How many times have you bee Rickrolled? Its happend to me quite a bit. Rickrolling is when someone is tricked into opening up Rick Astley's music video for "Never gonna give you up." You think you're going to watch the video you clicked on, but really you're about to be rickrolled. I was reading on Mashable.com that you are no longer able to get the original Rick Astley video anymore because of copywriting issues. Will it still be a true Rickroll if it's not the original music video? What do you think?
http://www.mashable.com/2010/02/24/they-killed-rickroll/
Another article I found on Mashable.com talked about creating a Facebook landing page for your business. Social media networking websites are becoming increasingly popular these days and they can be very powerful sites to advertise on. All types of businesses are creating their own Facebook pages and then adding as many fans as they can to increase awareness of their business. Take Best Buy for example. They have their very own Facebook page and if other Facebook users like shopping at Best Buy, they add them as their friend. There are many other ways for businesses to advertise on these websites, but that's just one way that mashable.com talked about.
http://www.mashable.com/2010/02/22/build-facebook-landing-page/
The last article I read on Mashable.com talks about how much time we spend on Facebook. Everyone knows that Facebook is a timesink, but did you know that on average people spend more time on Facebook than they do on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft, Wikipedia, and Amazon combined? The average Facebook user spends 421 minutes per month on Facebook. That's 14 minutes a day. I actually thought it should be more than that. I see people on Facebook for longer than 14 minutes during class each day. Either way, Facebook is where the majority of people spend their time on the internet. Interesting.
http://www.mashable.com/2010/02/16/facebook-nielsen-stats/
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I also noticed the Facebook landing page article and love the fact that it is all laid out for you there. In my opinion, creating this can almost be better than your businesses website. I mean the whole point of social media today for business is to build an audience. If you can create a good looking landing page, maybe with an intro video, you’re immediately benefiting because they can fan your business right there, so you can send them new updates. Who needs email if you've got fans on Facebook.
ReplyDeleteThe Facebook landing article was interesting. Right now it doesn't apply to me but for company's trying to get their name out there it probably helps a lot. Especially if they don't know much about the internet and social media sites. People do spend way to much time on Facebook also. I am one of them and I know I waste to much time on there. I think many people spend more then 14 mins a day on it though.
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