Facebook, Websites, oh my
At the risk of stirring up a hornet's nest, I offer my observations.
Facebook is extraordinarily useful to a business or non-profit to get
the word out about their products or services to a huge group of potential
customers.
The intent should be to drive customers to your website.
I am well aware of the privacy issues surrounding Facebook. To open a
Facebook business or non-profit account, you do have to have a personal account,
but even a cursory glance at personal accounts will show you that many people
share no information about themselves on it.
Here's why I think Facebook is so important - because 2 billion (!!)
people have accounts and a very large fraction of people check their
pages daily. You can market your services or designs directly to those
interested, and for a nominal sum of money, extend your advertising reach to
people who have indicated an interest in what you offer but who might not have
seen your page.
Every book and individual design, if you really want to be crazy, should
have its own page and those pages should route the interested party back to your
main FB page and more importantly to your web page where you sell or make
accessible your products.
I recognize that computer pros and indeed many people denigrate FB and the
other social media sites such as Pinterest, but if you want to make a much
larger audience aware of your products and/or services so that you can sell
your products, in my opinion, you >cannot afford< to ignore these
platforms. It is the world we live in.
s/Pete Leenhouts
Port Ludlow WA
Re: Moderator: Facebook
Posted by: philbolger@... phil.bolger
Date: Fri Jun 3, 2016 12:27 pm ((PDT))
Interesting point, Myles, about speed and thus practical ’convenience’ under less-than-perfect-big-bore’ conduit-conditions.
And good to see confirmed what I’ve been hearing about FB etc. ministrations/administrations/frustrations.
I am not the first one to suggest that we’ll look back at this Zuckerberg-Enrichment-algorithm machine with astonished head-shaking at the wild upside-down equation afflicting the user.
Bill Gates got rich actually producing net utility that has had net economic value.
FB seems an energy and resource-absorption device with little to no net productive outcome, not-to-mention the highly-unethical destruction of privacy for what returns beyond Z-berg and Co.??
Why would I violate the sanctity of a friendship by screaming about it at the world ??
A weird ‘Honeypot’ scheme...
And stickier than honey.
Way darker.
Susanne Altenburger, PB&F
From: mailto:bolger@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 1:52 PM
To: bolger@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [bolger] Re: Moderator: Facebook
Posted by: philbolger@... phil.bolger
Date: Fri Jun 3, 2016 12:27 pm ((PDT))
Interesting point, Myles, about speed and thus practical ’convenience’ under less-than-perfect-big-bore’ conduit-conditions.
And good to see confirmed what I’ve been hearing about FB etc. ministrations/administrations/frustrations.
I am not the first one to suggest that we’ll look back at this Zuckerberg-Enrichment-algorithm machine with astonished head-shaking at the wild upside-down equation afflicting the user.
Bill Gates got rich actually producing net utility that has had net economic value.
FB seems an energy and resource-absorption device with little to no net productive outcome, not-to-mention the highly-unethical destruction of privacy for what returns beyond Z-berg and Co.??
Why would I violate the sanctity of a friendship by screaming about it at the world ??
A weird ‘Honeypot’ scheme...
And stickier than honey.
Way darker.
Susanne Altenburger, PB&F
From: mailto:bolger@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 1:52 PM
To: bolger@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [bolger] Re: Moderator: Facebook