facebook false friends and marketing

Social Media… really? Do you think so?

The facebook memo?

*Inspiration comes from an agent who actually sent me this—this morning. Clearly she didn’t get the facebook memo.

Really? You want me to upload photos so I can “share” with you, so you can use facebook as a marketing tool? Really? Ok, I’ll oblige. As long as you pay the hosting fees on this blog. What do you say? It’s a fair trade, right?

I get to give you my attention for your advertising that you’re going to post in my news feed. Let’s call it what it is.

I can’t even believe that that is what the invite says. Also, I can’t believe that someone would actually “assume” that someone didn’t have a facebook account. I know people that aren’t alive anymore that have twitter and facebook accounts. Seriously.

I’m glad that people are still talking about the importance of social media and its impact on culture and our economics, but I don’t think it’s worthy of much discussion unless you are actually trying to learn about it.

When the radio waves entered the American household did everyone sit around and record radio shows about how the radio was changing the world? How about the T.V.? Did people gather around the television and watch people talking about how the television changed their lives?

But I digress… back to the late invite by an agent trying to get in front of me…

Did she really think I want to clutter up my facebook stream with ads? Why would I want to do that? That’s why I have a facebook account—to get away from the ads!!! I get to choose which ads I see. Sorry, but those are the facts. That’s why I basically only accept “friends” now that are in various networks that I belong to. Don’t misunderstand me. I’m not the most connected person, but I have been using them for a good while now.

Facebook has always been about its connectivity. Why would I want to be connected to the very people that have been trying to disconnect me? Welcome to facebook and twitter. Did you set up a MySpace account yet? Maybe take a look at Bebo.com while you’re at it.