OK, I was wrong. I really didn’t think Facebook would survive. It was a fad that would fade away like Myspace. So, just another lesson to learn about people and in turn business.
Facebook was a curiosity I signed up for long ago just to understand the buzz. Technology is the broadest field of any, but you can’t really claim to be a technology expert and not know the basics of something hitting mainstream consciousness almost daily.
Search Engine Optimization was the craze at the time, so obviously it was my place to be for backlinks and a company page. Reading a lot growing up, I was always amazed about Asian culture and how over crowded and lacking in any privacy for the average person. Facebook felt like it could be that way. Then the rules changed and that funky little Facebook language for company pages changed decimating a two weeks worth of effort. Matrixforce serves organizations and not consumers, so the company page was abandoned. My Facebook presence was on auto-pilot while I went on to WordPress, Expert Articles, Tumblr, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Squidoo, Google Plus, and HubPages.
In the mean time, Facebook had the IPO, made numerous changes including vanity URLs for users and organizations, and has even managed to make money. Time flies and you’re there. Plus, unfortunately you do have to get the experience to have the wisdom of how all these services should be used.
Since Facebook is not going away, I used our trademark status to wrestle our Facebook URL from some security guard company in India and we’ll begin filling in the timeline, as we do a pretty fair job providing content for clients. Personally, my Facebook page will be … well … personal.
That’s the thing you learn: unlink your accounts because you should have a different persona on different services. Like probably a lot of people, I linked my Twitter account to everything. It was lazy, simple, and easy. However, that approach just spams the other services with the same stuff and what is appropriate for Facebook, may not be good fit for something like LinkedIn.
For my Facebook friends (which truly is a pretty small set of family, friends, classmates, etc.) don’t be alarmed when my account is largely decimated and changed. There may be the weekly post from my blog, but everything else will be personal. Go to the Matrixforce Facebook page if you want the business and technology stuff and you’ll just have to see how I use the other services.