Direct Marketing Observations

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Is Being Too Social Ruining Social Media?

Direct Marketing Observations

The Big boys i.e. the Facebooks, the Youtubes, The Twitters and even the Myspace’s of the world enjoyed the rush. When social first came on the scene, the amount of networks were few and far between. Eventually more and more copycat type of networks emerged as the boom spread far and wide.

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The Four Semi-Truths of Social Media

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. ——————– Mike, a friend and a CEO of a cool little boutique ad agency , used to use Twitter, but then claimed that it was too nebulous. ——————– Remember MySpace? Semi-truth #3: What happened to MySpace can happen to any social network.

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Should Your Social Networks Mingle?

Direct Marketing Observations

Social media sites that are currently supported include, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, FriendFeed and Flickr. Twitter is your peer network. I don’t want my Facebook friends to receive my Twitter updates. Linkedin vs. Twitter vs. Facebook vs. Myspace. i.e. Facebook is family and friends.

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It’s Time to Rethink Facebook

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Here’s a list of contenders/pretenders “other” than Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Snap, in no particular order. There were things like it already such as MySpace and or Friendster, but we had seen nothing quite like it. So what is currently out there that might replace Facebook? Perhaps it’s VR or AR based.

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