If you are regular reader of my blog, you’ll know that I’m starting to become more and more disenchanted with Facebook, and more and more enamoured of G+. I’m not alone. I feel like this is a pretty common sentiment […]
A few months back, Facebook introduced a new and more comprehensive way to search on Facebook: Graph Search. Why does this matter? Well, as Facebook increasingly tries to rule the interwebz, they want you to go less and less to […]
Dear Mr. Zuckerberg; First off, I just wanna say, thanks for inventing what is currently the greatest social network in the world. I had lunch with an old friend last week, and although we hadn’t seen each other in about […]
Further to my post from last week, another big trend I’m noticing these days on Facebook is that folks are not posting their link the main status update. Instead, what they’re doing is posting the link in the first comment […]
Up until quite recently, marketing best practices on Facebook said that if you want your posts to be seen, you need to be posting images. First, a quick backstory, and I mean quick, because I’ve written about this extensively in […]
I‘ve written pretty extensively about Facebook contests in the past. The short version is, many people were running contests where a “like” equalled and entry, and they were unaware that was against Facebook’s terms of service. If you got caught […]
Facebook started rolling out new insights in mid-June. I’ve had mine for a while, but it’s only been recently that I’ve had time to play with them, and let me tell you, I’m really impressed. Nerding out on data is […]
Well, the rumours are true! This week, I finally got hashtags on my Facebook. I have long been an outspoken hater of Facebook hashtags. The main reason why was because they are, as I saw recently quoted, “as useless as […]
In one of my other (many) lives, I’m a food blogger, and I was recently assigned to write a piece on restaurants with great patios. I reached out to several of these restaurants via Twitter, and was surprised at the amount of time it […]
I admit, I’ve been on a bit of a tear about autoposting lately. The thing is, the older social media becomes, and the deeper we fall down the rabbit hole, the more people there are that want the “magic social […]