My New Tweeps!
Tweeps: it’s your Twitter Peeps! What I love about all the different social media channels is that all of the major channels are distinctly different in so many ways.
Your Twitter Account isn’t Still Speaking to Facebook or Linkedin is it?
Linking Facebook to twitter is the most commonly accepted update that is still happening. Like Chuck Woolery, I love this connection. Twitter is the little bird of social media that talks a lot and can get away with it. Facebook is more of a quality update that might happen more than once a day but can easily be added to a twitter stream-if you’re active on twitter. If you just have twitter set up solely as a repeat reference for Facebook then call Joey Greco because you’ve got a problem.
Happy (Surprise) Birthday!
I think that surprises are harder and harder to pull off these days with the high use of social media, but leave it to my wife and friends to know better than to post anything on their FB pages or Twitter accounts about their plans for the evening.
The Lines Are A Little… Fuzzy
I love that my social life and my social media life are becoming very intertwined. Slowly but surely, Facebook is sort of defining relationships in a way that was never possible before, and has only become a recent occurrence. When I first started using Facebook, I was in college. The university I went to was […]
The "New" Facebook? Dislike!
My easy-to-navigate tabs disappeared at the top of the page and they were replaced by a paragraph of somewhat-meaningless facts about me – where I went to college, who I married, the languages I speak – and a filmstrip of pictures that were so weirdly cropped that it looked like some kind of artistic slide show of my various body parts. It was messy and cluttered – not to mention the fact that someone would have to look 3 inches down the page to see the really important stuff – like where I checked in from while Christmas shopping this morning, the three latest things I ‘like’ or how I feel about having to go back to work tomorrow.
Gardening, Philosophy, and Other "Social" Experiments
Now, in addition to the answer to our gardening question, we had food for thought for the rest of the day. With a diverse network of friends willing to share their expertise, there’s no end to what you can learn on Facebook.
I Don't Have 2000 Facebook Friends
Here’s something that gets me into arguments with other social media people: I won’t “friend” (yes, it’s a verb) anyone I don’t know. I’m not going to click on every face that shows up in the ‘People You May Know’ column on my home page. Because once we’re friends, you’re going to be let into my life.
That’s not to say that I’ve had deep, soul-searching conversations with all of my Facebook friends. I haven’t. But there has been some kind of interaction with all of them. If someone sends me a friend request, and I don’t know them – or if I really want to connect with someone who I haven’t actually met – I’ll send a Facebook message instead of the friend request. Hopefully, we’ll have some dialog and at some point, that conversation will move into a ‘friend’ ship.
