Take this advice about posting in your personal life. While these social tools can be powerful forces in networking, they can also blow up in your face when not handled with care.

From time to time there are those whose sufferings can be taken no longer. For these people they resort to a new form of digital revolution, the “Social Network Call to Arms”. The past few months I’ve witnessed countless instances of people using their network connections to accomplish many tasks.

Yesterday (around noon) I posted an article called Don’t Block Firefox! I wrote it after reading about an annoying site called WhyFirefoxIsBlocked.com on Reddit (and later on Digg). I submitted it to StumbleUpon, and posted comments on Digg and Reddit (including a link to my post). Within two hours, it was the most popular post on Webmaster-Source. I looked at the “Popularity: 100%” in disbelief

I’ve been using Digg for a long time now. I’ve had plenty of complaints about it, but mostly small annoying things that I would change. Today Digg announced that they have been diverting traffic by using shortened URL’s that in fact are landing pages of Digg.com. As of lately using Digg.com has become more and more annoying and I am considering spending my time somewhere else.

If you’ve ever tried using twitter to build traffic for you blog or website, then you know that there are tons of people out there who have the policy “If you follow me I’ll follow you back”, but what good does this really do for you.