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| 72hrpartyanimal |
Would anybody recommend it??
There are a lot of generic friendster/myspace sites out there...
Is facebook worth the time and energy???
especially for promo stuff?? |
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| CrazedOut |
| For promotions probably not, it's not a spam disaster like myspace :p |
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| Miss Julia |
| 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. |
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| mar46017 |
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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| 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. |
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| verndogs |
| quote: | 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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| R!CH |
| quote: | 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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| skizzell |
Facebook == Web 2.5
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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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| skizzell |
| quote: | 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. :wtf:
Props, major props. ;] |
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| gerard6975 |
| man, i'm just waiting for it to go IPO :) |
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| rizo |
| 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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| Andrieux |
| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Julia
most of my Canadian friends are on there. |
+1
| quote: | 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. |
+1 |
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