Facebook Insights – Why should you use them?

Why you should be using Facebook Insights Did you know that if you have a Facebook page, you can find out how successful it is by using Facebook’s free Insights tool? Most people who start up a Facebook page have no idea that Facebook provide free stats for you to use to track the progress of your Facebook page. In fact, most people might not even know why they would want to use Facebook...

You’ve got 4,500 Facebook friends aren’t you popular

No you don’t, and no one is that popular, not even Mother Theresa had that many friends. I’ve got around 100 or so friends on Facebook, these are people that I know, have worked with or care about for one reason or another, not randoms who remember me from that time we said hello to one another at that thing held by what’s her name back in 1999. There’s seems to be three...

If Mohammed Won’t Go To The Mountain…

Bring the Mountain to Mohammed. It’s always eye-opening when working with large companies that often it’s not a case of ‘cant’ when it comes to social media, but more a case of ‘won’t’. During my time working with companies who are taking their first tentative steps into social media, there’s often an ideology that what happens ‘out there’ doesn’t really affect things ‘in...

Is One Social Networking Profile Enough?

I realized today that it’s taking me longer and longer to keep up to date with all the various social networking sites I’m on. Facebook has long been my mainstay when it comes to updates and keeping in touch with friends and family, possibly because it avoids all the things I hate about MySpace. The last time I was on MySpace I was so inundated with random friend requests, adverts...

Interconnectivity Teaches Us Too Much – The Downside of Social Networking

A realisation occurred to me today. Although I love technology and couldn’t live without it, there is a point where you can know far too much about the people around you. Traditionally with friendships you see people once or twice a week and enjoy spending a few hours with them. You catch up and listen to what they have been up to. You then go your own way and live separate lives for a...

Facebook Still Blocks “Lesbian”

For those of you who have been taking an interest in my situation with Facebook, I wanted to keep you updated with the communication between myself and a Facebook representative. As you all know from my post yesterday (see below), I replied to the initial brush off email I received from them with this – “I don’t really understand the situation to be honest. There’s no...