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betiko wrote:I ve got friends from many countries as i ve lived in many countries myself. Only way to keep vaguely in touch.
And competing for friends numbers seriously? Who does that? I clean up my friend list about once a year, just get rid of the ones you don t care of anymore.
One does what he wants with his facebook, choses to share what he want, and choses not to see what he finds ludicrous. Might not be relevant for you to keep your profile, you re not the first nor the last to lose interest in it.
ChrisPond wrote:i resisted facebook for years...marketing people kept telling me i had to get on it for my business..."the new shiny thing everyone is doing." so i finally got on it with a personal account and then set up my business on it a few months later.
I spend way more time on it (just like this f-ing site) and have "friends" i have not seen since high school that are just nosy about what became of me (most are probably surprised i somehow managed to start a business and others probably think I am making the whole business thing up and i live in a van down by the river). it is nice to keep up with my brothers and sisters kids (lots of nieces and nephews) though. also nice (and a bit creepy) to see that ex-girlfriends find me there and stalk my status posts and my pictures.
Truth is, i use it mostly for business. I have a nice following on my business page and I network with other pond builders from all over the world and see what they are up to and what is new in the industry. we even have a couple of non public facebook pages where we can talk amongst each other in private. My business facebook page comes up as high as my website (first page) in my local market for just about any relevant google search and I have not spent a penny on my facebook page compared to the thousands and thousands of dollars paying a web person for the couple of sites I have had built over the years...page was just revamped and is a work in progress meaning i could spend way over the budget for it. I have made sales from my facebook page and have had strangers stop to tell me they are a fan of my page when I am advertising my trade at the local home and garden show so it is worth staying on for now.
i would post the business page link here but to be honest, you are all nuts and i am not sure i need to spend my time blocking you crazies.
trevor33 wrote:betiko wrote:I ve got friends from many countries as i ve lived in many countries myself. Only way to keep vaguely in touch.
And competing for friends numbers seriously? Who does that? I clean up my friend list about once a year, just get rid of the ones you don t care of anymore.
One does what he wants with his facebook, choses to share what he want, and choses not to see what he finds ludicrous. Might not be relevant for you to keep your profile, you re not the first nor the last to lose interest in it.
"Only way to VAGUELY keep in touch"
There's your answer... if facebook is the only way to keep in touch with someone are they actually friends worth keeping around? Would your life be emptier without them?
If you really want to keep in touch with someone there are many ways of doing it without facebook.
ChrisPond wrote:
i would post the business page link here but to be honest, you are all nuts and i am not sure i need to spend my time blocking you crazies.
nietzsche wrote:this makes me want to find your page and post it here. and i would pee and poo in all your fucking ponds. you pond fucker
Phatscotty wrote:FB is a palace of pussy
betiko wrote:I don't really like to mix pleasure and business, there are different type of social networks for that.
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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ChrisPond wrote:i resisted facebook for years...marketing people kept telling me i had to get on it for my business..."the new shiny thing everyone is doing." so i finally got on it with a personal account and then set up my business on it a few months later.
I spend way more time on it (just like this f-ing site) and have "friends" i have not seen since high school that are just nosy about what became of me (most are probably surprised i somehow managed to start a business and others probably think I am making the whole business thing up and i live in a van down by the river). it is nice to keep up with my brothers and sisters kids (lots of nieces and nephews) though. also nice (and a bit creepy) to see that ex-girlfriends find me there and stalk my status posts and my pictures.
Truth is, i use it mostly for business. I have a nice following on my business page and I network with other pond builders from all over the world and see what they are up to and what is new in the industry. we even have a couple of non public facebook pages where we can talk amongst each other in private. My business facebook page comes up as high as my website (first page) in my local market for just about any relevant google search and I have not spent a penny on my facebook page compared to the thousands and thousands of dollars paying a web person for the couple of sites I have had built over the years...page was just revamped and is a work in progress meaning i could spend way over the budget for it. I have made sales from my facebook page and have had strangers stop to tell me they are a fan of my page when I am advertising my trade at the local home and garden show so it is worth staying on for now.
i would post the business page link here but to be honest, you are all nuts and i am not sure i need to spend my time blocking you crazies.
iAmCaffeine wrote: @betty - LinkedIn isn't really for business. It is for people in a professional environment. Some people use that to exclusively advertise their company, others don't. There is a slight difference. Lots of people generate a good amount of business through Facebook, and increase their reach/reputation at minimum.
betiko wrote:[ And yeah, there are lots of annoying things, like your friends asking you to like their business page. Isn't there linkedin for that? I don't really like to mix pleasure and business, there are different type of social networks for that.
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