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Mahalo is a social networking site that I haven’t really messed with outside of signing up for it. I’ve heard some good things about it, and I know that a few people on Twitter use it, but that’s about all I know.

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How many friends can I add daily on Facebook?
What is the maximum number for friends I can have?
These are the two most common search terms which bring people to my blog.
The answer to the [...]

I learned a hard lesson yesterday.
Don’t have a ticklefest with a little one when you’re finishing up a blog post, especially one that’s taken a couple days to write. EVEN if you have saved it. J somehow managed to kick my mouse, deleting both the post AND the saved copy in one swell foop.
Soooo, instead, [...]

Regardless of how safe you think Facebook or any other social site is, remember that all of these companies are going to be trying to make money in some way. So, with companies claiming full use of your information, what can you do to protect yourself?

So, I’ll start off by writing about the sites that I know and use. If there are ones that you’d like to see a guide to, post or send me the link and I’ll try to include it. If you know someone who would be a great author for a guide to a site, let me know.

I have a confession to make. I’m an introvert.
Now some of you are probably going, “Nah, really?!? We’d never have guessed. :P”
If you’ve never taken the Myers-Briggs or other online personality test, I thoroughly recommend it. The results (if it’s a good test) are a fascinating look into your own behaviors.
I know before [...]

Ahoy! From which port do ye hail?
An online multi-player game that I enjoy playing shows this whenever anyone asks the standard asl (age, sex, location) question. The game, Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, is one of the social networks I am involved in online.

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Sometimes giving a page a thumb up seems to make a big difference. The page you discover and thumb up suddenly makes it to the Buzz and it seems like everyone is looking at it now. Another page that seems just as likely to be popular doesn’t do anything after you thumb it up. What’s going on?

Its fun posting something on SU and having it make the Buzz, StumbleUpon’s listing of the hottest posts in the most popular topics.

This was the first time I’d ever had a post from here get buzzed, and watching the buzz effect behind the scenes (through a stat reader) is nothing short of addicting.

Thanks to a friend who noticed I was getting too caught up in being at the top of the list, and called me on it, I seriously cut back on my SU activity for a while, and when I came back to StumbleUpon, I noticed I was having fun with it again, instead of stressing about always finding good articles to post.

So, here are my top 5 reasons you might not want to push to be Top Stumbler: