Yes you read it right! I have no idea, so I am going to say it:
Just WHAT is Facebook really used for???
This morning I was watching Fox & Friends and one of the topics was the movie that is being made about the founder of Facebook. He is a 30-something Harvard Grad who, as a geeky, unpopular student, hacked into his fellow female classmate's computers and stole their photos to put on HIS website so all the guys could vote on who was the "Hottest Babe"!
So, this is the origin of the site that now has 4Mil members and continues to add to the 30 year old multi-billionare's (4-6Bil!)bank account!!! He has literally built a website that is used today for reasons that truly escape me. This is what I have heard you can use Facebook for:
- Reaching out to old friends
- Making new friends
- Hooking-up
- Keeping track of your kids
- Keeping track of your spouse
- Tracking down old school-mates
- Flirting
- ..and on and on.
NOW, I am all for thinking outside the box for new ideas to make money!....And more power to this guy who seems to have grown up a bit in order to give the proper attention to the social website that he started while still in college and congrats to him for being able to keep the money flowing in to his coffers.
However, I still wonder why Social Networking is suggested as a critical part of your business plans---this or any other social website (Activerain excluded!!!). IT IS A REAL STRETCH TO ME to see how this activity or activities can contribute to my bottom line!
I have a hard time keeping up with all the work involved in doing business in real estate today; it is really time consuming to be here right now writing this, as a mater of fact! I am a member of Facebook and I had a former classmate from years ago, touch base with me and we began a conversation via email--his wife of many years got suspicious and got CRAZY by stalking me on the internet--writing me poison-pen emails and spreading rumors about me "taking" her husband away from her!!! Meanwhile, he had just reached out to find out what my sister and I had been up to for the past ____ years!!!
I have watched as a fellow broker sat in our office and showed me how he was "planting" for the season on his farm on some website---he was spending huge amounts of time doing this frivilous past-time and his business certainly did not profit from this activity!
So, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE add to the list above so that I, and many others, can finally be convinced that Facebook, Twitter and dozens of other "social" websites really do work for DOING BUSINESS!!!
I would love to be able to finally and completely understand the nature of these other sites where you can get "hit-upon", "Hooked-up" with and in general, create a world of social activities that appear to me to be totally removed from DOING BUSINESS!!!
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