They say that everything that you post on the Internet becomes part of the public record, and could affect you down the road if a potential employer decides to do a little social media digging to see whether you really would be a good employee or not.
Sure, some things could be attributed to a little venting in your status updates, but there’s also the possibility of trends emerging that you may not see unless you’re looking at your profile with a fresh set of eyes.
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Steven Corona is the Chief Tech Officer at Twitpic, according to his website.
So you would think that someone who is that involved with social media — such as the relationship between Twitter and Twitpic, that going even one hour without using any form of social media would be akin to telling a race car driver that he can only walk to work.
So can you do what Steven decided to do? Can you give up all forms of social media for thirty days?
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Were you one of the lucky ones who decided to buy Facebook stock on opening day?
Lucky, only if you also sold it immediately. If you decided to take a long approach of buy-and-hold, you’re probably cursing the banks and others that drove the IPO price as high as it did.
So it ends up that right now, Facebook doesn’t have a lot of fans. For financial reasons, due to the rapidly declining stock price. For personal reasons, by posting a legally-meaningless “you don’t have rights to access my profile” status update.
Look – it’s quite easy. If you hate everything about Facebook — just stop using it. Life marched on for years without Facebook, and life will continue to exist for you once you stop using it.
People who will only be your friend online and not IRL (that’s “in real life”) were not really your friends. People who beg you to play Words with Friends with them but turn their noses up at playing a real-world game of Scrabble are not those you’d want to play against anyway.
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Face it – everyone can be a little bit of a douchebag once in a while.
It may not always be seen in public, but it can happen.
And it doesn’t really matter if you say “douche”, “douchebag”, “bouchedag” or some other variation. A douche is a douche, no matter what you call it.
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Even if you’re one of those Occupy Wall Streeters, complaining about everything that Big Business is doing to Keep You Down, chances are you’re also a little bit brand conscious.
Aside from the fact that the OWS movement went to all the trouble of ensuring that they have a trademark on “OCCUPY WALL STREET”, those 99% really aren’t any different from the rest of us.
They’re wearing name-brand clothing, purchased at a name-brand retailer.
They’re marketing their protest with Apple and Google phones, using Facebook and Twitter over cellular networks or purloined free WiFi connections that are setup/maintained/paid for by other corporations.
A protest is fine, and bringing attention to companies’ misdeeds is powerful — but don’t complain about how all businesses are bad if you have to rely on them in order to handle your protest in the first place.
See, it really IS all about branding and marketing, isn’t it?
If you’re on Facebook or Twitter, take a good look at who your friends and followers are.
Take a look at who you’re following yourself.
Chances are, YOU DON’T KNOW EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE PEOPLE IN YOUR CIRCLE OF CONTACTS IN REAL LIFE.
Yup, IRL doesn’t apply to your social network. It’s just a bunch of names of people that you have no idea who they really are.
Should you be surprised about this? Probably not.
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This is an open letter to the marketing staff at MGM Resorts, Caesars Entertainment, Sands, and other casino corporations. And if you’re part of the marketing staff at a different type of company, you may want to pay attention to this as well – since the core takeaway here applies to you as well.
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How many Facebook friends do you have?
No, really — how many of the people you have “friended” on Facebook are really, honestly your friends? People that you know IRL (that’s “In Real Life” for those of you who don’t know), that you would talk to anyway over the matter of course?
Yeah, we thought so. You really only know about what – 130 people, tops? So whatcha doing with that Facebook friend list that’s hovering around the 462 person mark?
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