Facebook and LinkedIn - if you don't do it, you're a dinosaur

[nostatic]

Originally Posted by imcarthur

Hover over it & a Hide button appears on the right. Click it & make your choice.

Ian

this is a UI feature that needs to be more broadly implemented in life

[imcarthur]

Originally Posted by nostatic

this is a UI feature that needs to be more broadly implemented in life

Yes, wouldn't it be loverly.

Ian

[trekkor]

I like FB for keeping up with my friends and family.

I also like to create photo galleries.


KT

[Joeaksa]

Funny thing, just at the ATT phone store. They told me something new. A certain airline, not gonna say who, is sending out job inquiries to people via email.

If you have a BB or Iphone you usually reply faster than if you are not at home sitting on the computer. Jobs are awarded based on who replies fastest...

Interesting way to get tech savy people onboard.

[MattKellett]

I just joined Facebook and love that I can see what my family and friends are up to. I haven't posted much on it yet, but hopefully this will be a way my family can see what I'm up to, now that I moved here to the US.

I also have a few "follow us on Facebook pages", which is handy for getting updates on some of the companies and things I am interested in.

What's not to like about it?

[john70t]

Q): The website asked me "What are you doing right now?"
A): "Picking dewberrys while responding to internet questions".
Mabye I'm getting old, but why feed the system?

[john70t]

On another website I "belong" to I asked a much-needed and serious question.
The topic never posted.


Familiarity breeds comtempt.

[imcarthur]

But you naysayers just don’t get it. There is a growing audience. And it is not you . . . yet. Was anybody around when the internets were launched? We didn't NEED it either.

I was at the broadcasters' show in Vegas & I was standing in a major Starbucks line. 20+ minutes for java. I watched the people in line. 90% were staring at their phone. Even people that were with people were staring at their phones & sometimes even each other’s phone. FB, Twitter et al are filling a void giving that 90% something besides email as content. Do they NEED it? Of course not.

Even though your intent on FB etc might start as strictly social, you will keep bumping into commercial content. And that is why we & others like us are there & investing the time.

Ian

[A930Rocket]

I just signed up at Facebook and took a look around. Didn't see anybody from I wanted to get in touch with, so I deleted the account.

Besides, if my 14 and 16 YO's are into it, I don't need it...

[austin552]

My wife took over my page and set up a cafe and farm to help support hers. Now all my people are sending me sht. Oh well business is booming at the cafe and the farm is flourishing. Anyone have a brick for my stable?

[john70t]

Protect your children from registering themselves.

[lisa_spyder]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

I just signed up at Facebook and took a look around. Didn't see anybody from I wanted to get in touch with, so I deleted the account.

Besides, if my 14 and 16 YO's are into it, I don't need it...

Disagree...

Sorry; if your kids are into it that is exactly why you need to be too.

One of the earlier posts asked how to monitor your kids on facebook...that's easy. A stipulation of their facebook account must be that YOU go in and set up the privacy settings etc and YOU are a facebook friend....and YOU should have their log in details as well.

These are the rules I set for Charlotte...I also check what photos are being loaded etc; who is tagging what and what's generally going on her 'wall'. Is this snooping or an invasion of privacy? Not in my book...and not in hers either. In fact a lot of her friends (the kids) send me friend requests too. And some of the other Mums are on Charlotte's friends list. The kids don't seem to mind at all that we're 'involved'.

If this changes as time goes on...I have a solution. As we pay the bills for internet, mobile phones etc...we'll simply switch it off if the rules get broken. Charlotte's pc will just get cut off the net and I'll bar internet service on her mobile. Am I a dinosaur of a parent at times?...hell yes. Particularly when it comes to safety issues such as naiive internet usage. Will I have a battle about this with her? Of course....BTDT...with the older one....and still a younger one to come after her too...but certain rules will always be steadfast in this household no matter what.

Oh and another thing...none of this 'friends of friends' BS....all her settings are for friends only and the rule is if she doesn't actually know someone, she doesn't 'befriend' them. Only friends can see her wall and SHE has to request new friends; some idiot who is a friend of a facebook friend cannot see her wall or send her a friend request. She also knows she doesn't HAVE to accept every friend request. She has some sitting there now from kids she knows whom she doesn't particularly like and they don't really like her...she doesn't need to accept them...has discovered the ignore button already.

[Gogar]

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

...use it as a tool...

So...it helps to be a tool? Well then, I'm gonna continue to not use it...as a Luddite!

Originally Posted by srandallf

i use both. neither are useful. both are stupid

You tool!

Originally Posted by pwd72s

...don't twitter

Unless, of course, you're a twit.

Early on in the history of this goofy phenomenon I asked someone if they twitter. The guy gave me a dirty look and said sharply, "Nooo! I "tweet". I laughed and said, "Sooo, you're a tweeter! Hey! I'm a woofer!" He gave me another dirty look. What a twit.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally Posted by john70t

Protect your children from registering themselves.

+1,000

I see absolutely NO good coming out of kids being on these sorts of sites.

They can go on them when they're 18 if they're so inclined.

[Rick Lee]

I like FB for personal use only, but will not use it professionally. A lot of my co-workers use it to push our products and I find it to be a real turn off, so I remove them from my page view if they're friends of mine. Another former co-worker now sells Audis for a dealership in LA and his every post is about this or that new incentive or sale. I couldn't care less, so I removed him from my view too.

FB and Twitter are the new holy grails of PR though. There are few companies out there with dedicated PR or communications staffs who don't have FB and Twitter links on their websites. I went to an event where the featured speaker, a very well-known guy in the PR world, was telling us about being stuck on a Delta flight that wasn't taking off due to mechanical issues and also wasn't letting anyone off the plane. This guy posted about it via his Blackberry on Twitter, where he has many thousands of followers, and within minutes Southwest Airlines offered to take everyone on the plane to wherever they were supposed to go. That's one of those cases where Delta really dropped the ball by not having someone on staff watching Twitter as a PR crisis unfolded. With all this realtime updating, companies really need to be on the ball.

[A930Rocket]

They show us what's on there and the settings are on private, so we have a pretty good idea of what's going on. Most pictures taken and posted are when we are around to observe. They each have a close group of friends (they won't even befriend some of their cousins ).

The older one is a straght A student all her life, honor role, Beta Club, National Honor Society, year round/high school Swim Team, French Club, etc.

The younger one is a straight A student and year round/high school Swim Team (individual national ranked and boys high school state swim champs last year).

Having said that, we'll plug the plug on them in a heart beat for anything we deem inappropriate...

Originally Posted by lisa_spyder

Disagree...

Sorry; if your kids are into it that is exactly why you need to be too.

One of the earlier posts asked how to monitor your kids on facebook...that's easy. A stipulation of their facebook account must be that YOU go in and set up the privacy settings etc and YOU are a facebook friend....and YOU should have their log in details as well.

These are the rules I set for Charlotte...I also check what photos are being loaded etc; who is tagging what and what's generally going on her 'wall'. Is this snooping or an invasion of privacy? Not in my book...and not in hers either. In fact a lot of her friends (the kids) send me friend requests too. And some of the other Mums are on Charlotte's friends list. The kids don't seem to mind at all that we're 'involved'.

If this changes as time goes on...I have a solution. As we pay the bills for internet, mobile phones etc...we'll simply switch it off if the rules get broken. Charlotte's pc will just get cut off the net and I'll bar internet service on her mobile. Am I a dinosaur of a parent at times?...hell yes. Particularly when it comes to safety issues such as naiive internet usage. Will I have a battle about this with her? Of course....BTDT...with the older one....and still a younger one to come after her too...but certain rules will always be steadfast in this household no matter what.

Oh and another thing...none of this 'friends of friends' BS....all her settings are for friends only and the rule is if she doesn't actually know someone, she doesn't 'befriend' them. Only friends can see her wall and SHE has to request new friends; some idiot who is a friend of a facebook friend cannot see her wall or send her a friend request. She also knows she doesn't HAVE to accept every friend request. She has some sitting there now from kids she knows whom she doesn't particularly like and they don't really like her...she doesn't need to accept them...has discovered the ignore button already.

[HunterVonWurst]

There's a website I read about recently (can't recall the name) that scours Facebook and lets the world know where you live and when you will be (or were) out of town/travelling based on your posts. Think someone posted it here recently.

My stupid sister lists her full date-of-birth, mother's (maiden) name, employer and a ton of other identifying information. She can't figure out how someone got into her bank account and cleaned it out...

[Pazuzu]

If you approach Facebook, Twitter, etc fresh as a tool for business, then they are VERY effective for the small business owner. It's absolutely important to keep any business stuff completely separate from any personal stuff. My better half uses both (and text messages) for her business, and it's been great. Lots of connection from other local businesses, lots of referrals going back and forth, lots of people who are getting more and more into supporting local companies. She keeps them all updated as well as her website, and each works off of the others. Newsletters, hours of operation, all sorts of stuff can quickly be sent out to all of your clients. She puts coupons on Twitter ("for the next 4 hours half price" kinda stuff), and it gets passed back and forth by other business owners, who often toss in their own coupons. You can't do that kind of stuff without the new social media.

Those that outright refuse to use them are hurting themselves. Might as well take down any website and e-mail for your company.

[A930Rocket]

Bringing this one back from the dead...

In an effort to find people that I have worked with in the past for posssible career opportunities, I started a LinkedIn account. Nothing has come of it yet, but I have connected with people that I haven't seen or heard from in years.

It has tools such as job search functions, question and answer sections, etc. that might seem helpful and doesn't appear to be a social site like FB, although I wonder how some members have so many connections.

Anybody else on it?