I’ve written a few posts about Facebook etiquette, mostly about application ettiquette, and I think there’s a point I missed that I wanted to touch on. I know I come down pretty hard on people whose news feed is made up almost entirely of apps, quizzes and games, but the reality is that for some people, [...]
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I hated online dating when I was single. I must have changed my profile on JDate five times to try and strike a tone that I thought was indicative of my personality and I still never got close. I think most people struggle to “sell themselves” in the online setting because the end result comes from [...]
OK, so yesterday I complained about a problem I have with spammy, hard-sell behavior on Facebook. I wound up receiving a few comments about people who also can’t stand Farmville, Yoville, MafiaWars, SuperPokes, Vampires, Zombies, Vampires v. Zombies, Mafia Zombies, SuperVampirePokers who live on Farms and so on. Since I’ve already discussed what the players of these [...]
…Don’t wipe your hands on my drapes.
That’s not what they’re for, you know? I use ‘em to keep the windows covered, or at the very least as decoration. If you’re like me, your home is your place, where you have your own rules. When you visit someone else’s house, you don’t conduct yourself the same [...]
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Have a great weekend everyone – go out on a date, hang out with friends, throw a party, do whatever you want. No judgement here, but before you run off to Facebook to upload the embarrassing pics you snapped last night, don’t think for one second that nobody is going to look at them. People [...]
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One of the things I love about Facebook is that it’s kind of all things to all people. Some people use it mostly for the games, and that’s fine with me. Some use it to reach out to customers and create an online community around their product/service. I’m cool with that too. I use it [...]
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My journey linking twitter to Facebook.
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Learn Social Media and get Perfect Abs in 97 Minutes!
I just got an email with the subject line “How to get Social Networking and SEO Savvy in 90 Minutes”.
The email was promoting, in a very old school, spammy kind of way, a webinar that promised that I would “..learn the ins and outs of social [...]
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Facebook Manners And You
Enjoy this cautionary tale of the computing machine and the “electronic friendship generator”, Facebook.
Image by HubSpot via Flickr
As the components of social media come more into the main stream of daily living, there is a lot being written about its impact on marketing and advertising and how it is being utilized to facilitate networking with people that have been in your life at its various stages. Apocryphal stories [...]
