Quick Social Website Commentary

I had an interesting conversation with a gal this week and she shared with me some insight and perspective on the whole social media websites that she had learned from a recent webinar. Perhaps this may help clarify a purpose to  websites like Twitter and Facebook and help you get the most out of these medias.

Have you every invited a guest into your home and over coffee or a nice home cooked meal shared about your life and got to know each a bit better? Perhaps the relationship would continue after that night and you would keep in touch just to see how things were going or to inquire about their views and opinions. This is similar to your social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn. They connect and invite people into your world and allow them to get to know you better. Use these sites to build friendship and trust.

Twittering these days?  Twitter is similar to walking down the grocery aisle and meeting a familiar aqantince or friend for  a short, bottom-line on how things are going. You don’t need a whole life’s story just the bare bones and quick hello. Use these sites to update clients and friends on things that you would tell them about in passing. This medium is greatly abused by useless information posts.