Martin Koss – thinking out loud…
I don't mean to be so opinionated and argumentative, it's just me…
Like “us”. I mean “me”
Templates can often be a dead give-away that you were a bit lazy when it comes to the design of your website, blog or – as we’re looking at here – your Facebook page.
Even worse is the use of images and text that came as defaults within the chosen template. The perfect example, and probably the most common, is the use of “us” when the website, blog or Facebook Business Page is that of a ‘one man / woman band’.
How Can I Like What I Can’t See?
Asking new visitors to ‘like’ your page before they see some content is like a shop-keeper standing outside their shop preventing window shoppers and preventing you from coming in before you recommend the shop to your friends.
“But I want to have a look around.”
“Not before you say you ‘like’ the shop, sorry, you’re not coming in.”
“But I don’t know if I ‘like’ it yet!”
“Then you’re not coming in!”
“Can’t I at least see what you’ve got – to see if I do, in fact, ‘like’ it?”
“Not before you ‘like’ it!”
Facebook Adopt Failed PageRank Ranking Model
It will come as no big headline that Facebook and MSN (Bing as it is known now, or is it Yahoo this week? Maybe it’s all 3 now that Microsoft and Yahoo have sign prenuptuals – a “ménage à trois” perhaps) are in bed all snuggled up cosy (nudge nudge wink wink) planning some strategies to knock the Google train off the tracks…. but is Facebook really about to adopt the completely flawed “PageRank” model for their internal (and possibly external) search algorithm?
After all your hard work designing your ‘fan/like’ page on Facebook for your business and after carefully integrating the universal ‘like’ button into your website or blog, could it (and you) end up never being found by Facebook users unless you have friends in all the right places ‘liking’ you?
Well, as the gossip mill would have it – yes.
Facebook seem to be moving full steam ahead with an ‘us’ and ‘them’ model for there search thingy.
Anyone who knows me will know that I am far from Facebook’s biggest fan – in fact – I hate the darn thing. I don’t dislike the concept, no more than I have a chuckle at the Twitter concept and all the other wannabe social networking platforms – I just think the ‘power’ and ‘celebrity Facebookers’ along with many dumb-ass users have lost the plot and turned a good idea into stupidity – driven by numbers. Continue reading
Facebook Reclaims Your Space – Indian Giver
A few years ago I gave away quite an expensive TV stand and just recently, after moving house and rearranging TVs (etc., blah, blah, blah) we could have really done with it. What did I do? Well, I went out and bought a new one, of course. I’m not gonna go and take back what I gave away, that’s just not on, is it?
But if you’re Facebook, that’s exactly what you do.
What do you do when you get too big for your boots? Well, you either squeeze, rather uncomfortably, into the boots you’ve got or you get bigger boots, of course. Or, if you’re Facebook, you just reclaim some of the extra room in your boots that you’d previously shared with other people – us.
The Indian Giver! Continue reading
Do You Recognize This Bowl Of Strawberries?
Ehmm… Strawberries. Now who are you? Please tell. Who took the photo and who tagged themselves in it? How the heck should I know? Why am I even asking?
Facebook security check asked me! Yep. Please confirm your identity by telling us (FB) which of your friends is tagged in the following photographs – Photo numero uno: a bowl of strawberries.
Not quite sure about that one. I’m gonna have to guess. Shall we move on. Continue reading
Not a Fan of the Like Button… Here’s Why.
It’s been with us for a couple of months or so now and I’ve been monitoring the effect it has had on what once was our ‘Fanning’ antics – and there’s been some worrying activities emerging now that the universal ‘Like’ button has gone ‘mainstream’.
And you know what?
I’m becoming less of a ‘fan’ of the universal ‘like’ button everyday.
‘Clickjacking’ has taken on many forms recently and the most common version I’ve seen (there are many) is when a friend ‘likes’ some app that dives unrelentingly into your friends list before you get chance to click away.
You show me yours before I show you mine
I think a ‘snapshot’ feature (like you get at Bing) would be a good thing here on FB, so we can get a preview of what a friend just ‘liked’ …before we click it.
why…? I hear you asking.
Well think back a few months and if you saw a friend had become a ‘Fan’ of something, you were fairly safe to click Continue reading
Facebook Staff Missed Memo About Fan Pages
I’m sure we all know that outdated content is something you don’t want on your website or blog – although so many ignore that guideline (probably because most blogs would lose 80%+ of their old posts) but how bad is it when one of the world-leaders in our social network forgets to remove their old adverts weeks after making massive changes?
Did Someone Miss The Memo?
For a few days now I have been noticing this advert and wondering which monkey at Facebook clearly did not read the memo that Fan Pages are no longer called Fan Pages and their is no such thing as a FAN any longer – we LIKE things now… Continue reading
Stop, Think, Like, Check Facebook Page
Yeah – I know – Facebook has made us all become ‘Likers‘ (I know it’s not a word but that’s what we are now)… I, like you, perhaps, was a ‘Fan’ of oodles of businesses but now I just ‘Like’ them – enough said about that though ‘cos here’s a big whopper of a warning! Continue reading
Are You Missing Your Facebook ‘Fans’
I know I already sang the praises of the ‘Universal “Like” Button‘ and I stick to that but when Facebook originally unveiled the latest changes I, like many, was asked the inevitable “what d’ya think” by loads of people. Okay maybe not ‘loads’ – my wife asked me. Continue reading
Facebook Rolling Out More Changes – Like it or Not!
Change is good! Do we all agree? I hope so ‘cos that’s all I’m going to talk about here – changes! Facebook, by implementing the “universal ‘LIKE’ button” have, in many ways, done something cool. How often have you stared at a “please complete your personal profile” form and thought ‘oh gosh, what shall I add in here’… Continue reading