FaceBook, Twitter, Blogs
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Jaffas
Cathlete
Here's how I use them.
Facebook is for friends and family. I have my own business and can go for days without talking to anyone except DH and cashiers. FB is like my virtual office. There's the newsfeed where I can interact with everyone, even people who I might not hang out with outside of work. Many of my FB friends are ex-coworkers. There is also the inbox where I communicate privately with my "real" friends. Before I started my blog FB and these boards were all the social networking I needed.
A Blog is like an online diary. I never thought I would start one but for some reason I came up with this crazy idea to cook with my solar oven every day for one year and blog about it. Many people start blogs as a kind of family scrapbook. I wanted my blog to be seen by as many people as possible, partly because I'd like to promote solar cooking and partly out of vanity. For this reason I started using Twitter. Mostly as a tool to drive people to my blog. And it worked. Just today a received an email from the president of a company that make solar ovens and he wants to meet/work with me.
Twitter is the hardest one to understand. I really don't get how anyone can follow millions of people. I get new followers every day on Twitter now that I have a specific thing to tweet about (solar cooking). I didn't get any, except for porn spam, with my personal Twitter account.
Hope that helps. I'm new to all these things too.
Facebook is for friends and family. I have my own business and can go for days without talking to anyone except DH and cashiers. FB is like my virtual office. There's the newsfeed where I can interact with everyone, even people who I might not hang out with outside of work. Many of my FB friends are ex-coworkers. There is also the inbox where I communicate privately with my "real" friends. Before I started my blog FB and these boards were all the social networking I needed.
A Blog is like an online diary. I never thought I would start one but for some reason I came up with this crazy idea to cook with my solar oven every day for one year and blog about it. Many people start blogs as a kind of family scrapbook. I wanted my blog to be seen by as many people as possible, partly because I'd like to promote solar cooking and partly out of vanity. For this reason I started using Twitter. Mostly as a tool to drive people to my blog. And it worked. Just today a received an email from the president of a company that make solar ovens and he wants to meet/work with me.
Twitter is the hardest one to understand. I really don't get how anyone can follow millions of people. I get new followers every day on Twitter now that I have a specific thing to tweet about (solar cooking). I didn't get any, except for porn spam, with my personal Twitter account.
Hope that helps. I'm new to all these things too.
Jaffas
Cathlete
Yes, people can search for you on Facebook but they can't access you profile unless you add them as a friend. If you ignore their friend request they don't get any kind of notification that you did so. I have one ex-coworker that I really disliked try to befriend me three times! I guess she can't take a hint. I have a very unique name so I'm easy to find and have even been found by people from as far back as middle school (I'm 49). I like FB a lot because I have been able to rekindle many past friendships that otherwise would have been lost for ever.