This year I am resolved to manage my social media life better. For me, that includes a more effective use of the technology that’s out there. What motivated this? Recently, one of my colleagues started using a tool where they can connect all of their social lives in one place. So their FB, Twitter, RSS Feeds etc . all connect to each other. Sounds great right? It’s not. Since I follow them on Twitter and also are friends with them on FB, I get all of their messages twice and once more in their RSS Feed I subscribe to.
That made me think of an article I read recently that referenced how much time people actually spent on social media. If you know me what I did next won’t surprise you much. I did a little pre-happy hour ad hoc survey…hey that’s what marketers do. I asked each bar fly if they were on Facebook. An overwhelming majority were. Then we proceeded to have a conversation about smartphones and how we just forget to talk to people anymore because we think we already are talking.
I am probably one of the few people left on the planet that does not actually enjoy Facebook. I loathe getting on there, seeing a bunch of drivel from people I barely recognize, let alone want to know all of my goings-on. But alas, resistance is futile and for both business and personal reasons have a Facebook life. An article I read the other day got me thinking about the word “friends.”