Instagram Now Has More Than 100 Million Active Users Per Month

This is huge news considering that in early 2012, there were 15 million users, in April it was 5 million users and 50 million more have been added in less than a year.

I know a jumber of people jumped ship for EyeEm and other services following the privacy scare. But I think people will continue to join because their friends and their community use instagram. The same reason facebook continues to be huge despite changing regularly; people want to be where their community is.

How to Create Links for Increased Engagement

Although I disagree with linking an entire sentence, he does make some great points about how to make sure you’re not misleading folks with links.

I do agree with a majority of his analysis of when one should link to a new tab.

I have had clients who wanted all links bolded and italicized —both, and then had 25-40 links in each blog post or page. This worked well for the client, but not their visitors, and until I worked with this client to simplify the content and eliminate overlinking, their pageviews and visits were painfully low. As long as you’re keeping the visitor first in your mind, you’ll make the right choices regarding links.

3 perfectly easy ways to wreck your marriage with social media

I’m pretty sure the title is written the way it is so folks will read the article. However, it should be “The 3 Things to Avoid when Married and Using Social Media” (I also changed the titles below)

#1. Beware of adding 3rd parties
This would be true of any relationship. Try and add a competing entity or something that comes between you and your spouse or significant other, and sparks will fly… or actually fizzle.

#2. Avoid looking for someone who “gets you”
Again, the world is full of people who might fill a small void that your significant other doesn’t. Finding someone who scratches that itch for you (and ultimately crossing the guardrail into oncoming traffic) could spell your ruin if you don’t avoid looking to connect with someone else over “music, art, games, etc.”

#3. Be YOURSELF online.
I say this over and over again because it’s easy to split yourself down the middle and in an age of people’s ability to be multiple things to multiple people over multiple media, it happens easier than ever. How many of us have someone else’s picture in our avatar? Stay yourself, here, there and everywhere and it will be much easier to look your spouse and everyone else in the face (or avatar) and relax knowing they know you are really you.

That’s it. You can read the article for John’s funny wit, but the “tips” are obviously reversed to be the tips that RUIN your marriage not avoid ruining it.