New_facebook_profile If you don’t see your new profile yet on Facebook, just head here and follow the three easy steps. Dave Knox notes this is more for the advertiser and Facebook – not the user.

Take Facebook’s tour and you’ll see that Knox is right. I’ll also note, while LinkedIn has been drafting off Facebook for awhile, it’s interesting to see Facebook finally pay homage to LinkedIn with the way they’re serving up some of the redesign. The two aren’t direct competitors IMHO, for now, but they continue to push each other for our benefit.

Tumblr will be back shortlyTumblr will be back shortly
The angst on Twitter today is focused on Tumblr since it is down and now its users cannot post their angst to the very popular publishing platform. One of the reasons Tumblr is so popular is it’s free and it’s easy to use (that’s what she said). A well-intended phrase like “We’ll be back shortly” is biting them in the butt as shortly is broadly defined.

Self-Entitled Users Should Become Personally Accountable
Platforms like Tumblr, Facebook and  Twitter are free to use. This means they’re wildly popular. Some are better poised to handle the growth than others. All of the platforms are responding to growth — sometimes this means failing.

Twitter served up more fail whales than a Green Peace outing for awhile there. Everyone bitched and moaned — the same people that are still using Twitter today. This too shall pass as Tumblr fixes what’s broken. The best platforms will survive regardless of how much we moan and gnash our keyboards.

You Get What You Pay For
In my last post I noted: “Terms of service change. Privacy settings change. Users need to take personal accountability for their privacy. How many of us do?”

We need to keep it in mind when things like this happen too. If we’ve got all of our marbles tied up in free services, we need to be prepared to suffer the consequences when the Internet takes its masher and scatters your marbles all over the web. They’re playing for keepsies and it’s up to the individual to manage their own presence whether its privacy or free services.

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