FACEBOOK -- 10 Important Points
These set of Facebook Tips I found on Pravdam... and I think they are worth sharing
1. Be careful with whom you connect - so you can keep the network personal. When someone you don’t know asks to connect with you, you should always email him/her and ask how you know each other, and why you should connect. If you don’t get an answer, then ignore the request. This way you can feel comfortable with writing a status message such as “Kfir is having a bad day” without feeling, well, bad.
2. Create groups in areas that are not saturated, and you can add value to the community
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3. Don’t nag people in the group too much - this is Facebook, not Ning. Learn from Chris Brogan’s Grasshoppers experience.
4. Choose the applications you use carefully - don’t Myspace your Facebook profile. Check all the applications you find, but be very careful with the ones you keep on your profile.
5. Invite your friends only to useful or fun applications - and no, Zombie is not one of them
6. Constantly review the groups you are member of, and engage in the discussions there. Nothing new here - this is a social network, so, be social.
7. Try to be a member of up to 30 groups - so people can see what are your topics of interest.
8. Initiate discussion threads between your friends - but don’t spam them. This is a great way to create a conversation with your friends not only you are talking with people you like, you are also helping them to connect amongst themselves. Did we mention that this is a social network?
9. Make your profile interesting to read - Invest a lot of time in creating a profile that not only provides information but make people read it through. Applications like iRead, friends wheel, flixster, and wordpress plugin (if you have a blog) bring your profile to life.
10. The most important tip of all - use it as a part of your social media toolbox - mesh it up with your blog, create events that are relevant to your day to day live, share your posts and video material and so on. It is like a snowball effect - one effort feeds the other and increase the impact of your online and offline social activities.
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The Social Network
From the Wikipedia A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services. Social networking has created new ways to communicate and share information. Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people, and it now seems that social networking will be an enduring part of everyday life. The main types of social networking services are those which contain directories of some categories (such as former classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages), and recommender systems linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with MySpace and Facebookbeing the most widely used in North America; Nexopia (mostly in Canada); Bebo, Facebook, Hi5, MySpace, Tagged, Xing; andSkyrock in parts of Europe; Orkut and Hi5 in South America and Central America; and Friendster, Orkut, Xiaonei and Cyworld in Asia and the Pacific Islands. So here we go, its time we delve into the Online Virtuality of the Social Networks and get the more out of it... C ya!!!