Today I went to a class on using social media, and sat there slack-jawed. Yes, I do use Facebook. Yes, I do have a smart phone. Yes, I know what Twitter IS, though I never saw a reason to join it. But the cute blonde 20something teaching the class gave an overview of stuff I'd never heard of, and I realized that I've got to get my social media skills up to speed. So I joined Twitter, just to check it out - and I have to say, I don't see the point. I GET Facebook. I love Facebook. Twitter is like being bombarded with 140 character sound bites, half of which contain abbreviated links to other pages, while the other half refer to @somebody's comment which I didn't see.
But I shall persevere, because social media really is the new marketing and I need to build a business. And I definitely CAN see ways to have fun with it - part of my "business strategy" is to just share the fun of living in Asheville, and I can see Twitter as well as FB as tools to share my experiences. I've also realized that my efforts to keep my Real Name off the Internet are now not just silly but counter-productive. I am not going to turn this into a real estate blog (I'll start a separate site for that) but there's no good reason to keep my name off this at this point, when I'm plastering my name and face all over.
Meanwhile, I am a day (or so) late, but here's the video of Supergirl Speaks. It's only a couple of words, not her entire vocabulary, we were just fooling around.
The 20-somethings I work with love to tease me about being "Amish"---I don't have cable television (I try to watch as little TV as possible), I don't have a cell phone, and I just upgraded to high-speed internet from dial-up about a year ago. I can understand your use of social media for your business, but for the average person, I don't see the point of plastering yourself all over the internet, for God-only-knows-who to see. I tried to join a local book group, but the only way to sign up is through meet-up, and since I don't have a Facebook account, that is next to impossible, and I'm okay with that. I can't get over how much money that they don't really have these kids are spending on all the hardware and internet connectivity for all this social media, and how little of actual value they seem to get out of it, especially when you factor in the time they spend on it. I realize I'm starting to sound like my dad here, but I'm going to cling to life off of the grid for as long as I can.
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If you're talking about Meetup.com, I am a member and like it very much. Each group is independently run, so some may be duds while others are great - but my hiking group is on Meetup, and the guy who runs it is amazing - as good as a professional (his day job is accounting). I also like, and use, Facebook, though I only friend people I know, and even some of them are on hide because all they did was play Farmville. Twitter, eh. I will try to master it, but I really don't see the point.
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