24) and family-friendly beach destinations (25 and older).
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Mark Zuckerberg Lives Vicarious-ly With Investment In AI Company
Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg participated in a $40 million funding round in Vicarious, which describes itself as “a secretive artificial-intelligence company,” according to The Wall Street Journal’s Digits blog.
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Privacy Groups Respond To WhatsApp Founder/CEO Jan Koum’s Blog Post With Updated FTC Filing
The Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy — which filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission earlier this month against Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of cross-platform messaging company WhatsApp, alleging that the privacy of current WhatsApp users will be affected by Facebook’s use of their information — filed an update with the FTC Friday, in response to a blog post by WhatsApp Co-Founder and CEO Jan Koum earlier this week.
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Facebook Opens Office In Jakarta, Indonesia
There are some 65 million monthly active users in Indonesia, placing it at No. 4 on Facebook’s list of countries ranked by MAUs, so it comes as little surprise that the social network opened its newest branch office in the country’s capital city of Jakarta.
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Sheryl Sandberg Sells Another 283K+ Shares
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg continues to unload shares in the company, reporting the sale of 283,334 more in a Form 4 filing Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Mark Zuckerberg Slips From No. 1 To No. 9 On Glassdoor’s Highest-Rated CEOs List For 2014
Is Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg losing some of his appeal? After receiving the No. 1 ranking on the 2013 list of highest-rated CEOs by social jobs and career community Glassdoor, Zuckerberg slipped to No. 9 overall and No. 4 among tech company leaders in the 2014 edition, which was released Friday.
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Facebook Firmly Denies That It Was ‘Fully Aware’ Of NSA Surveillance
Facebook emphatically denied allegations in a story in The Guardian asserting that the social network and other Internet companies “were fully aware” of the National Security Agency’s data collection as part of its Prism initiative.
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