Yet Another Big Fat Marketing Blog Post About Facebook
Hey, are you guys talking about Facebook? I LOVE Facebook! I love how marketers are taking advantage of it, and I love how Facebook causes personal relationships to crumble!
Seriously though, Brian Quinton and Erik Hauser both posted about Facebook in the past 48 or so hours, and I wanted to chime in. Why? Because if these were Facebook posts, I’d probably leave comments!
I agree with Erik that your social media network can have legions of fans and followers and still fail. I started on MySpace as a lurker and made maybe 5 human friends and 20 friends with celebrities and sports leagues. It didn’t seem like there was a lot of way of interacting with these people unless you sent a private message.
Facebook offered that Interactivity. What’s more, I could actually search for friends by their names and not some sort of crazy handle or lines from a bubble gum pop song. And now I’m one of those people Brian points out in his post:
Personally I
