Girl fired after facebook picture shows swastika
Facebook is everywhere, On the news, at home, office, public places. Facebook has had some very good reports of itself, and also some really bad ones. The latest one is of a girl getting fired when a picture was found of her holding a Swastika next to a passed out man.
A New England Patriots cheerleader was kicked off the squad this week after photos surfaced on Facebook showing her posing with a passed-out man covered in offensive markings.
Caitlin Davis, 18, lost her job after pictures appeared showing her holding a Sharpie marker up to an unconscious man with offensive graffiti all over him, including two swastikas and crude drawings of male genitalia, the Boston Herald reported Wednesday.
Davis was booted from her place on the squad after Tuesday.
The photographs, which were first published on Onblastatlast.com, were taken at a Halloween party at Boston College.
Makes you wonder about the people you work with.
Build your own online network
There are many ways in witch you can build your online network. Social media sites, services, mail, websites, blogs and many more.
I just started using Linkedin the other day, and found a whole bunch of my clients on there. With Linked in you can find other businesses, share yours and contact people.
I use Gmail, and find that the Chat feature is great when your clients need to chat to you and ask you something. It saves money and makes it simple to communicate with them. And the whole conversation gets saved.
Facebook is also a very good place for you to start building an online network. Create a group, Invite people and post on there whats happening with you/your company.
Technorati, digg, stuble all those social media sites create opportunity to make contacts and share your site/blog/company with people. Sign up to some of them and connect to the world.
If you are interested in following me on facebook, Join my group.
Blogging becomes personal
There are so many blogs out on the internet at the moment, and its growing rapidly every day. some create a blog, post a few things and forget about it, others write something every day but never tracks the visitors or gets in contact with its readers.
The more I blog and learn about the internet the more I become aware that Blogging is much more than a hobby. For the long time bloggers, it becomes personal.
How, Personal?
I use my real identity online, I don’t have any cryptic names, or anything that will make me unknown. By doing that I promote my blog and my online presense. I also start making friends and meeting people that either blog, or do the same kind of work I do. Sometimes when I blog its part of a previous conversation I’ve had with one of the people I know online.
Either someone wanting to know about networking, emails, or whatever else.
Through Facebook I meet the people who read my blog, Amatomu, twitter. All of those mediums I use to personally connect to the people who read my blog.
Rumors of a Facebook Music Store
Facebook Music store? It sounds interesting.
I found this article last night while browsing around:
Ars Technica reports: As anyone who has held up a lighter alongside friends during a second encore can tell you, social networking and music are meant to sing together. MySpace reminded everyone of its roots last month with the launch of MySpace Music, and inside sources say that Facebook may finally rock out with its own duet soon.
Music has always been one of MySpace’s shining features, so well-known that it’s part of a supposed social networking divide. Long before News Corp. purchased it, MySpace became the place for independent–and increasingly mainstream–musicians to build a community with their fans. Now, with last month’s introduction of a 5 million-strong catalog of downloadable and streamable songs from all the major labels and (arguably not enough) indies, MySpace finally took its next logical leap into becoming a full-blown social hub for music.
Do you think that a Facebook music store will give Itunes a run for its money?
Facebook uses credential specific adds
I recently got engaged, and when I changed my facebook status, I noticed I got alot of adds displaying wedding cakes, suite hire, car hire, flowers for your wedding day ect.
I thought it was just coincidence, but the more I saw them the more I started wondering, does facebook show me these adds because my status says Engaged? I did some digging and this is what I found about facebook adds.
I signed up to do some advertising with facebook, I never went through with the thing, I would’ve cost me a little too much. But some of the Questions that I was asked, already answered my question. Does facebook target a certain group of people?
Well… yes.
I was asked if I want to advertise with people in south africa alone or other countries, is it for males of females, whats the age range, ect.
I think that by targeting a certain group of people on face book really makes a difference. If I was not engaged, I would never have clicked on those ad’s and gone looking for flowers, cakes ect.
For the advertiser
Its a great way to narrow down your target audience. Instead of sending your wedding cake adds to all billion or so users, you will send it only to those who are actually interested in what you have. A 16 year old kid will not click on adds that sell wedding stuff. They will want to click on adds that sell games, movies ect.
For the public
You won’t get spammed or bothered by anything that you are not interested in. In that way, you won’t be mislead. I for one hate it when I get told there is something that interests me, but I’m not even remotely interested in it.
I think that its really good, and Facebook should promote it more and encourage the people do use the criteria function. It saves time and money.
