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I use facebook mainly to share funny and interesting things and ideas with my friends. My wife's small shop also has a fb account and she uses it to spread the word about her services, and already had a number of customers who came through facebook, so it works, at least for small businesses.
' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!' Mascan42
'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.' Ibid
I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!
I don't use it much......I could care less about somebody posting updates on their whereabouts, the new trick they tuaght their dog, new born baby pics (all babies are ugly to varying degrees), and so on......
The company I work for requests that we don't list them as our employer in our employment status....I agree with this as we have some federal accounts that don't appreciate social media.
LinkedIn, yes; I've actually been able to reconnect on a professional level with some old bosses and even clients.
The rest of the social world is either for twelve year olds or people who think that every moment of their life is some kind of grand and important statement to be recorded for all of posterity.
We use social media to try and drive traffic to our website. I use it mainly more for informational stuff like an extension of our website blog. If you focus more on engaging with people rather than trying to sell to them using social media, it works out a bit better. It's more about building your company as a brand and authority than anything.
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