Don't judge me. I joined Facebook. Right now, many of you that know me personally are laughing out loud, and those who know me just through the blog, well, you're probably laughing out loud, too.
As you know, I'm big on looking for new ways to market and for the longest time I was convinced that Facebook was just a tool to show people how many friends you can gather online. But lately, it seems everything I read about online marketing mentions Facebook. For awhile, I figured I could ignore it, and I did. But it now seems that I just might be missing the boat, because I've got a number of colleagues who are successfully using it for business, many of whom emailed me to comment on their disagreement with some of the things I said in a recent post (alright, it was a soapbox rant) against all things social networking.
Apparently, it takes some discipline to keep it that way, to avoid getting sucked in to spending hours on the site, time that would be better spent working. So I'm going to give it a try and see if it really does help my business. I've already spent a few hours on it today, just making sure I have all the settings right, and making sure that everybody and their dog can't post to my 'wall' whatever the heck that is.
While I'm still not convinced that I'm wrong about Facebook, I'm willing to give it a shot. I used to say the same thing about blogs and I was wrong about that. In fact the title of my first blog entry at the beginning of last year was "I'll Blog...but I still won't Facebook."
So I'm on Facebook, dammit, but please don't make me Twitter. I really don't want to Twitter.
You're going to make me Twitter, aren't you?
0 comments:
Post a Comment