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Okay I'm probably one of the Hyperconnected crazies out there that has accounts on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
SlideShare, Ning, Blip, just to name a few. I immediately saw the
application for LinkedIn to be used in business, although I felt it was
pretty static and weak at first, but FaceBook has only recently become
my site of choice. I only set up a FaceBook account to dabble in it
and see who was using it, how it was being used and then of course to
spy on my, then 17-year-old, daughter! Just kidding. But I did
immediately "become friends" with her and her buddies who, for some
weird reason, wanted to be on my page. My 26-year-old son who lives in
Californa and works in the digital media industry, also has a Facebook
account and we occasionally drop each other a note on the other's wall,
but I think he thinks it's still odd that his mom has a Facebook
account to begin with.Just this month my 12-year-old daughter got on
board and I helped her create her own Facebook account--hey now I can
invite them all to dinner by posting the menu on their wall!
Where
Facebook completely lost me, was when people started sending me EGGS,
GIFTS, TREES, BUMPERSTICKERS, REQUESTS TO KIDNAP and of course the
popular, "NICEST PERSON AWARD" votes. The requests have a button to
accept or ignore, which out of guilt, I would accept, only to be routed
to another page asking me to sign up for the application and take me
down a time-sucking hole that I quickly backed out of.
One
year later, the EGGS and other gifts have slowed down. I am a little
hurt, but more productive for it. It could be because I have updated my
FaceBook page to be a bit more professional. I've added my Twitter feed
into the page, lots of great discussion posts, and many business
contacts have now joined me from LinkedIn (which I still maintain) over
onto Facebook.
The funny thing is, many of my professional
contacts are now into sending the EGGS, TREES, THROWING SNOWBALLS etc.
and just this morning I got a NICEST PERSON AWARD request from a
client. Out of a combination of guilt and obligation, I accepted the
"vote" which took me to a page where I had to select from my list of
contacts, to send them the same "vote." It's kind of like a chain
letter concept-you send it to 15 people and they send it to their list
of 15 people and so on it goes, unitl it returns to you.
When I
started scrolling down to select my peeps, I found that I was having a
hard time deciding who I wanted to select. Not because they weren't
nice, but because if one of my clients got the request from me, they
would wonder what I was doing with my time, and if I send the request
to my 26-year-old son or his fiance, they would think I was a dork! So
I sent it to my two daughters and their friends. They already think
I'm a dork and I'm okay with that!
Check out some of Gina's dorkier moments on her Gettin'Geeky show. All of the episodes can be found in the Media Library at http://www.synapse3Di.com
