Comments on: Social Networking Friends vs. Real Life Friends

By: colestan

colestan — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:06:38 +0000

Social networking sites had influenced so many people nowadays. People, who are not real life friends, can connect to other people. In this way, there’s a possibility to build new friendship within your network. Because of this endless connect to other people, more and more businesses take advantage of it. The use of social networking sites is a free advertisement anyway.

By: Liz Isaacs

Liz Isaacs — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:05:50 +0000

Thanks Irene for your reply. I think a lot of times we sometimes only focus on what’s in front of us not the whole picture.

By: Irene Koehler

Irene Koehler — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:08:20 +0000

Great job, Liz, in taking a look at the big picture. I agree that there are benefits of using the various platforms for different purposes as they engage different audiences. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

By: Liz Isaacs

Liz Isaacs — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:36:39 +0000

Also, it should be noted that social media while it’s definitely here to stay and should be an integral part of one’s marketing strategy. It should not be the panacea or alpha-omega of marketing. There are other components that still needs to be including tradition media, pr etc.

By: Liz Isaacs

Liz Isaacs — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:33:30 +0000

RT @irenekoehler Social Networking Friends vs. Real Life Friends http://bit.ly/bCqR1G

WOW! Irene you and Paul bring up lots of interesting things to think about.

It’s all about balance, common sense and how transparent do we really want to be without having any negative repercussions.You both forgot to mention blogging–i.e. WP, HuffPo etal–be careful what you post if it’s not business related etc.

Facebook while I do use it for business, I am more social with my various groups than on LinkedIn. On FB, I do my best to balance things out-if someone is questionable I do hide them on my feed unless I remove them.

LinkedIn I use to connect with others building business relationships through my networking efforts. I am less engaging on a social level as on FB, Twitter etal on LI even though I try to be cordial in my group discussions, q&a etc. I only tweet business related tweets there since it is a business site.

Twitter-social in furthering building relationships. Do use the 80-20 Rule–tweeting more engaging industry, trade news,answering client questions etc and less about me v. shameless promotion. Also, I am careful if I tweet on FB too.

Blogging providing info to my readers, fans, clients etal.

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