Doing a cleanse of your facebook account: Setting an intention
Monday, June 13, 2011 at 10:44AMDo you ever sit back and really wonder about your Facebook account. What is up with all the "Friends" who you really don't know? What about the ones whose News Feeds you enjoy and cannot imagine leaving—are they really called "Friends" or aren't they really someone you look up to or admire in which case you should be in their fan club? Whatever the feeling you have, remember each of these "Friends" can watch everything you do on Facebook.
Maybe you think that many of them are not paying attention. Probably true. But what about the ones whose names you would never be able to select in a multiple choice question as your friend, yet they post on your Facebook Wall one day that you "have been stalking their page." What?
Looks like there is crazy randomness to these Facebook profile stalker searcher applications. But, once you get hit by one, especially when you know you never searched that person's profile (or even recognize their name), it's easy to feel a little freaked out.
What is Facebook really about for you?
- Networking for business
- Connecting and sharing with friends whom you already know
- Learning more about other cultures through strangers
- Practicing how social media works so you can educate others
Regardless, it's probably a good idea to go through your list of friends periodically to clear the air, so to speak. Set an intention for your Facebook goals. As you evolve and form and re-form your intentions on what Facebook means to you, it's important to see your true audience. [This holds true for all of your social media channels.]
Maybe the act of thinking about this notion will instead engage you to contact each of your existing friends to reconnect.
It goes without saying though that
if you do not know your Facebook "Friend" and their unknown presence does not feel comfortable to you, by all means do not feel pressured to stay linked to them on the internet...
A lot of people ask me about this one.
And remember that the Facebook Business Page is the way to make the most of Facebook for promoting your business.
© 2011 R.E.L. Copywriting
Reader Comments (4)
Facebook is indeed a little scary sometimes.Which is why I believe that you should only add the people you know to your friends list. Whereas networking is a crucial part in this global village of ours,we cannot just abandon online safety and wait around.Thank you for this.
I completely agree. i've experimented a bit and see that the Personal Profile and the Business Page (or Profile) should be treated completely differently.
I have a huge family and because I moved from England to Canada Facebook is a wonderful way for me to keep up with their news and see photos of new babies being born and such but, they have friends of friends etc and I get a lot of requests that I may have 15 others in my list that connect to them but, I don't know them from Adam myself. I used to not worry too much about it all until folks I knew began to get comuter viruses from all the apps there. Now, I ignore all 'add me' friend requests, unless they really are a friend of mine and, I also don't 'ok' any of their apps. No way 3rd party or more are having my private info, enough people out there already have it. LOL
Good info here thanks... and..thanks for visiting my blog and the lovely comment too.
I'm in the yoga world, which is very prevalent on Facebook worldwide. I started accepting friend requests from strangers just because they were into yoga. I started to realize that eventually many people had 300 people in common with me and would then want to be my friend too (which grew exponentially) until I had thousands of friends. One day, I removed all the strangers and created a generic yoga account and moved all those "strangers" over there, where the onslaught of friend requests from strangers continued. My personal profile is now only containing those I know... and the Yoga Robin page? Well, it's the one I mention here :) I had to migrate it to a Business Page eventually to stop all the friend requests and crazy app postings and millions of event invites.
Nice to hear your story... Thanks for stopping by -robin