Love or hate FB, it has to be agreed, it is marketing genius

Last week, I was watching our local news in the morning, and had the thought about FB being such a big part of an average person's day...the newscasters brought up FB posts on the page, the weather man advised to follow him on FB for updates, two commercials had FB references to their companies, and then I left a while later and saw a new billboard for a seasonal flower shop with the FB logo on it.

No matter if you use FB or not, it is huge in marketing right now. So, I wonder if it will eventually die down, or it will become a "must do" for any business big or small.

These social networking sites make me mad because of how ridiculously basic they sometimes look....I could have come up with Twitter.

I think the basic looks of FB and Twitter are what killed the tacky and cheesy Myspace. Because Myspace really had all the concepts FB does, but people could bling it out, and that is not for the masses.

That's true....Myspace was a little TOO elaborate and cluttered with widgets and color schemes to the point where some people probably didn't wanna bother with it because they weren't feeling too creative. But Twitter is just ridiculously plain. It's the social network equivalent to pound cake.

It's the social network equivalent to pound cake.

I totally agree about Twitter. I think that an eventual evolution of FB will be a "Facebook Lite" option of sorts...something where users are not prompted to upload info or pics, just status updates, and links.

Shame they fucked it up. It was a nice place to play and Shale had a randy page, full of barechested boys who would flirt and share bulletins. But the management killed the goose - no more golden eggs.

But there are probably other, better targeted sites for that type of online play, aren't there? Myspace got so full of b.s., that I would guess that there was a lot of spam in relation to online flirting via Myspace.

I am only guessing since I have not been single since I had Internet at home.

RedBedroom wrote:

Shame they fucked it up. It was a nice place to play and Shale had a randy page, full of barechested boys who would flirt and share bulletins. But the management killed the goose - no more golden eggs.

But there are probably other, better targeted sites for that type of online play, aren't there? Myspace got so full of b.s., that I would guess that there was a lot of spam in relation to online flirting via Myspace.

I am only guessing since I have not been single since I had Internet at home.

This is just part of my top 40 friends - made a montage of barechested boys to greet me.


I started Shale on MySpace around 2005 and would see some cute boy and ask to friend and he would. Then the cute boys started asking me to friend them. We would share pics and bulletins and stuff in PMs that could not be shown on the board. Yeah, some of the guys were actually porn stars, some just cute, brash, funny young men.

I actually became friends with some - changed my relationship from adoring their bods to really getting to know them. Even made a couple of contacts IRL. But then the site changed and not too many ppl liked it. Left in droves, really their logon is down by millions and it is not happening any more.

It's genius but very gratuitous. Allows adults to revert back to their high school, "walking through the halls" mentality. And if you weren't popular in high school, you can pretend you were.

But it really isn't all about the friends' lists...it is almost a must for businesses both small and large.

My guy is a general contractor, and I would guess he is asked 20% of the time if he is on FB when giving an estimate. I can only project that percentage will increase. People seem to want to see the who's who of anything, and critiquing businesses fits right into the FB era.

RedBedroom wrote:Last week, I was watching our local news in the morning, and had the thought about FB being such a big part of an average person's day...the newscasters brought up FB posts on the page, the weather man advised to follow him on FB for updates, two commercials had FB references to their companies, and then I left a while later and saw a new billboard for a seasonal flower shop with the FB logo on it.

No matter if you use FB or not, it is huge in marketing right now. So, I wonder if it will eventually die down, or it will become a "must do" for any business big or small.

I think it will eventually die down; Facebook is trend. The way everyone is on Facebook now, including large corporations, is the same way they were on Myspace and AOL before that. I even have some very old CDs that feature an AOL keyword channel for the label, and even an AOL email address. Now no large company would be caught dead using AOL for email.

The thing about it, though, is that when Facebook dies down, something else will take its place.

I tried. It's just stupid & boring as hell to me. I don't use it for anything. If I need business info I'll go to their website or call them. I went back to twitter recently but I'm ambivalent about that. lol

Eventually something will pop up & replace them all too.