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Facebook: The ultimate connector

I’ve been a user of Facebook for over a year.  At first it started out as just connecting with my family and friends.  Now, it’s grown to connecting with friends of friends, business associates, and extended family.  Oh, and don’t forget the long lost high school friends.  The impact of Facebook has been interesting in my life.

I now regularly communicate with family members and friends that I normally would not see or talk to on a regular basis.  Now, I’ve got regular ongoing conversations about random events in life from a wide variety of friends and family.  The conversations are not necessarily deep, but they are revealing.  They get a peek at my life through status updates, photos and commentary, and I get the same in return.  You could say facebook is the ultimate connector.  At any given time, any of my connections can see what I’m up to, or  insert commentary about a photo or comment on my status, and I can do the same in reverse.  In the end, Facebook has created a new social circle made of up random friends, family, and associates all interacting with each other towards me.  Perhaps, it’s the narcissist factor, and how much it feeds that “need” of people that makes Facebook so addicting and popular.  Whatever it is, it’s by far the site I spend the most time at each day.

With that in mind, we launched a Facebook page for our business earlier this year.  I’ve got it setup to automatically collect our feed.  So, when a new item is posted to our website, it is automatically posted to Facebook.  We’ve currently got 21 “fans” on Facebook.  Most of them are friends, family or employees.  I’d like to figure out a way to leverage Facebook to create a legitimate financial return, and obtain more “fans” that are  on the fringe rather than in the inner circle of our business.  In the end it’s all about notoriety, and being seen, and seen being.

If you’re interested in connecting on Facebook, feel free to add me as a friend [my profile].  See you on facebook!