Facebook is moving towards being the center of the social web by allowing companies to advertise even more with unique apps and features on their websites. People will be able to log in to facebook through their websites and when using options on the website millions can learn what song their friends were just listening to, what clothes they like online, what people are buying, the options are endless. Many marketeres look forward to this new opportunity to advertisement more specifically and to target groups. Their ads will be specially modified towards the users profile information and what they "like" online. However, many users are concerned with the amount of privacy they'll be able to have. Some don't wish to have everything they do online broadcast to the world wide web. Facebook anticipated this fear and made a 5 minute video teaching users how to turn off and opt out of this new sharing method and preserve their privacy.

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Coca-Cola has decided to release a sneak peak of their Super Bowl Ad on Facebook. All you have to do is become a fan of their page on Facebook and use the "live positively" application to send a free virtual Coke bottle to your friends on Facebook. For every person who does this Coca-cola will donate $1 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America up to $250,000. By sending this free gift you also get a 20 second sneak peak of their upcoming Super Bowl Ad. All and All this seems like a win win to me. Click here to read more.

My neighbors, the Haitians, were victims of the 7.0 earthquake that occurred on January 12th. The country is devastated. People that have seen the tragedy in television and online and are willing to help. The American Red Cross has turned to social media, such as Twitter and Facebook , in order to make appeals for money disaster.

David Meltzer, from the American Red Cross, says that social media wasn’t nearly as important as a year and a half ago when a massive earthquake struck China. Hundreds of thousand of dollars have been mobilized and collected in only 18 hours, from social media alone.

GlobalGiving tweeted 12 thousand followers as soon as the earthquake happened. As soon as they started tweeting about it in just 1 day several hundred people had re-tweeted them.

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