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javabird

Facebook and marketing

Jan 17, 2009 18:16

Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Yammer, Twitter, Tagged, and on and on plus Social Influence Marketing for companies trying to advertise "where we are." Do you think there will be a point (for Facebook in particular) where the marketing saturation will cause people to abandon the social network?

work, internet

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Absolutely mechanic79 January 20 2009, 13:52:18 UTC

It would be like swimming in a polluted lake. People will swim ashore and look elsewhere.

ticklebruises January 23 2009, 03:37:03 UTC

Yes. I'm already up to my ears in people knowing where I am. Especially high school friends and a bad ex. The only reason why I haven't deleted my MySpace account is because I need it for work.

Ooooh...light bulb. Maybe I can just delete it and start a new account that is totally not associated with me at all? *walks off to simmer on it*

ticklebruises January 23 2009, 03:38:07 UTC

Oh yeah, and where did you get your fancy new theme? I think I need to change mine up so that tags show up on each entry. I'm a non-paying old user, if that matters.

javabird January 28 2009, 14:13:18 UTC

I'm not sure if the new layout is for paying members or not (I am...though it truly doesn't offer much more than the free account, I am sad to say. You get more space for pics, but the upload and manage tools are for crap, so why would a person use this instead of Photobucket or Flicker? There's a few other minuscule perks, but all in all...they need to up the value prop for being a member). In any case, when you go into the manage > customize sections you can then look at themes. I did a show "all available to me" and then scrolled all the way to the bottom and browsed backward. That way I mostly skipped stuff I'd seen. I like this one because the tag cloud is on the right and is in a larger font than most of the other layouts. I also liked this one because it is the most liquid. The majority of layouts have visual blocks that don't change with the screen size or any content that you've uploaded. I hate it when I upload a photo and it is set to the side and overlaps the color blocks. Looks crappy, but the design isn't liquid, so ( ... )