For promotions probably not, it's not a spam disaster like myspace

Ya, if you're planning on going there to promote, I don't recommend it. It's strictly to keep in touch with friends, and there aren't that many wacko fake profiles & people on there. I'm on there cuz most of my Canadian friends are on there.

Actually if you are going to spend the time to set up events and message your guests. It can be a production tool for promotions.

Add me: Mike Rabban

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i was convinced to start a facebook a while back. other than keeping in touch with a tiny percentage of friends who just refuse to use myspace, i never even use it. i hate the format of the site and how everything on there is geared towards teenagers looking for ways to waste time, ie: pokes, gifts, drinks, invites, requests, quizzes, newsfeeds on how fast i'm breathing at the moment, etc. myspace seems to be the king of social networks and self promotion. everything on there has a purpose is and is to the point and from a marketing/promotional standpoint, your profile is an open palette, not a rigid cookie-cutter template of uniformity.

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Originally posted by R!CH your profile is an open palette, not a rigid cookie-cutter template of uniformity.

rigid cookie-cutter template?!?!?!? have you been on facebook lately and noticed the hundreds of facebook apps there?

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Originally posted by verndogs rigid cookie-cutter template?!?!?!? have you been on facebook lately and noticed the hundreds of facebook apps there?

yeah they are all extrordinary wastes of time and fit nicely into the rigid template.

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I'm a little biased since that is my (true) niche industry. But I would say hell yeah. You're missing out without it! ;P

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Originally posted by R!CH i was convinced to start a facebook a while back. other than keeping in touch with a tiny percentage of friends who just refuse to use myspace, i never even use it. i hate the format of the site and how everything on there is geared towards teenagers looking for ways to waste time, ie: pokes, gifts, drinks, invites, requests, quizzes, newsfeeds on how fast i'm breathing at the moment, etc. myspace seems to be the king of social networks and self promotion. everything on there has a purpose is and is to the point and from a marketing/promotional standpoint, your profile is an open palette, not a rigid cookie-cutter template of uniformity.

Believe it or not, if you keep the lamos and kiddies off your profile, you can have a very productive social networking tool. The networks alone are priceless. Google has 7,000+ of its employees on there. It'll be interesting to see, but I think Facebook could eliminate Linked-In in a matter of months if they keep beefing up their network structure the way I'm hearing.

For professionals, I think Facebook is an excellent tool. No other social network offers you such a diverse feed as to what your contacts are doing (and yes, you can eliminate the vampire/zombie, blah, blah, etc crap).

And for the youngins, it's a fun little playground for hooking up and adding silly little (money-making $$$) apps to their profile.

I have to give major props to their API. It's phenomenal. But it'll be interesting to see if they cave in to Google's Open-Social standards. Right now Mark Zuckerberg and company seem to be playing their cards right. I mean, how many other companies out there can sucker Microsoft into paying $250 MILLION for just 1.5% of their company.

Props, major props. ;]

man, i'm just waiting for it to go IPO

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i personally like http://going.com/ although like facebook i rarely use it. just to many social networking sites w/ to little time.

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Originally posted by Miss Julia most of my Canadian friends are on there.

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Originally posted by R!CH other than keeping in touch with a tiny percentage of friends who just refuse to use myspace, i never even use it.

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