Why you should dump Facebook in 2010
Posted: December 22nd, 2009 | Author: Ron Bronson | Filed under: Social Media, Web 2.0 | Tags: Facebook holidays, Social Media, social services | 9 Comments »You are currently browsing comments. If you would like to return to the full story, you can read the full entry here: “Why you should dump Facebook in 2010”.
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I forgot to add — and this might be an entire post — that it’s also a crutch for businesses. You spend all of this time and energy trying to cultivate this robust social media strategy, when most of the time your web site doesn’t do nearly as good a job of explaining what you do.
So diverting all of that time and content to multiple channels when your main one isn’t getting it done, is probably a really bad use of internal resources.
Ron, great post. So are you thinking about dumping Twitter too? Or do you consider it more of a genuine connecting force, since it’s fairly sparse with features and functionality?
The more I get into Facebook, the more annoying it becomes. As if you can be “interactive” with several hundred friends. Give me a break. Glad to see that it’s not only (old) curmudgeons like me who feel this way.
Well I was going to, but because there are so many contacts I have who I wouldn’t call “socially savvy,” it seems easier to keep it. I do deactivate often though and I recently began testing out a new filter where I basically keep about 50 or so people in the loop and the rest of them just get a basic profile. We’ll see how that works for a bit.
Terrific points, Ron. I agree with Michael, too. Facebook is becoming more and more annoying. (Maybe I’m becoming more and more curmudgeonly.) On my Facebook site, I’ve deactivated my friends listing so people can’t stalk my Facebook friends or see whom I’m friends with. (A couple of female co-workers were contacted by one individual who claimed to be a friend of mine on Facebook but who actually just discovered them from my friends sidebar.) I’m planning to heavily scale back the information currently on the site, which was posted back when FB was fresh and new and available only to those with .edu addresses.
So, I will have a Facebook presence, but it will be a shadow of its former self. I’ll pop on to wish some connections a happy birthday, but probably not much more than that.
But I have a bigger problem in terms of the institutional presence on Facebook. Just as Facebook appears to be jumping the shark, a lot of admins on my campus are going gaga over getting into social media and want to “meet” with me to “bounce some ideas” yada yada. Go figure. Isn’t that just like us in higher ed, to chase after a trend just as it rides off into the sunset?
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I don’t think Facebook is going away that easily.
I keep my Facebook profile strictly private.
Of course when I joined Facebook, there were more business contacts than personal. Now that script is reversed. I put my professional contacts in once friend group and the personal in another, so that they don’t see the full profile.
Now when my professional contacts ask to be my “friend” I suggest that they link up via Twitter or look for my fan page.
Well, there are other people who dream to start social networking sites, so this isn’t the only one for college students. FreezeCrowd will be launching in 2010 for those with school email addresses, so please keep an eye out for it. Our concept is unique in the way you really connect with people in real life through photos. So, you can start a clean slate on a new tool. There’s nothing wrong with trying something new.