Who Are Your Facebook Friends?
Think of your best friends in the world, or the people to whom you are closest. Are you Facebook friends with them? Or do you use another form of communication to keep up with them, like say, the telephone or email? Now, suppose you’re like me and you don’t connect with your closest friends and relatives through Facebook, who is it that you find yourself “talking” to the most? Old friends or acquaintances that you haven’t seen in a while? Former classmates? Maybe they’re people you didn’t even know that well, but since you both happen to be active on Facebook, you find yourself engaged in conversation. Or maybe, just maybe, you’re connecting with people who have interesting things to say. Yet, they still may not be the people to whom you are closest.
Frankly, I’m not sure what this means for Facebook and its future. People ask me what I think is going to be the next big thing in online relationships. I used to think that Facebook will continue to grow and that Twitter would die out, but now I’m not so sure. I hear more stories about people not using Facebook anymore. We all see how Facebook is becoming more and more commercialized and in some cases, over run by business. Didn’t we start going to Facebook because it was absent of that? At least we still have a choice as to what companies/organizations we choose to follow. For now. Once our Facebook lives become interrupted by commercials, we’ll all be looking for the next big thing! Let’s face it. I really like my high school classmates and all, but not enough to subject myself to advertising interruptions if some day it comes to that.
Ed Heil is the owner and president of StoryTeller Media & Communications an inbound marketing and public relations agency and video production company based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Ed blogs on topics related to inbound marketing, social media, media relations, news media, video production and crisis communications.
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