Comments on: Shut Your Facebook ? http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/2009/11/16/shut-your-facebook/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:03:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Leif Harmsen http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/2009/11/16/shut-your-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-725 Leif Harmsen Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:54:10 +0000 http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/?p=245#comment-725 It's more than that. Businesses that once flocked to Facebook when it was novel are getting wise and retreating. Ads used to encourage people to "join us on Facebook!" now fewer and fewer businesses do. They advertise only their own URL. Why? If you're going to send people somewhere, send them to your own website, not away from your website to Facebook's. No business plan should include being beholden to Facebook or the like in any way at all. When you keep your list of contacts yourself, it is a business asset. If you let Facebook do it "for" you, it is their asset, NOT yours. Business people, MBAs etc. tend to understand the not-so-subtle issue of ownership, and so are the first to invest in themselves rather than a Facebook owned version of them that, when push comes to shove, Facebook controls. Facebook connections are poor quality and not really yours to take with you. For those who have figured it out, a Facebook profile indicates that the individual is not sufficiently informed or aware to behave professionally online. It’s more than that. Businesses that once flocked to Facebook when it was novel are getting wise and retreating. Ads used to encourage people to “join us on Facebook!” now fewer and fewer businesses do. They advertise only their own URL. Why? If you’re going to send people somewhere, send them to your own website, not away from your website to Facebook’s. No business plan should include being beholden to Facebook or the like in any way at all. When you keep your list of contacts yourself, it is a business asset. If you let Facebook do it “for” you, it is their asset, NOT yours. Business people, MBAs etc. tend to understand the not-so-subtle issue of ownership, and so are the first to invest in themselves rather than a Facebook owned version of them that, when push comes to shove, Facebook controls.

Facebook connections are poor quality and not really yours to take with you. For those who have figured it out, a Facebook profile indicates that the individual is not sufficiently informed or aware to behave professionally online.

]]> By: Online MLM Marketing http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/2009/11/16/shut-your-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-715 Online MLM Marketing Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:42:47 +0000 http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/?p=245#comment-715 Social media takes up so much peoples time...the time people spend on facebook is crazy. And at work it is so distracting. You absolutely right on your observation. Good post. Social media takes up so much peoples time…the time people spend on facebook is crazy. And at work it is so distracting. You absolutely right on your observation. Good post.

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