Ever since Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the coverage I’ve read has been far more excited about the forthcoming alert upgrades in iOS, Apple’s mobile operating system, than the iCloud launch or hundreds of other updates. As more prominent alerts lead to even faster adoption of various mobile services and technologies, mobile social media should be disproportionately affected.

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I was trying to join a Facebook fan page for my favorite TV show, Game of Thrones, and was disturbed to see a warning message that I needed to “switch to a regular connection” that wasn’t secure so I could proceed. Are they trying to hack my account? Should I proceed on Facebook?

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