Being bored when Facebook is becoming boring.

Development during last weeks on my Facebook stream, it is so obvious, whole Facebook is fading away. Rich content is really missing, my stream is just full pointless announcements about who is who's new friend and who 'likes' which commercial or non-commercial services, pages, pointless groups for just showing off your personal frustrations, racism etc. one word: BORING!

Nowadays Facebook is becoming really boring place and people are also showing it off with their lack of imagination status updates or complete inactivity. What it means for the business built around social media services like Facebook... really bad times. Facebook stocks, sinking down. Social media and Facebook? Train already passed by.

There is also really a lot of people who dislike constant changes on Facebook privacy settings. I also dislike it and I have been seriously considering about deleting (not just deactivating) my Facebook account.

If there will come up really interesting alternatives for Facebook, I will probably do it or atleast deactive the use of my Facebook account. Lot of my Facebook friends have already started the great escape, it is obvious, you can see it on the news stream, it is really dry and boring.

What interesting Facebook is offering for me today? Nothing. Changing the channel now.

Social Media Marketing Map by Gunnar Bender.

This bit hilarious link was found via @juhotunkelo and @tuija.

Acrobat-PDF warning:

https://share.acrobat.com/adc/adc.do?docid=6607d2a3-8abc-4665-a5c6-80b13aed192c

If it feels difficult to view map online, you can also download and/or print it.

Map was created by Dr. Gunnar Bender / www.gunnardender.de / @gunnarbender

Are Digg users actually viewing digged links?

Ok. Many times I have been wondering if Digg users actually view links they are digging. Today I got some kind of proof they don't do it.

This IRAN- Police runs away video got into TOP5 on Digg News section. Right now there is over 400 diggs, but video has been viewed only less than 500 times.

Conclusion: Either Youtube stats are wrong or then Digg users are not really viewing what they are digging. They just digg because others are digging too.

Video clip is over week old, which is really easy to see from Related Videos on Youtube. Original video was uploaded 13.06.2009 to Youtube.

So Digg users digged into TOP5 News something which was over week old. I only can understand this weird scenario by stating that Digg users are not really viewing links they digg. Any comments?

So you want to get loads of hits and comments, write about latest facebook changes.

Facebook made recently big changes to their rss stream, now you can literally see everything. Quizzes, polls, photos, SU thumbings and so on... loads of people are really fed up and they are changing to Twitter.

If you are blogging about social media, web, marketing etc. now it is excellent time to wrote about facebook, because people are interested to read any possible news about changes on facebook layout drama.

Soon all future social media blogging is going to new blog, just be patient, I'm quite busy next couple weeks with other projects.

So you want to get loads of hits and comments, write about latest facebook changes, like I did. ;)


http://mashable.com/2009/03/22/facebook-redesign-revolt/

more mashable - facebook stories... http://mashable.com/category/facebook/

http://www.webpronews.com//topnews/2009/03/19/shocker-facebookers-not-happy-with-redesign

Remember to give your visitors a change for networking.

Let's imagine that you got sudden visitor on your website. A visitor likes your website. So what happens next? Bookmarking your favourite website is really old fashioned way to go.

Probably visitor is looking for possibility to subscribe for feeds and do networking with you, specially if you're both blogging on same niche.

You need to offer this opportunity for networking. It should be available on your website without any extra scrolling or clicking subpages. Best place for offering networking is upper left or right corner on your blog.

I started to use entrecard.com (thanks to kidtechguru for the tip). With Entrecard service, I have already stumbled on interesting blogs, which unfortunately don't offer possibility for networking, I think it is a shame.

Do you think there is missing something important from my website? Please comment and I will check it out.

Catchy headlines create loads of diggs, but we allways end up with same problem.

Do you check link before digging it? Or how you make your decision about digging something?

My strong guess is that most diggers make decision by the headline, if it is catchy, you will digg it.

My strong opinion, there is nowadays too many "top x sites regarding subject y" and other listings. Don't digg them, unless they are really offering something NEW.

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/7_Things_Diggers_Hate_That_Always_Get_Dugg

http://digg.com/comedy/Why_I_ll_never_make_Digg_Popular_2

Monetizing social media : The money to be made is in small purchases.

Lazysupper: the point is:

make it simple.
make it cheap.

it’s like with iPhone apps. iTunes has my data, all i do is enter my password. and i don’t download many apps north of $10, but the stupid crap for 99 cents… why not? it’s less than a Snickers. the money to be made is in small purchases.

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