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If you haven’t jumped onto the social media bandwagon, you had better get on or you’ll fall behind. Most people are active on at least one social media site, if not several, because they realize the benefits of it.
The problem is that people seem to neglect building their profile. Brent Csutoras in the above video discusses the importance of developing your profile since it is the first thing others look at to find out about you. A person trying to research you will look at your interests, groups, beliefs, and your activities before pursuing you for business purposes.
Todd Malicoat of Stuntdubl.com, says there are two factors you should focus on when building your profile:
1. Getting great friends
2. Getting great content
Todd also adds that you should have a fast RSS reader to submit stories to and strive to be the first to release a story.
The two areas that Brent emphasizes are:
1. Your actual profile
2. Your activity
To further explain your actual profile, people want to have a current understanding of you, so have a recent picture and description posted. As for your activity, people will be looking to see how active you are and what you’re active in.
I think Chris Winfield best sums up what Todd and Brent are trying to say: “Don’t forget the social part in social media.”
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I love social media. It’s a great way to get traffic, business and natural links!
in this world, at this time where as we need to protect information due to how much information is easily accessible to anyone with even a little experience. WHAT ARE PEOPLE THINKING? or should I say NOT THINKING.
Is it the persuit of fame? popularity? lets face it, the US thrive and develop this personality flaw at an early age in their schools, the UK was never about popularity contests before social sites came up from the gutter.
It is killing real socialising with the first in a long line of victims being the local pub, they are shutting down by the 1,000’s each week.
The media airbrush everything and everyone making a NORMAL person feel inadequate to the point of depression.
The people in the know DO NOT use Evil social networking sites and keep ALL their data and information private, their habits such as what they buy, what sites they visit, who they know, allowing anyone who bears some sort of grudge to really mess with their lives and obtain more VERY PRIVATE information. The fact a nutcracker who simply dislikes your picture can become obsessed to the point of destroying your life, they know where you work, your work mates, your social habits and friends, the friends they know and speak to and much more allowing them to do you a lot of damage.
I put this to the test and within one day I manage to get a hold of the mobile number and address of some very private Celebrities.
It’s that easy and it is that SAD people seem to be tickled by all this rubbish.
I urge you all to boycott these sites NOW, They are cooperate organisations only doing this for profit at YOU expense, Bebo was sold for £750 million, WHY, please ask yourself and spread the word as if we do nothing t hen our culture is DOOMED.
I think it should be clarifies that we are discussing profiles that you would use in social news aggregation sites. Not when you make your own Facebook or Linkedin profiles.
I disagree. I think there is a solid population of highly active and engaged users who often go too far in fleshing out their profiles. So in a lot of ways, I feel there is still a lot of cyberjunk in that space but thanks to it’s high searchability, I don’t find it horribly difficult to drill into content and media rich and relevant profiles.
Have to agree with the comments above, as much good as there can be from these sites, a minority bad thing can over ride all the goodness
I remaining very reluctant to put too much detail, these sites are very good tools for a number of things, both good and bad. There are just tools and not an end to themselves… I treat them like a business card, almost interesting, almost informative with the distinct ability to get more information if desired.
Cheers,
Coach D
http://www.ParentsStartHere.com
I don’t agree, I’ve never had anyone make decisions on my employment, or interests based on my facebook profile or my myspace. Providing REAL information is what identity theives are looking for… So feel free to provide your real interests, sure even post your family photos… Let the bad guys out there use it for whatever purposes… I know this from REAL experience in the field..