Talking everything Social Media, Tech & Online Marketing. Covering pertinent social media news, and Craig’s weekly Random Resources!

Broadcast Summary:

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• News Desk – Chey talking about Instagram video, Twitter buying Spindle, Mailchimp’s makeover, a real Angry Birds Twitter account, Evernote introducing Gmail Clipper, Facebook’s new comment with photo and also Facebook’s Page Post Ad custom image capability;
  
• Craig’s Clever Technology – Craig talking about Cosync phone syncing and Google’s Wi-Fi balloons over New Zealand
  
• Craig’s Useless Social Media – Craig talking about Chey’s Twitter popularity;
  
• Random Resources – Chey talking about scams and cons that people should be aware of.
  

CRAIG:      And welcome to Social Media Pulse on this Friday afternoon. I hope you are having a great Friday afternoon. I hope you’ve knocked off, or are preparing to knock off or winding down, or preferably having knock-off drinks. That would be great. I’m looking forward to doing that. This is a show where we talk about everything social media, online marketing and technology. My name is Craig McCarthy and I’m joined here in the studio with Cheyanne Ainsworth. Hi, Chey. How are you going?

CRAIG as CHEY:       I’m going great, Craig. Thanks for asking. And you can check me out at Cheyanne.com.au.

CRAIG:      Wow. Chey. You sound a little bit different this week. Have you got a cold? Or something still?

CRAIG as CHEY:       No.

CRAIG:      Oh. Ok. Well let’s move on. We’ve got lots of stuff coming up in the show today. We’ve got some great songs. We are going to talk useless social media facts. That’s something to look forward to. We are going to talk clever technology, and no doubt we’ll have a great News Desk from Cheyanne. Is that right, Cheyanne?

CRAIG as CHEY:       Yes. Thanks for asking, Craig.

CRAIG:      Ok. Well. It’s all happening in here. Let’s take a quick break and we’ll come back and …

[THEME TUNE MUSIC and pause]

CRAIG:      Welcome back to Social Media at The Pulse.

CHEY:       And the real Cheyanne is here now.

CRAIG:      What was going on with you before, Chey? You didn’t sound quite right.

CHEY:       I don’t know.

CRAIG:      Yes.

CHEY:       Alien invasion I think. I know.

CRAIG:      Yes. Right.

CHEY:       Poltergeist took over.

CRAIG:      To be honest, I thought you sounded hotter.

CHEY:       Oh, did I? Really?

CRAIG:      Just between you and me.

CHEY:       Ok. Cool. I’ll have to listen back to it and see how hot I sounded.

CRAIG:      Oh, that’s interesting. How’s your week been?

CHEY:       Well it’s been pretty big, but I’m sitting here right now, and the lovely Croatian Show has just handed us chocolate, that is just beautiful. One of the benefits of coming in and doing radio is that – you know – the other shows bring all sorts of stuff in.

CRAIG:      Yes. They’re great, aren’t they? They take care of us. We like that.

CHEY:       Yes. Absolutely. But my week – yes. Been pretty huge. And yes, I’m heading off up to Albury to a 40^th birthday of my best friend’s husband (Rob), and he actually turned 40 yesterday but his birthday party on Saturday night. So it’s going to be a pretty big weekend.

CRAIG:      That’s great. Is that as in Albury Wodonga?

CHEY:       Albury and Wodonga are 2 different places. Yes. No, we are going to Albury.

CRAIG:      Right.

CHEY:       Not Wodonga.

CRAIG:      Right. We can’t tag them together?

CHEY:       No.

CRAIG:      Like the sister cities they are?

CHEY:       The people that live on either side would tell you it’s very different.

CRAIG:      They are not sisters at all.

CHEY:       No.

CRAIG:      No. Ok.

CHEY:       It’s like the Melbourne/Sydney rivalry.

CRAIG:      Ok.

CHEY:       Yes.

CRAIG:      Talking about rivalry …

CHEY:       Yes?

CRAIG:      I’m catching Alicia.

CHEY:       Oh, are you?

CRAIG:      On 4-Square, yes. Although she’s a machine.

CHEY:       Yes.

CRAIG:      She’s there at Cross-Fit 7 – 6am in the morning, and she’s there again at, like, midday.

CHEY:       Yes.

CRAIG:      Yes. So I’m not sure I’m going to ..

CHEY:       Yes. She is a crazy woman. And yes, I doubt you’ll catch her in any sort of way, shape or form.

CRAIG:      Yes.

CHEY:       But you can give it a go though.

CRAIG:      I’m giving it a crack. I’m trying to take her Mayorship of her. I’m going to have to get sneaky, I think. Down and dirty.

CHEY:       Are you? Well, you probably could, but she was – it was funny. We were sitting in at Three Little Figs Café and she checked in as well. And she showed me her phone and it said “You are here with Cheyanne who’s the mayorâ€. You are on her turf.

CRAIG:      That’s fair enough. Yes. You are. I don’t about that whole 4-Square thing.

CHEY:       Oh, but look. Actually, one thing this week that I was really happy about was in at Three Little Figs, they had a pumpkin and Chickpea Curry with Rotti, and it was so good. I think I’m probably going to go in and have some more.

CRAIG:      Really?

CHEY:       Yes. It was absolutely divine.

CRAIG:      Does sound pretty good.

CHEY:       Yes. Always looking for, you know, vegan or vegetarian options. And the veggie burgers are always there, where you can get steamed veggies and all of that sort of stuff. But when you see something on a menu that – you know – oh, wow! That was just awesome.

CRAIG:      Tell you what I’m into this week.

CHEY:       Bikram? And ?

CRAIG:      Apart from all that.

CHEY:       Yes? What?

CRAIG:      Hashtags!

CHEY:       Oh, gosh! It’s hit Facebook.

CRAIG:      On my board, I’ve resisted Hashtags. I’ve – you know, Twitter has never really taken over me, like it has taken over your life.

CHEY:       Yes.

CRAIG:      But …

CHEY:       It’s where it started.

CRAIG:      Yes. It’s where it started. They are on everything now, aren’t they? Instagram?

CHEY:       Well I just look at it and go why does Facebook want to be like Twitter? Why? Because it works.

CRAIG:      Yes. It does. Yes. It’s a bit of fun too.

CHEY:       It is.

CRAIG:      Yes. I’m getting into it. I like it.

CHEY:       There’s something else that Facebook introduced that I’ve got in – I think I put in the News Desk, and you’ll find that interesting. But –

CRAIG:      Oh. Ok.

CHEY:       Always changes.

CRAIG:      Ok. It does.

CHEY:       Sorry. I’m going to eat some chocolate whilst we talk.

CRAIG:      Yes. Go for your chocolate. Last week’s show – we had a good show last week. Just go to socialmediapulse.com, download or stream live Episode 29. We are up to 30 this week. 30 weeks. That’s pretty good. Did you go to Biz3228 Networking this week? Was that on Tuesday?

CHEY:       Sorry – I have a mouthful of chocolate.

CRAIG:      Yes. That’s all right.

CHEY:       No, I didn’t. I think it was a tax time.

CRAIG:      Yes. That’s right. I wonder how that went.

CHEY:       Yes.

CRAIG:      We’ll have to ask the girls. Well you see – do you see Alicia every day?

CHEY:       Yes.

CRAIG:      Yes. I see.

CHEY:       We sort of catch up here and there. Yes.

CRAIG:      Yes. You’ll have to ask her how that went.

CHEY:       But no. I’m tipping she’ll do a report on it, as in what was mentioned and the important stuff.

CRAIG:      Yes.

CHEY:       She’s a blogger, so yes.

CRAIG:      Absolutely. So I spoke a little bit in the Intro about what’s coming up in the show, and you really gave us nothing in that Intro section about what you want to talk about today. Have you anything to add?

CHEY:       Although I sounded hot, did I?

CRAIG:      You sounded smoking hot!

CHEY:       Ok.

CRAIG:      To me, you did anyway.

CHEY:       Ok.

CRAIG:      We are not going to the News Desk yet?

CHEY:       No.

CRAIG:      No.

CHEY:       What I’m going to talk about …

CRAIG:      Just – don’t worry about it. Yes. Just keep eating chocolate. Don’t worry about us! You know?

CHEY:       What I’m going to talk about today that I think is probably relevant at the moment is the scams that are happening on Facebook and things people should be looking out for.

CRAIG:      Yes. Great.

CHEY:       At least be alerted to. Yes.

CRAIG:      Great. Yes. So stick around. We’ve got lots coming up, and I’m here. Chey is here. And you may even get ‘Hot Chey’ come back later! Right? If you step out of the studio! You are listening to Social Media Pulse.

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CRAIG:      Welcome back to Social Media Pulse.

CHEY:       You are listening to Craig and Chey.

CRAIG:      You are! You sound fresh again.

CHEY:       Yes. I am. Compared to the start of the show.

CRAIG:      Give us the news, Chey. What’s going on in Social Media this week?

CHEY:       Ok. Straight of the News Desk, Instagram is going to be getting video on June 20^th, which is yesterday/today, but I think it will be actually tomorrow in American terms (or whatever it is). Basically, they have said – it came from Tech-crunch, and it was a source that says Facebook will unveil that Instagram – it’s popular photo-sharing App – will begin to let people take and share short videos. So it’s almost like Vine. Vine has taken off pretty well. And I think Facebook again have stolen that, and said ok we’ll use a form of it within Instagram. Now earlier reports about Instagram getting video – they did actually provide some sort of indication. So it’s not coming out of the blue, but there’s so many things that just happen and then there’s other things that you hear about for weeks on end before it actually happens. And so getting video on Instagram is a move that would make a lot of sense.

CRAIG:      Yes.

CHEY:       Specifically. It looks like – basically a direct response to rising popularity of video sharing services, namely Twitter’s Vine. There’s other ones, like Bedley, Cinogram and socialcam, sometimes get described as Instagram for Videos. Those sorts of Apps. So there’s that. Twitter has bought a company that is a social discovery start-up, and it’s called Spindle and it was done 2 days ago. And they were founded about 2 ½ years ago by a former Microsoft engineers, and users discovered that there was relevant content on social networks based on time and place. The start-up originally raised $2.3M in funding in 2012 and basically they’ve turned around and said “look, everytime we’ve experimented and looked beyond local discovery, we’ve been amazed by the breadth and quality of content shared on Twitterâ€. And that was in a Spindle blog post. By joining forces with Twitter, we can do so much more to help you find interesting, timely and useful information about what’s happening around you. I think that’s a valid reason for their service. Mailchimp gets a makeover. They now have a responsive design and so obviously it means when you are opening your emails and everything from Mailchimp in iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini, the responsive design – so it’s been optimized for tables. And you can drag and drop and replace and click and point, and all of those sorts of things a lot better. They’ve simplified profiles so that navigation and subscriber profiles – basically, your notifications are displayed in your navigation panel. And it means that there’s more relevant information in one place. You used to have – it was very clunky when they first started. But …

CRAIG:      Yes. It was. Good. Good though because it was free. I think lots of people are on Mailchimp now because it’s free to get in. I mean there’s other options. There’s Awebber, and Office Sort Out Pilot.

CHEY:       Yes.

CRAIG:      They all do the more you pay the more technical they become.

CHEY:       Office Auto Pilot has their own, but I know people use external – same with InfusionSoft. People prefer to use externals, because they concentrate specifically on the email marketing side of things.

CRAIG:      Yes. But Mailchimp – it’s a good option

CHEY:       Yes.

CRAIG:      If you haven’t got a massive database, I think.

CHEY:       Yes. Good to start with.

CRAIG:      Yes. Good to get started. Yes.

CHEY:       You don’t need to go out and buy a $300 a month programs. You can start free. Now this one was quite funny. I saw this and had a giggle. Hungry Birds have their own Twitter account. Basically, a gentleman – a Latvian bird lover – Vladimir. And he has set up a keyboard outside his house, and he feeds pork – pork fat – to the birds of a winter when it gets really cold. And so what he did was he got the pork and put it over each key and stuck it down really hard, so that when the birds came over they’d actually hit the keys and then he fed it in so that they actually Tweet! So they have their own Twitter account. They have about – I think it’s about 10K followers. And when you see the Tweets come through, it is! It’s birds. So he has set up a cam because he thought that people would think that, you know, it wasn’t real.

CRAIG:      It wasn’t real.

CHEY:       And that he was faking it. So he set up the cam, and there you go. So there are birds Tweeting on Twitter with their own account that have 10K followers. Yes.

CRAIG:      How about that!

CHEY:       Pretty funny. Evernote this week has updated with web clipper for Chrome to add Gmail clippings. So that just – I think they’ve got their Chrome Clipper down pat, and now they’re using their Gmail Clipper. So it means that you open any email on the web clipper and the email, along with any attached files will be saved into Evernote. The full email conversation becomes a formatted note with the subject line as the note title. And what’s useful then is that you can chose a notebook to place the email in and assign any relevant tags to it. So, yes. That’s for Premium, I think. I think I’m just seeing here – if you are a Premium User, Evernote also allows you to search any attached documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs. So there is that. Facebook now lets you comment with a photo. That was what I was referring to when we were first chatting earlier. And I saw it on my account this afternoon. I went oh, that’s pretty incredible.

CRAIG:      Oh.

CHEY:       I reckon it’s going to be fantastic.

CRAIG:      That’s pretty good, yes.

CHEY:       Fantastic for businesses when you certainly – you know – you get questions on what does this look like, or this product? Can I have a different – you know, have you got a photo of the different angle of it? Or in a different color or whatever it be. You can literally attach the photo to the update, so that you don’t need to send them links and that sort of thing. They get their stuff straightaway.

CRAIG:      That’s nice.

CHEY:       Yes. I thought that was pretty cool. Now something else with Facebook is that the page post link Ad on Facebook now includes customizable images. So they’ve basically updated their link image on page posts. You can now add your own image to a link, rather than the one generated by Facebook. So you know when you put up a link, and it says (you know) you’ve got 5 thumbnails to choose from, you can actually go in and change that to what you want it to be, instead of what Facebook has automatically made it. Does that make sense?

CRAIG:      Yes. That’s handy too.

CHEY:       I reckon that’s a winner. And there you go. That’s the News Desk.

CRAIG:      That’s fantastic. Thanks, Chey.

CHEY:       You’re welcome.

CRAIG:      There’s always so much going on. What’s going on in Facebook at the moment? They are really ramping up, aren’t they?

CHEY:       Oh, they are! They’ve got shareholders to answer to.

CRAIG:      Yes. Of course. All right. Stick around. We’ve got more coming up.

[THEME TUNE MUSIC and pause]

CHEY:       Welcome back to Social Media Pulse. You are here with Craig and Cheyanne.

CRAIG:      Yes, you are. We weren’t quite ready for you to be back yet.

CHEY:       No.

CRAIG:      Here we are.

CHEY:       There was silence. We thought we’d better come back on air.

CRAIG:      You better start talking. That’s song just phased out a little bit on me too. Here we go. All right. I’ve got some funny stuff I want to talk about today, Chey.

CHEY:       Ok!

CRAIG:      And listeners. See my Clever Technology section today, I want to talk about – there’s some new software that Cosync have been working on to allow multiple users of their phone to sync up through Bluetooth or Wi-Fi – sync up all their phones together.

CHEY:       Why would you want to do that?

CRAIG:      Let’s say that one thing they’ve looked at doing with it is that if you wanted to take a photo, but link up the flashes of a dozen or so phones at the one time, this software lets you do that.

CHEY:       And why would you need to do that?

CRAIG:      Well you might want to – if you flash all the flashes at the same time, they’ve worked out you will avoid washing out and get more even lighting on the subject you are photographing.

CHEY:       Right. Ok.

CRAIG:      So that’s a bit of a photography thing. And …

CHEY:       I’m tipping photographers would say just go and buy good lighting.

CRAIG:      Yes. That’s right. Or do it in daytime. But you can also – there’s some fantastic stuff you can do. They can – by making flashes go off at different times, you can have more dramatic lighting effects.

CHEY:       Oh.

CRAIG:      Another thing they’ve worked out you can do with this software, which is still under test at the moment, is they can have multiple cameras standing around someone throwing a ball, taking photos at different times in quick succession and they can recreate the bullet time effect as pioneered in The Matrix.

CHEY:       Oh, cool!

CRAIG:      Yes.

CHEY:       That would be …

CRAIG:      Some pretty funky photography stuff. So yes. Just a little something they are working on. Just a little bit interesting. Before I get onto my – I’ve got some useless social media information for us to talk about this afternoon. But I won’t get onto that yet. Another thing that did impress me. Did you see that Google are now floating balloons over New Zealand?

CHEY:       No.

CRAIG:      Yes. They’ve set up a whole heap of balloons to create a Wi-Fi Network over New Zealand.

CHEY:       They’d be big balloons.

CRAIG:      Bit balloons.

CHEY:       Not party balloons or anything.

CRAIG:      No, no, no. They’re big …

CHEY:       Hot air balloons.

CRAIG:      Big hot air balloons, yes. They’ve got 30 balloons floating over New Zealand at the moment to provide free internet access to disaster stricken, rural or poor areas.

CHEY:       Wow.

CRAIG:      Yes. It’s a bit funky. They are going to test their technology in Australia next. Possibly in Tasmania. It’s called Project Lune, and has been hatched by the engineers at the company’s – at Google Eggs Laboratory in Silicon Valley. And they say the thin plastic balloons hovering over New Zealand are barely visible. How about that! They are barely visible to earth-bound spectators, carrying antennas, radios, solar powered panels and navigation equipment that talk to specialized antennas on rooftops. So there you go.

CHEY:       That would definitely be a – you know – the old technology and new technology working together for a much better outcome for any sort of – if you think about flooding and natural disasters.

CRAIG:      Yes. That’s right.

CHEY:       I think about, you know, Japan and obviously New Zealand. And that sort of thing. I reckon that’s awesome.

CRAIG:      Yes. They say the aim was to provide much cheaper internet connections around the world. An example in many African nations the monthly internet costs were higher than monthly salaries.

CHEY:       You are kidding.

CRAIG:      Yes. Look at that.

CHEY:       That’s amazing.

CRAIG:      Yes. And they could provide service in remote regions. Perhaps areas that have lost communications.

CHEY:       Yes. They don’t NBN, do they?

CRAIG:      No, that’s right.

CHEY:       No.

CRAIG:      Ok. And I’m going to kick into my Useless Social Media Facts. Here we go for today. Did you know, Chey, that your Twitter mates are more popular than you?

CHEY:       Yes.

CRAIG:      You did?

CHEY:       Yes, I did.

CRAIG:      Don’t say that!

CHEY:       Yes.

CRAIG:      So you’re …

CHEY:       No, I didn’t, Craig. I didn’t.

CRAIG:      That’s better! You aren’t going there again. That’s right. So the strange friendship paradox arises because people with a larger number of friends skew the statistics. So your friends and your followers actually have more friends than you on average.

CHEY:       Yes.

CRAIG:      Are more popular than you on average. So there you go. A bit of useless social media facts for you.

CHEY:       That sounds good.

CRAIG:      Yes.

CHEY:       You just have to be on social media to find useless facts everywhere really!

CRAIG:      They are. It’s not too hard.

CHEY:       If I didn’t have my list capabilities, I’m sure I would be seeing all sorts of crappy information. Yes.

CRAIG:      You list capabilities?

CHEY:       Yes. Well within Twitter and within Facebook, I have lists so I don’t see information from, you know, people that talk about useless sort of information.

CRAIG:      Ok. Nice work. How do you do that?

CHEY:       Well, I reckon there’s an episode in that itself.

CRAIG:      All right. We’ll look forward to that. All right. You are listening to Chey and Craig.

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CHEY:       And welcome back to Social Media Pulse. You are listening to Craig and Cheyanne here on a Friday afternoon. What time is it?

CRAIG:      It’s about 3:45. Knock-off drinks time. Absolutely.

CHEY:       Yes.

CRAIG:      Pens down. Knock off work. You’ve got our permission.

CHEY:       Come and have a bevies, yes. If your boss wants to know, say Craig and Chey said we could.

CRAIG:      Said so – absolutely, yes.

CHEY:       Now I wanted to have a bit of a chat about Facebook and some of the scammy things that are going on, that people should be aware of. But before I do, last week we were discussing a new program that actually lets you change things within Facebook and that sort of stuff. So I know my guys will be listening to this at the moment, and I just want them to find out what one it was so that we can talk about it next week [It was Social Fixer] in comparing some of the things that I’ve written down here today. Basically, there’s a few ways that Facebook scammers will want to get your information. And sometimes it seems really harmless and you fall for it. It’s not uncommon. They want your email address. They want your log-in credentials, so they might ask for a username or password too, you know, of various accounts. It could be Facebook or it could be a web mail service or whatever it be. The other thing that they do is they have the ‘like or share’ a particular post or page that then virally spreads their scams. So it could be a link within an image. It could be a link that’s at the bottom of it that isn’t actually what you think it is. So there’s those sorts of things. There’s other things that they do that they try to install like a dodgy Facebook App, so that they have the ability to post on your timeline. So when you do have a Facebook App that is trustworthy, it will ask you ‘can we post on your timeline?]’ and sometimes the App won’t – you are not allowed to install the App until you hit that ‘yes, I allow you to post on my timeline’. Now there’s probably about 2 other ways that they do it, which is they trick you into completing an online survey and they actually get paid for it. You think you’re just helping somebody out, but they actually get paid for you filling in their survey.

CRAIG:      Right.

CHEY:       There’s another one, which is installing Malware into your computer or mobile device and I think there’s a lot of work going on at the moment in companies that are trying to stop that from a mobile perspective. We know that Wi-Fi isn’t generally safe. I know that I’ve been sitting at the airport and turned on my phone and seen what computers are literally around me, and been able to log into them. So it really is that simple when people are far too trusting. I’ve only done it to test it, because I’m just too much of a Geek Freak like that. I just want to see if it really does work. So they’re the sorts of things that people do. But the most common one going around at the moment is the Facebook Dislike button. Ok? Now this one has been doing the rounds for a while and I’ve seen it so many times. I’m like ‘are people still being scammed by this?’. It’s basically that they have a link on it to say that if you want a dislike button, you can click this. And then basically you clicking on it – there’s so many ways that they do it. They do it within the image. They do it on a link itself, or whatever it be. And you are going somewhere else. It doesn’t actually give you a dislike button. As far as we are aware, Facebook are not going to be using a dislike button regardless of how many people have liked the ‘we want a dislike button’. Ok? But I’ll never say never. They could introduce it at some point and then these spammers are going to be out of business. The other thing is the Like Farming and the Share Scams. So like farming is when a fake Facebook page is set up by a scammer, and its whole purpose is to game artificial likes. Right? So they do this. They can either use a large number of likes to distribute additional Facebook scams, or they sell the page on the black market for a profit. And there’s those sorts of things that have happened on Flipper. So people have built these fan pages with artificial likes and millions of shares and all these sorts of things, and then tried to sell it on Flipper. And they’ve been caught out. So there’s that sort of thing. Now like farming and share scams – they tend to go hand-in-hand, basically. So an example I have here is that the recent impaled boy. It was a post that you may have seen, and it would have popped up in your news feed. It’s a hoax slayer. Right? And it’s a really good summary of it. So it claims that CNN and Facebook will contribute to the child’s medical costs with every like. So $20 for a like. $50 for a comment. And $100 for a share. So basically, Facebook have come out and said ‘we have never donated funds to any cause based on the number of likes, comments or shares in a post’, so that is the scammy sort of thing that they are trying to do. Now the other thing – this is why I prefaced this section with I’d like my guys to go in and check the software that we mentioned last week, because Facebook changes color. Right? There’s a scam going around with that. And I know the one we spoke about last week is definitely not a scam. And they’re basically saying that there are Apps out there to say ‘would you like to change your Facebook color?’. You know, your blue to pink or whatever it be. And it’s actually not. When you do actually – if you think you can do this, and you go ‘oh, yes. I’d like to change to purple this week’, you literally have to log in and, again, give them access to your page.

CRAIG:      Right.

CHEY:       Of which then they can post on your behalf, and they can send out all yucky, spammy stuff. And it goes round and round in circles once you’ve logged into that. If you don’t go back in and unauthorized the App, then you’re stuffed. You know? Like it’s always – you know, whatever scam is going to be coming up, they are going to be using your account to be able to distribute it. Ok? Now the other scam that, again, I can’t believe is still around is that Facebook is charging for deactivating. Right? You will see the spam messages. They come up, and then friends that are not on Facebook very often or whatever it be get a bit angsty about it. And then decide to send it to all of their friends and share it. And it’s like NO! Facebook and – I think, what we have here is that Facebook will never charge you for general use of its services and it will not – and it’s not possible for your account to simply deactivate without you altering any settings. These kinds of scams are just attempts to get your log-in details or fulfill other/another of the scammers devious objections. Ok? Basically, people have said that they’ve had their deactivated, and that sort of thing. Well nobody can do that unless it’s you, and then you can reactivate it if you want anyway. So there’s just a heap of info there on scams.

CRAIG:      It’s interesting.

CHEY:       Yes.

CRAIG:      Yes. I mean you see it now and then, don’t you? You see someone will post something a bit oddball on their Twitter account or Facebook or something like that, and then they’ll come back on later and say sorry if you got sent this. I’m not sure how it happened. And yes – it’s out there.

CHEY:       It is. Like I think it was a good 12 months – it’s been a good 12 months since our, or my, Twitter account has been hacked. And yes, they did hack it and went in and they were sending all sorts of stuff out. And it was actually somebody – one of my followers – that sent me a message, saying ‘Chey, what’s going on? What’s with these messages? I love your info, but what’s going on?’. And that’s when one of the social media managers looked at it and went ‘holy cow’, like they hadn’t seen it overnight and went back in and deactivated all sorts of authorizations within the Twitter account. And then found out which one it was. So yes.

CRAIG:      It’s a fun world we’re living in, isn’t it?

CHEY:       Oh, it is. You know? Third world issues, you know?

CRAIG:      Yes. That’s right.

CHEY:       Yes. Sorry – First world issues.

CRAIG:      Yes.

CHEY:       Someone’s hacked my Twitter account. Yes.

CRAIG:      Yes.

CHEY:       No, it isn’t very nice when your Twitter account is hacked, or when your Facebook accounts are hacked or that sort of stuff. Keep your passwords private.

CRAIG:      Yes.

CHEY:       Use last past use, some sort of online password protection.

CRAIG:      Yes. Yes. Absolutely. Ok. You are listening to Chey and Craig on Social Media Pulse.

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CRAIG:      And that’s just about us for another week, Chey? What have you got planned for the weekend?

CHEY:       Up in Albury.

CRAIG:      Oh, of course, yes.

CHEY:       Celebrating Rob’s 40^th.

CRAIG:      Fantastic.

CHEY:       And yes, I’ll make up for bevvies I’m not having tonight.

CRAIG:      I’m going surfing tomorrow.

CHEY:       Cool.

CRAIG:      Yes. I’ve been talking about doing it for a while, and you know – finally gone to do it.

CHEY:       Going to go and find some waves?

CRAIG:      It’s going to be cold. I’ve got a nice wetsuit. So …

CHEY:       That’s ok. You just need to wee in it and your right.

CRAIG:      That’s right. Thanks for that image as we are closing the show. Have a good week.

CHEY:       Well you too, Craig. See you next week.

CRAIG:      See you next week.

CHEY:       Bye.

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