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Re: Facebook Lowering The BOOM on “5000 friends”

MariSmith — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:07:52 -0000

Wow, Ed - I just read your post after reading Lynn Terry's thought-provoking post about the whole Facebook Profile vs. Page debate. http://www.clicknewz.com/2026/

You know I love ya to bits... and I gotta completely disagree with your line of approach. I, too, have been promoting the Facebook Fan Page (blogged about it in March 2008: http://whyfacebook.com/2008/03/05/on-facebook-p...) and yet, there is so much mileage to be gained from utilizing both a personal Profile and a Fan Page(s).

I have most of my friends separated into Friend Lists and filter my News Feed this way to keep on top of important matters and nurture many key relationships. That wouldn't be possible on just a Fan Page. I see the personal Profile as a powerful medium for strategic professional networking - to see and be seen, to keep that top of mind awareness with key influencers.

I often say to my students and clients that out of 300 million users, you can "only" be friends with 5000 of them and to, therefore, think of that network as a high level mastermind in a way. Choosing who you friend (or don't) is so important. If Facebook should ever reduce the friend limit, so be it.

Re the TOS changing, this is not new news that we can't use our Profiles for commerce. The part you've highlighted above is new - and was likely added to catch the scoundrels who are literally selling Facebook friends and trying to monetize status updates directly.

I'm just sad that your post is worded in such a way to put down other marketers. I know your intentions are kind. I'm a great believer in there are no hard and fast rules for how to do anything, particularly social media. But of course, we can make up our own rules for our own playground. So, as I say, love ya to bits and I know you're an awesome leader in this arena... just had to pop my $0.02 in. ;)

Cheers,
Mari

Re: I Am T-Pain: cheese please

cheesidaychallenge — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:15:47 -0000

holy sh*t ed that was funny

Re: I Am T-Pain: cheese please

twitter-17459635 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:12:15 -0000

Ed,
Have you just made Phil redundant? :)

Danny

Re: Facebook Lowering The BOOM on “5000 friends”

standubin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:50:42 -0000

THE example that Facebook gives is "such as selling your status update to an advertiser." Now that is definitely using FB for commercial purposes AS OPPOSED TO simply making it known on your profile page what you do, what you offer, etc.

It IS possible that Ed's admonition is more tempest in a teapot (finally, I got to use that expression in real life) - I mean, it just may be that FB doesn't want people using their infrastructure for commercial purposes, as in the example FB themselves give. I'm sure they would also have a problem with someone who built up 5,000 friends and then sold that "FB identity" to someone. FB may have no problem whatsoever with business people letting their friends and the world know what they do, what they offer and how you can find out more about these things.

Having said all that, it would be good indeed if FB actually clarified this point.

Re: So Am I!!!!

Lordy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:46:24 -0000

Got it. Installed it. Great! MBP is soooo much faster now.

Re: Sunday In Tokyo

Douglas — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:58:54 -0000

Thought you might like this Ed:

The BBC published an article about the 10 best jokes from this years Edinburgh Fringe.
This was my favourite…

Marcus Brigstocke - “To the people who’ve got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn’t invent it!”

Re: Now Thats What I’m Talking About!

superjunaid — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:36:51 -0000

Niice!!

Re: So Am I!!!!

grahunt — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:10:52 -0000

I would never have guessed

Re: Why I Love The Internet - Reason 963

twitter-18343393 — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:32:20 -0000

I have to agree, my daughter is also learning piano and at times it is hard to get her to practice. As a way around this I get her online to do a show for her grandparents who live in Beijing with us in Canberra.

She also loves to do ballet performances for them across the internet.

Re: Best Kept Secrets of the 30dc…

twitter-29309515 — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:06:57 -0000

Great! Just got the transcripts...you guys just keep adding value to this whole learning experience. Thank you.

Re: What’s Not To Like About Tokyo..,

JeffLink — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:52:39 -0000

Hey Ed, When I go to Russia in September. I am going to stop by the new Leica store, in Moscow in your honor.

Re: Now Thats What I’m Talking About!

davinab — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:16:52 -0000

The World's Fastest Indian (2005), is a great film based on the Invercargill, New Zealand speed bike racer Burt Munro played by Sir Anthony Hokins and his highly modified Indian Scout motorcycle.

Re: Now Thats What I’m Talking About!

Tom — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:40:51 -0000

Why does it say at the top "Hosted by: World's fastest Indian". Sounds a bit crazy!

Re: That’s A Lot Of Leica!

Juho — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:38:03 -0000

Wonder how much the golden one goes for... 25 grand, give or take?

Re: Now Thats What I’m Talking About!

Brad — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:36:35 -0000

Will we ever see that in Australia? #nbn

Re: Now Thats What I’m Talking About!

twitter-69678231 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:30:36 -0000

Is that @ the speed of light LOL

Re: Reasons to love Singapore Airport!

Juho — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:24:12 -0000

Wow that IS nice...

Re: Reasons to love Singapore Airport!

twitter-61148680 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:22:10 -0000

Aww I loved the Koi in the fountains

Re: Zed and Molly at Werribee Zoo

dorotheaeli — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:13:03 -0000

Who's that creepy monster next to that nice girl? Brrrr ;)

Re: This could be very cool…

twitter-54795739 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:17:58 -0000

Yep, I liked this too!

Also experimenting with http://www.stupeflix.com as a new content creation option.

Re: PopCap’s ‘Plants vs. Zombies’ Coming to iPhone

mikegerhard — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:27:22 -0000

YES,,,, thank you Ed, downloading it now to my i-phone.

P.S. loving this years 30 day challenge, thanks for all you do...

Mike

Re: PopCap’s ‘Plants vs. Zombies’ Coming to iPhone

eddale — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:47:11 -0000

Was it e-myth?

Ed

Re: PopCap’s ‘Plants vs. Zombies’ Coming to iPhone

mikegerhard — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:33:17 -0000

Hi Ed, I just finished listening to a recording of you on a Howie Schwartz pre recorded conference call. You had mentioned a book possilbly called "genius". One of the books that you highly recommend, the audio dropped out and I cannot find the book title that has to do with business building and avoiding the pitfalls of being a hobbyist. Can you give the full title and author so I can purchase. Thanks. Mike

Re: This could be very cool…

twitter-17459635 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:49:35 -0000

Looks very interesting!

by the way, how do you know what you sound like on valium?

::danny

Re: Google Forced to Reveal Identity of Offensive Blogger

brucedstewart — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:04:56 -0000

We as human beings do not have a right to speak like that (about a person we do not know) in this medium.
He should keep his opinions to the pub environment
The judge is correct and the person who made those remarks should be fined.

In print if you haven't got anything good to say about someone you personally don't know
you shouldn't say anything.