“I felt like a dirty marketer. You can’t have in depth, meaningful relationships with 2500 people. All redundant stuff from my blog. All talk, no interaction and I was using it for those means…not to interact, but to keep an audience. It was selfish, and that, my friends, is how I lost my innocence on it.”
Here are a three thoughts:
- I recently passed the 1,000 friends mark on Facebook and I am closing in on this same number on Twitter as well . . . I think about deleting both of them everyday. I don’t really use them to connect with people at all, I just use them to keep an audience, just like Anne talked about. I think I might keep my Facebook account but cut back to just my family and a few friends. keeping the limit at around 100. Thoughts?
- John’s post strikes home with me because I am the guy at my church that he is writing about. I am not the top dog at my church, I have very little influence and most of the time around Central I just put my head down and work hard at my job. But online I have more Twitter friends, Facebook friends, RSS subscriptions, and hits than almost everyone on our staff, with the exception of our Senior Pastor & Senior Leader. I am currently wrestling with this blog. I want to be able to have conversations about both my personal journey as well as ministry related subjects. How do I balance the personal brand I have with the brand of the ministry that I work for? Can I balance the two? Or do I pick one or the other?
- Knowing that more and more social networking websites are integrating into every corner of our lives I can not help but want to turn it all off. I know that deep down we all desire our 15 minutes of fame and that having hundreds if not thousands of friends in various places like Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, etc brings a pseudo-celebrity status in our own minds. But is it really worth it? In a world where social networking is becoming a “must” if you want to stay ahead of the curve, how do you leverage the personal and business side of things? How do you protect your privacy?
